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Intellectual property under fire at the WCIT 2002
News A series of apparently unrelated comments at the World Congress on IT (WCIT) 2002 signal an increased questioning about the legitimacy of current intellectual and copyright laws in the digital age. It is not viable to try to enforce intellectual...
[March 1, 2002, 9:34]
Intellectual property laws in flux
News Big corporations are working diligently and successfully to expand intellectual property laws in the digital age -- a trend that's chipping away at individual rights. Yet another panellist, Randall Davis of Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
[April 7, 2000, 10:39]
Intellectual Property Management and Protection in MPEG Standards
White Papers Gradually, MPEG is moving from defining hooks to proprietary systems (MPEG-2, MPEG-4 Version 1) to more encompassing standardization in Intellectual Property Management and Protection. The MPEG specific term for DRM is ‘Intellectual Property...
[December 26, 2003, 2:13]
Intellectual Property Office refreshes web presence
News The Intellectual Property Office is to relaunch its website. Among them are a dedicated area for professional users, improved access to consultations and new interactive features to provide education and raise awareness of intellectual property...
[December 1, 2008, 8:43]
AMD moves to protect intellectual property
News Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has announced the appointment of its first vice president of intellectual property, bringing over Motorola veteran Harry Wolin for the office. Intellectual property is becoming increasingly important in the market for...
[September 5, 2000, 12:42]
IGT Protects Irreplaceable Intellectual Capital With Integrated Peribit Networks, VERITAS, and Network Appliance Solution
White Papers The company also wanted to safeguard intellectual property and enable fast backup/restore/DR. A world leader in the design and manufacture of slot machines, IGT is a $4 billion company that employs 5,500 people.
[July 20, 2007, 1:00]
US announces global intellectual-property plan
News The Bush administration on Wednesday announced new plans to expand its crackdown on intellectual-property infringement overseas. During California visits with high-tech and movie industry representatives, Commerce Department secretary Carlos...
[September 22, 2005, 10:35]
Intellectual property: Can IT employers control it?
News Cameron Murphy, president of the NSW Council for Civil Liberties, said an extension of companies claiming rights to intellectual property has been in the terms of employment contracts with staff. I think people are being compelled to give away...
[July 17, 2002, 10:20]
Persistent Protection of Intellectual Property and Other Confidential Information
White Papers The attendee will also learn best practices for implementing persistent, dynamic protection of sensitive documents and intellectual property. With EMC Documentum Information Rights Management, content owners can control, secure, and track sensitive...
[April 25, 2009, 1:23]
So how do you protect "intellectual property" ?
Talkback The issue here is that intellectual property (IP) is not easy to protect. Many moons ago a Judge in the UK threw a case of 'copyright' out because he could not read with the naked eye(i.e.see") the code in a chip.
[August 24, 2009, 10:56]
Intellectual property battles will wound Linux
News As the battle escalates with SCO upping the ante -- seeking more than $3bn (£1.78bn) in damages for alleged copying of proprietary Unix intellectual property into Linux -- deep throats in the IX biz (Unix, Linux) are talking and, as reported...
[June 18, 2003, 16:05]
So how do you protect "intellectual property" ?
Talkback The issue here is that intellectual property (IP) is not easy to protect. Many moons ago a Judge in the UK threw a case of 'copyright' out because he could not read with the naked eye(i.e.see") the code in a chip.
[August 14, 2009, 16:45]
Law Firm Leverages Intellectual Capital With New Document Management System
White Papers Eisenhower & Carlson's electronic library of more than 350,000 documents is a significant intellectual asset for the law firm. But with the limitations of its older proprietary document management system, the attorneys and support staff couldn't...
[December 2, 2008, 23:00]
Government intellectual property under scrutiny
News These have been developed in North America and set out a framework within which intellectual-property (IP) owners can make their work available for reuse, but a set of UK specific licences were launched in March.
[June 30, 2005, 16:05]
Government launches review of intellectual property laws
News The British government has launched a review of the laws protecting intellectual property (IP), an issue of growing importance to the technology industry. Rows over intellectual property have dominated the technology industry this year.
[December 2, 2005, 13:10]
Critics delay vote on EU intellectual property law
News A proposed European Union law strengthening law-enforcement capabilities against intellectual-property violations has been delayed again, amid ongoing criticism that its implementation would criminalise many innocuous activities and harm European...
[November 19, 2003, 16:30]
Tech firms lead intellectual property stakes
News The new statistics show that technology firms are patenting more intellectual property than ever before with business method patents a particular area of growth. New figures from the United States Patent and Trademark office show that IBM leads the...
[March 20, 2001, 6:49]
British Library lends itself to intellectual-property wisdom
Leader Another constituent is the Library of the Patent Office, which has been publishing legally protected intellectual property for more than 150 years. Derek Wyatt MP, head of the All-Party Parliamentary Internet Group, has had an idea.
[March 15, 2006, 14:35]
2001: Protecting intellectual property
News Taking confidential intellectual property with you as you leave employment. Even so, employers here need to be extremely cautious when cutting the jobs of people who may handle significant intellectual property, Robertson says: "That includes...
[December 30, 2001, 6:31]
Open Source Software: The Success of an Alternative Intellectual Property Incentive Paradigm
White Papers Intellectual property protection in the United States is based on an incentive system. The protections provided by intellectual property law are designed to produce economic incentives to "Promote the progress of science and useful arts.
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