Singapore provides a persuasive model for a strong system of intellectual property rights.
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McCaw also has intellectual property rights to a system that connects low-orbit satellite systems like Iridium with midaltitude projects like ICO.
Microsoft claims that Google's Android operating system infringes its intellectual property rights.
Businesses need a robust system that protects intellectual property and punishes infringers.
After joining the WTO in late 2001, China set up a nationwide court system for dealing with intellectual property right issues.
We found a defender of the patent system in the leading intellectual property lawyer Guy Burkill QC, who has acted for some of the giants of the mobile phone industry.
"Bayer is committed to protecting its patents for Nexavar and will rigorously continue to defend our intellectual property rights within the Indian legal system, " the company said in a statement.
The Graedons noted that while the active ingredient of the drug goes off patent, the pharmaceutical chemistry behind the extended delivery system may still be the intellectual property of the brand-name manufacturer.
"Bayer is committed to protecting its patents for Nexavar and will rigorously continue to defend our intellectual property rights within the Indian legal system, " the company said in a statement quoted by the Associated Press.
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As a place to do business, the United States offers a hardworking, diverse, and educated workforce, strong protection of intellectual property rights, a predictable and transparent legal system, relatively low taxes, highly developed infrastructure, and access to the world's most lucrative consumer market.
Universities have complained that the current A-level system does not stretch pupils sufficiently or give them the intellectual independence and curiosity needed for degree-level study.
They came back with recommendations that included joining the World Trade Organization, passing laws to protect intellectual property, improving the telecom infrastructure and beefing up the education system.
Northern Europe has the edge, thanks to an inviting combination of less bureaucracy, a more developed legal system, better accounting systems and easier ways to transfer intellectual property, says Marco Da Rin, associate professor in finance at Tilburg University in the Netherlands.
That is, in fact, the heart of the intellectual debate: although there are clearly dangers involved in freeing a financial system, the alternatives may be far worse.
In the past politicians mostly left patent policy to specialists, since it seemed arcane and technical, but as intellectual property has grown in importance the flaws in Europe's patent system have become more glaring.
The dispute coincides with Microsoft's efforts to force smartphone makers to pay it fees for the use of intellectual properties it claims ownership to, and which are used by Google's Android system.
Rather than enacting hasty laws to protect a system that people feel justified in violating, we should consider a better approach to intellectual property.
Both facts on their own represent intellectual and ideological milieus which are decidedly unconducive to creating appreciation for the virtues of the market system.
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And the first rumblings of a rights-management system for controlling the sharing of physical things are appearing: The IP-hoarding firm Intellectual Ventures received a patent in October for a 3-D printer feature that blocks the creation of verboten objects.
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While the intellectual origins of the corporate state go back much further, the first serious attempt to implement such a system was in 1920s Italy by Benito Mussolini.
On June 20, 2011 a three-judge panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision demonstrating the way in which the U.S. legal system continues to struggle with the digital revolution, a revolution that is undermining securities regulation, intellectual property law, and even the basics of tort law.
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The cost of this intellectual hegemony has been that Congress has had very little to draw on by way of credible alternatives to improving our system.
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They returned with recommendations that included joining the World Trade Organization, passing laws to protect intellectual property, improving the telecom infrastructure, changing 25 laws to make doing business easier and beefing up the education system.
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