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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Intellectual Property Protection"”.
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Secure application partitioning for intellectual property protection
Intellectual property protection is a major concern for both hardware and software architects today. Recently secure platforms have been proposed to protect the privacy of application code and enforce that an application can only be run or accessed by authorized hosts. Unfortunately, these …
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Runtime Intellectual Property Protection on Programmable Platforms
… 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 securing IP based designs in …
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Essays on Intellectual Property Protection and Innovation in Agriculture
The last essay examines the characteristics of patents that contribute to future innovation and affect the rate of technical changes in the agricultural biotechnology industry. Results from this essay imply that innovation networks in agricultural biotechnology are rather undifferentiated, in which …
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Micropayments as a form of market-based intellectual property protection
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1997.
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Traditional Intellectual Property Protection in Tanzania: The Case of Traditional Medicinal Knowledge
… addresses the global issues that relates to protection of indigenous traditional knowledge with special emphasis to traditional medicinal knowledge. The core issue of TK protection and in particular traditional medicinal knowledge lies at the centre of the current global IP protection …
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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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U.S. policy of conditioning China's most-favored-nation status on intellectual property protection, 1991-1993
… China's Most-FavoredNation (MFN) status on its intellectual property protection in the 1991-1993 period. It seeks to evaluate the importance of U.S. foreign policy interests, societal actors, institutions (the presidency or Congress), and the interaction between these institutions in the MFN …
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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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Intellectual Property Protection for Computer Software: A Comparative Analysis of the United States and Japanese Intellectual Property Regimes
This thesis explores the reform of intellectual property regulation policies with respect to computer software within two advanced industrial nations after 1980. A comparative case analysis of the United States and Japan will provide insight as to how advanced industrial nations have responded to …
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Trends in International Compulsory Licensing of Pharmaceuticals Since the Institution of the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Protection (TRIPS) Agreement
<p>The Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement went into effect for World Trade Organization (WTO) members in 1995. The agreement defines minimum standards of patent protection that must eventually be observed by all signatories. TRIPS includes "compulsory …
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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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An examination of the intellectual property regimes in the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) states and a series of recommendations to develop an integrated approach to intellectual property rights
This thesis aims to examine the intellectual property regimes in the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) states and assess the relationships between legislation, enforcement mechanisms and sharia law. The GCC states, currently Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Qatar, all have varied …
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The Implications of Introducing Sustainability and Climate Change as Grounds for Compulsory Licensing Under the World Trade Organization (WTO) Trade Related Intellectual Property (TRIPS) Agreement
This thesis addresses the growing tension between intellectual property protection under the World Trade Organization’s Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Agreement and the urgent need for access to climate-related technologies. While the Agreement permits compulsory licensing, …
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The re-introduction of an opposition procedure in Maltese Trademark Law : a burden or a blessing?
… a later trademark at application phase under the Intellectual Property (Protection) Ordinance. Subsequently, the study will try to reveal the effects of its removal with the coming into force of the Trademarks Act in 2001 by analysing local jurisprudence and paying particular attention to the …
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O Trans Pacific Partnership e a estratégia norte americana de Forum Shifting em propriedade intelectual.
… Partnership on the international regime of intellectual property, considering specifically the insertion of this negotiation in the United States maximalist agenda for intellectual property. The analysis conceives the agreement as a channel for the US insertion in the Asia-Pacific regional …
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Same song, new dance: analyzing market structure and competition in the digital music aggregation industry
… as mass distribution, royalty collection, and intellectual property protection. Digital music aggregators provide services to artists at all levels of prestige and experience. Essentially any artist interested in publishing music can do so using digital music aggregators. Despite their growing …
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Empirical and theoretical observations in trade secrecy : statutory prescriptions and endogenous growth
… if not more important, than patenting as an intellectual property protection mechanism in the United States economy. While patent protection has always been an institution in the United States as a result of its inclusion in the Constitution, trade secret protection has only been statutorily …
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Brokering strategic partnerships between Asian and western biopharmaceutical companies in the global biologics market : assessment of capabilities of Asian participants in the biologics contract manufacturing organization marketplace
… Asian countries like India and China. However, intellectual property protection and quality control issues have been considered problematic in these countries. In this context, other relatively well developed Asian countries-Japan, South Korea (referred to as Korea) and Singapore, which have …
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