Protecting Ghana’s intellectual property rights in kente textiles: the case for Geographical Indications

Protecting The Digital Endeavour : Prospects For Intellectual Property Rights In

The impacts of the New Economy are not limited only to recently developed technologies, but involve new opportunities for more “traditional” technologies to develop. Knowledge-based industries, and information technologies in particular, hold both promises and threats in many fields. However, as technical know-how is both an input to and an output of knowledge-based industries, IPR regimes may ...

Protecting Intellectual Property Rights and the JPEG2000 Coding Standard

The ever-increasing use of the Internet and file sharing applications based on Peer to Peer networks has alarmed content authors, providers and resellers of digital content. Techniques proposed for protecting digital media include watermarking, use of metadata and self-protection and self-authentication. In this paper we review the most important of these methods and analyse their potential use...

Protecting Intellectual Property Rights in Distributed Cad Environments

Mega trends such as globalization and digitalization shape the future of the marine industry and shipbuilding. They have impacted significantly on the way design processes are handled and business processes conducted in the whole life cycles of marine industry. As projects become more complex and the demands for digital 3D models and production data increase, the most valuable intellectual know...

Overcoming Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Complexities and Protecting and Exploiting Intellectual Property Rights in Museums

Geographical Indications, Property Rights, and Value-Added Agriculture

What do Vidalia onions, Wisconsin cheese, and Kona coffee have that feta cheese, champagne, and cognac do not? The first three products have trademark protection for their brand names (in this case, through U.S. trademark law). The latter three have no brand name protection, but that could change. Protection would become available for the latter products if E.U. proposals to increase protection...