The Propensity to Trademark Innovation

Malaysian entrepreneurs propensity to use IT innovation

2 The semiotic account of trademark doctrine and trademark culture

Semiotics is the study of signs and sign systems. While linguistics concerns itself specifically with human speech, semiotics investigates " the processes and effects of the production and reproduction, reception and circulation of meaning in all forms, used by all kinds of agent[s] of communication. " 1 Semiotic thought developed into its own distinctive field of inquiry in the late-nineteenth...

The Study of Tourists’ Propensity to Revisit Iran

This paper aims to probe international tourists' intention to revisit Iran using survey research method. Asian and European tourists constitute the research's statistical population. The data needed were collected from 200 respondents chosen on the basis of convenience sampling method. The data analysis revealed no difference between tourists’ economic-social attributes and their propensity to ...

Competition, innovation and racing for priority at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

When two inventors file patent applications with overlapping, or “interfering” claims, the U.S. patent rights are awarded to the applicant who establishes priority of invention. Patent interference cases are litigated at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences. The cases offer a unique window into competition between firms in research and innovation. Thi...

The Trouble with Trademark