Copyright Of The Intellectual Property - 1871 Words

a MID EXAM 1Ans) Intellectual property right gives credit to the original work done by the people .The law the creative work of the people from coping or imitating without their permission. There are three main things that protect the intellectual right .They are copyrights, patents and trademarks. As the technology increases instead of thinking newly ,people are choosing a alternative or easy way of imitating the other works and showing as their own work . Here are few examples of violating the intellectual property rights: 1.)A Beijing court in china has ruled that Microsoft violated intellectual properties of a Chinese company. Violation was over fonts that are used in†¦show more content†¦3.)Adidas a multinational corporation was using three stripe marks as a logo since 1952, but it registered its logo as trademark recently. Payless other similar kind of company was also confusingly using similar kind of logo. Adidas registered its logo making an agreement with payless in 2001. Payless after settlement also started selling look-alikes logo which was violating the rule of their agreement. For violating rule by payless, Adidas has been awarded $305 million which was calculated $100 million for each stripe. 4.) In July, castle French wine company was fined $5million for using the trade mark of another shanghai based company. He used shanghai banti trademark ka site ,transliteration of castle. As china uses first come first serve trade mark system the Chinese company owner has registered first in 1998 but as castle used this he was prosecuted for using others company s trade mark. 5.) Music as a best part of life in almost all kind of people in the world, with this popularity in music there was so many groups that are looking to sell them and make money. Around the same time a music application was created by an 18 year old kid, the application was a peer-to-peer music sharing service which allows users to download music files for free, which made music group such as AM Records and other similar