But Iowa is a homogenous and geographically simple state, and its system was not copied.
Apple then had to clarify matters so that consumers would be aware that Samsung had not copied.
Christopher Columbus might never have sailed to America in 1492 had his cartographer brother Bartholomeo not copied some Portuguese maps from a secret archive.
Hei is surprised that European competitors have not copied the products.
The problem that confronted Dr Whiten and Dr Boesch was how to disentangle which of chimpanzees' many behaviour patterns are genetically instinctive, which are learnt by individuals in isolation (and so are not cultural, because not copied from others) and which are culturally transmitted (by animals copying one another).
Unfortunately these innovations have not been copied elsewhere, so the foot-dragging continues.
The courts in the UK took a rather dim view of this claim as they had ruled that Samsung had not so copied.
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Since the last common ancestor of the two species lived more than 400, 000 years ago (see following story) fire-control is probably at least as old as that, for they lived in different parts of the world, and so could not have copied each other.
The trust said the errors had been introduced because data from its previous bookings system had not been correctly copied.
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When I left New York for two weeks to visit bureaus in Pakistan and Afghanistan, where we assume that communications may be monitored, I was not to be copied on message traffic about the project.
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They noted that although it was not illegal for the firm to have copied over data belonging to non-users, the problem was that it did not delete the information after running the friend-identification check.
Mere workers at the coal-face, the artists who laboured away on the comic books that Mr Lichtenstein copied, did not think much of his paintings.
And if that were not bad enough, they copied it incompetently, failing to charge the full price of power, or to set up an orderly regulatory structure, or to develop capital markets to fund new investment.
That's scarcely more tangible than a man's thoughts--a thing to be copied and shared, not sold.
But writers having their work illegally copied and sold is not: this is the beginnings of the assertion of the basic IP rights that we all hold dear.
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While analysts would argue that everything can be copied, that is not entirely true. iTunes is by far the largest and most successful online music store in the world.
Fakes usually do not have an IMEI code or have copied another one.
Although Leon Botstein, president of Bard College and music director of the American Symphony Orchestra, finds the Venezuelan state-funded, national system of youth orchestras admirable, he does not believe the model can be identically copied in the United States.
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So while China's size will be a huge opportunity for Chinese people and the rest of the world as they consume more, it might not mean China and its customs will be copied all over the world, as has been the case for America over the past 50 years since it became so important.
Not all the firm's recruitment methods were widely copied, though.
The interesting thing about this case is that the emails discussing the hiding of assets and the offshore trust were not even directed to Husband, but he was merely copied on the emails.
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This was precisely because they could not convince the judge that the site had a hand in directly distributing illegally copied material.
Since the American computer-maker produces no musical content of its own, unlike Sony, it does not find itself torn between protecting its copyright and making gadgets that allow music to be copied and swapped.
Surprisingly for Rousselot, Simone was not at all surprised by the revelation that he was a writer or that Morini had plagiarized or copied his work, or freely adapted two of his novels to make his two best films.
Competition from new ports, such as Oman's Salalah, has not stopped growth at Jebel Ali, the Dubai container terminal and free zone that all the others have copied.
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