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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"Intellectual Property (IP)"”.
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Unmasking Masks An Analysis of Psychological Physical and Virtual Masks as applied to Intellectual Property(IP) Character Design in Branding and Marketing Strategies
… the increasing cultural and commercial impact of IP characters in media and branding, particularly in East Asia. Positioning IP characters as contemporary "masks," this thesis argues that they not only reflect but also construct symbolic and affective identities in a digital–consumer context. …
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The effect of stronger intellectual property protection on technological innovation in developing countries: the case of Lesotho
Intellectual property (IP) is one of the legal subjects which is increasingly receiving attention, but about which little is generally known outside specialised legal circles. 1 This is because IP in itself has always been an integral part of the general economic social and cultural development …
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Commercialisation of traditional knowledge in South Africa : whether the existing intellectual property framework encourages commercialisation
The current available modes for protecting Intellectual Property (IP) in the Republic of South Africa (RSA) are Patents, Trade Secrets, Copyrights, Trademarks and Industrial Design. Common law remedies are also available to parties whose rights have been infringed. The legislations governing these …
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Commercialisation of traditional knowledge in South Africa: whether the existing intellectual property framework encourages commercialisation.
Intellectual Property today as internationally recognised covers patents, industrial designs, copyright, trademarks, know-how and confidential information. 1 The current available modes for protecting Intellectual Property (IP) in the Republic of South Africa (RSA) are Patents, Trade Secrets, …
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Low-Power Reconfigurable Digital Signal Processing
… systems. This is based on the concept of DAT and intellectual property (IP) core generators. Energy-optimum parameters are obtained via DAT, and are fed into IP core generators, which generate a synthesizable VHDL description of the IP core. The IP cores are synthesized via commercial logic …
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Intellectual property protection for e-commerce business methods in South Africa : envisioning an equitable model for SMEs in the tourism industry
This thesis examines the intellectual property (IP) protection of the functional aspects of e-commerce business methods, which are embedded in the methods' underlying computer programs. It considers how South Africa can achieve an equitable balance between creators' interests in securing …
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The legal and political imperatives for proposed amendments of the South African Patents Act to implement TRIPS flexibilities and enhance the framework for access to medicines
… Africans to access the essential medicines, intellectual property (IP) is one of them. This dissertation considers some of opportunities open to South Africa through international IP flexibilities, which are aimed at safeguarding public health rights against the sometimes access-restricting …
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Dynamic Module Library Generation for FPGA-based Run-Time Reconfigurable Systems
… applications at run-time using pre-compiled Intellectual Property (IP) from a module library. The need for both flexible module placement and custom inter-module communication is mostly ignored by existing modular run-time reconfiguration approaches and few existing tool flows for module …
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System identification for black-box macro-modeling with Loewner matrix framework
Macro-modeling is important to protect intellectual property (IP) for manufacturers. With the current and growing complexity of modern electronics circuitry, algorithms that enable accurate and fast simulation are desirable. Vector fitting has been used in the industry for years for black-box …
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Runtime Intellectual Property Protection on Programmable Platforms
… (FPGAs) can accommodate complex system-on-chip designs and require extensive intellectual-property (IP) support. However, current IP protection mechanisms in FPGAs are limited, and do not reach beyond whole-design bitstream encryption. This work presents an architecture and protocol for …
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Extracting product opportunities from intellectual property portfolios : from patent to product idea
Companies and research institutes maintain large intellectual property portfolios, which are considered company assets and require significant investments to maintain. This thesis looks at the potential to extract value from such portfolios through new product development to offset this capital …
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Hardware Trojan Detection via Golden Reference Library Matching
… proliferation of hardware Trojans in third party Intellectual Property (IP) designs, the issue of hardware security has risen to the forefront of computer engineering. Because of the miniscule size yet devastating effects of hardware Trojans, few detection methods have been presented that …
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Software industry in India : product and intellectual property focus
… that can help foster Software Product and Intellectual Property (IP) focus.
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The Role of Intellectual Property Law in Promoting Economic Growth for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Tanzania
… thesis examines the role played by the law of intellectual property in promoting the economy of the state. The general argument is that the small and medium enterprises sector (SMEs) in Tanzania has not fully exploited the benefits of the intellectual property and as such, they continue to be …
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An Examination of National Factors That Influence Levels of Perceived Intellectual Property Protection
… paper analyzes factors that influence perceived intellectual property (IP) protection, as approximated by a sub-index of the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report. The study is conducted for 134 countries from 1999-2009. The results suggest that more developed countries will have …
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The Principles of Territoriality - A Study in Public and Private International Law, Intellectual Property, and International Arbitration
The principle of territoriality is often invoked as a self-evident, universally acknowledged concept in various areas of the law. Yet, there is not one, but several principles of territoriality. Not only does territoriality have different meanings in different disciplines, but it is sometimes …
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RESEARCH ON THE COPYRIGHT VALUE OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DRAMAS
… Separation, have become widely popular, making intellectual property (IP) one of the hottest areas of the surge of IP copyright investment. The “Internet Plus” era, supported by big data technology and the entertainment industry, especially film and television, is transforming production from a …
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A critical analysis of the protection of traditional knowledge within the Namibian legal system
… paper examines Traditional Knowledge (TK) and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR’s)6within the Namibian context. It further examines whether the protection under the current Namibian intellectual property (IP) framework sufficiently protects all types of indigenous TK against exploitation. The …
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Evaluation of the colossal electroresistance (CER) effect and its application in the non-volatile Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM)
… emerged to join the race. The underlying principle of an RRAM device is based on the colossal electroresistance (CER) effect, i.e. the resistance switching behavior upon application of voltage of varying polarity and/or magnitude. This thesis aims to investigate the CER effect and how it can be …
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Digital signatures to ensure the authenticity and integrity of synthetic DNA molecules
… and many synthetic DNA molecules are licensed intellectual property (IP). DNA samples are shared between academic labs, ordered from DNA synthesis companies and manipulated for a variety of different purposes, mostly to study their properties and improve upon them. However, it is not uncommon …
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