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unusual facts about intellectual property



ARM Cortex-A

Integrated device manufacturers (IDM) receive the ARM Processor IP as synthesizable RTL (written in Verilog).

Champions Online

On February 28, 2008, Cryptic announced they had purchased the entire Champions intellectual property, licensing the rights to publish the 6th edition back to former owner Hero Games.

Drakan

However, all of Surreal's IPs have been handed over to its parent, Warner Bros., which would include Drakan.

Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey

Dreamfall Chapters is being developed for personal computers by Red Thread Games, an independent studio founded by Ragnar Tørnquist, who wrote and directed the previous two games, under the license from Funcom, the owners of The Longest Journey IP.

Grandall Law Firm

Grandall Legal Group provides expert legal services in the areas of Banking and Finance, Capital Markets and Securities; Corporate and Commercial; Intellectual Property and E-Commerce; Construction and Real Estate; Power, Energy and Infrastructure; Labor and Human Resources; Dispute Resolution, Arbitration and Litigation; Aviation, Shipping and Maritime; Private Equity and Venture Capital, Tax and Trusts.

Henry Frederick Werker

In intellectual property matters, Werker authored an opinion concerning contractual rights to produce films and television programs based on the character Hopalong Cassidy, and presided over a hearing in which heirs to the estate of Edgar Rice Burroughs, the creator of Tarzan, sought to enjoin release of Tarzan, the Ape Man, the 1981 motion picture based on the character, unless certain revealing footage of Bo Derek was cut.

Hitachi Data Systems

On August 20, 2010 Hitachi Data Systems acquired the intellectual property and core engineering team of ParaScale, developer of storage software which uses a clustered file system on multiple Linux servers to present a single file-storage appliance.

Irene Spry

Spry's comparison of the loss of the commons in England to the end of First Nations' communal rights, in particular, would echo much subsequent research on private intellectual property in contradistinction to communal resources.

Jon Dudas

Jonathan W. Dudas served as Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) until January 18, 2009.

Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation

These dockets encompass litigation categories as diverse as securities fraud, drugs and other products liability cases, intellectual property infringement, antitrust law violations, airplane crashes, employment practices and consumer data security breaches.

MechWarrior

The series' intellectual property is currently owned by Microsoft Game Studios (MGS), although Smith & Tinker Inc., has announced that it has licensed the electronic entertainment rights to the franchise.

Microsoft Corp. v. DAK Industries, Inc.

66 F.3d 1091 (9th Cir 1995) is a court case in which Microsoft contended that in being licensed the rights to sell Microsoft Word (Word) software units, the then bankrupt DAK Industries had been granted permission to use this Intellectual Property, so Microsoft was entitled to receive payments during post-bankruptcy in the form of royalties for DAK's use of the license agreement.

Nicholas Peterson

In spring 2006 Peterson completed his first independent feature film Intellectual Property starring Christopher Masterson of Malcolm in the Middle.

Nintendo Comics System

The comics are based upon Nintendo video game and television intellectual property from Super Mario Bros., Game Boy, The Legend of Zelda, Captain N: The Game Master, Metroid, and Punch-Out!!.

ROF Leeds

The problems associated with ROF Leeds were solved when Royal Ordnance agreed the sale of the factory and intellectual property rights of the Challenger tanks to Vickers plc on 4 October 1986, the final agreement was signed on 31 March 1987 valuing ROF Leeds at £15.2 million.

Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

In 1969, upon hearing a speech on intellectual property (IP) at a Time-Warner conference in San Francisco, USA, Abu-Ghazaleh decided to launch a career in the fields of Intellectual property rights (IPRs) and accounting.

The Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research

It is also undertaking a panel study of General practitioners examining the determinants of medical workforce shortages, undertakes detailed labour market research, is examining the relationship of poverty and human capital and examines the economic impacts of intellectual property.

Tina Tchen

She also handled a wide range of commercial, intellectual property, and employment-related litigation, and represented public agencies in state and federal class actions, including the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, the Illinois Department of Public Aid and the Chicago Housing Authority.

Transformativeness

On February 25, 2010, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled 2-1 that sculptor Frank Gaylord, sculptor of a portion of the Korean War Veterans Memorial, was entitled to compensation when an image of the memorial was used on a 37 cent postage stamp, because he had not signed away his intellectual property rights to the sculpture when it was erected.

Univa

On Oct 22, 2013 Univa also has announced that it has acquired the intellectual property as well the copyrights and trademaks pertaining to the Grid Engine technology from Oracle and that it will take over supporting Oracle Grid Engine customers.

On Oct 22, 2013 Univa has announced that it had acquired the intellectual property as well the copyrights and trademaks pertaining to the Grid Engine technology from Oracle and that it will take over supporting Oracle Grid Engine customers.

Unofficial Buffy the Vampire Slayer productions

Although 20th Century Fox and its licensees are the only organizations legally allowed to create any commercial products with the name and trademark Buffy and Angel, related fan films have become more common, as computer and digital technology has advanced, to allow films to be produced for less money.

World economy

For example, while attempts could be made to calculate the value of currently unexploited mining opportunities in unclaimed territory in Antarctica, the same opportunities on Mars would not be considered a part of the world economy—even if currently exploited in some way—and could be considered of latent value only in the same way as uncreated intellectual property, such as a previously unconceived invention.


see also

Adrian Cristobal

In 2005, Cristobal's son, Adrian Jr., was appointed by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo as the Director-General of the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines.

Biotecnol

After work on Escherichia coli at King's College, London, he used his expert know-how to help create & oversee all of Biotecnol's research programmes, and take control of all intellectual property issues.

Bo-Dyn Bobsled Project

On April 30, 2011, Bo-Dyn and the USBSF ended its partnership due to intellectual property disagreements, and BMW became the new bobsled provider.

Cammy Myler

She practiced law in Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy's Intellectual Property/Litigation Group before moving to Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, an entertainment and media law firm in New York City.

Canadian Music Creators Coalition

Canadian Music Creators Coalition is a group of Canadian music artists opposed to introducing legislation similar to the United States' DMCA into Canadian intellectual property law.

Catherine Cranston

The tea rooms are now owned by the Glasgow bakery HR Bradfords, who also own the UK intellectual property for the Miss Cranston name and who supply the cakes and confectionery to their tea rooms.

Cecilia López Montaño

Currently, she is a member the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) board of directors, headquartered in Washington, D.C.; the World Wide Group of experts on Intellectual Property from the World Health Organization (WHO) in Switzerland.

Centre for Commercial Law Studies

Established in 1980 by Sir Roy Goode, its mission is to develop a body of knowledge and skills in the areas of commercial law —- arbitration, intellectual property, taxation, financial law, banking law, information technology law and European law —- that can be placed at the service of government, public bodies, overseas institutions, the legal profession, industry and commerce.

China Lake Grenade Launcher

In June 2007, a taping of an episode of the popular military technology program, Weaponology was filmed which announced that Trident had been approached by a U.S. company seeking to license their intellectual property in exchange for a royalty on each weapon produced.

Coby Electronics Corporation

Due to severe financial problems following a contract dispute with Philips, on August 16, 2013, Coby Electronics Corporation went out of business, with Gordon Brothers Group acquiring inventory, fixtures, equipment, intellectual property, global trademarks and patents.

Counter-Strike

It was initially developed and released as a Half-Life modification by Minh "Gooseman" Le and Jess "Cliffe" Cliffe in 1999, before Le and Cliffe were hired and the game's intellectual property acquired.

David Nimmer

In September 2010, he was named one of "The 25 Most Influential People in IP" in The American Lawyer's Fall 2010 Intellectual Property supplement (in the good company of such fellow honorees as Supreme Court justice Anthony Kennedy, PTO Director David Kappos, and Sen. Patrick Leahy.)

Dudas

Jon Dudas, Former under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office

Fighting Is Magic

Fighting Is Magic is the former name of a fighting game that was initially cancelled due to a Cease and Desist letter by Hasbro, but has since been revived as an original Intellectual Property, being developed by the Mane6 development team and Lauren Faust.

Francis Gurry

International Intellectual Property in an Integrated World Economy, Wolters Kluwer, New York, 2nd edition 2012 (with Frederick M. Abbott and Thomas Cottier), ISBN 978-0-7355-3958-7; 1st edition 2007, ISBN 978-0-7355-3958-7

“The Evolution of Technology and Markets and the Management of Intellectual Property Rights”, in Frederick M. Abbott and David Gerber (eds.) Public Policy and Global Technology Integration, (Kluwer Law International, London, 1997), ISBN 90-411-0655-3

Fusion IP plc

Fusion IP has current intellectual property agreements with four UK universities, three of which are part of the Russell Group of Universities.

In 2005, Fusion IP signed a 10 year agreement with the University of Sheffield for the exclusive rights to commercialise all of their university-owned medical intellectual property, through either licensing or the creation of spin-out companies.

Gearbox Software

At the Penny Arcade Expo on September 3, 2010, it was announced that development of the long awaited Duke Nukem Forever will be continued by Gearbox after the project was abandoned by 3D Realms after 12 years, with Gearbox purchasing the intellectual property of the franchise.

Hans-Joachim Born

At the close of World War II, Russia had special search teams operating in Austria and Germany, especially in Berlin, to identify and “requisition” equipment, materiel, intellectual property, and personnel useful to the Soviet atomic bomb project.

Indigenous intellectual property

:This declaration arose out of a meeting of indigenous and non-indigenous specialists, who, at Jingarrba, in north-eastern Australia, agreed indigenous intellectual property rights are best determined from within the customary laws of the indigenous groups' themselves.

Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2006

Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the WIPO is a specialized agency that is funded by the United Nations in order to provide a more efficient, worldwide intellectual property system.

Intellectual Property Watch

Intellectual Property Watch is a Geneva based publication reporting on policy issues and influences relating to international organizations (IOs), especially those in Geneva such as the World Intellectual Property Organization, World Trade Organization, World Health Organization and International Telecommunication Union.

International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law

The International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law (IIC), formerly International Review of Industrial Property and Copyright Law, is a review published by the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, based in Munich, Germany.

IPMP

MPEG-4, the Intellectual Property Management and Protection

Joline Blais

Entitled Distributed creativity, this system wove together correspondents from separate email lists based in California (Creative Commons), New York (Rhizome), Ireland (DATA), India (Sarai), and Australia (Fibreculture) in a global conversation on the future of creativity, intellectual property, and mobile media.

Judith Durham

By 2009, Durham's rendition of "A Perfect Day" by Carrie Jacobs-Bond achieved more hits on YouTube than even the version by Paul Robeson but was withdrawn from availability because of questions involving access to intellectual property.

Jules Dervaes

On 21 February 2011, Corynne McSherry, Intellectual Property Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (which is representing Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen, Los Angeles-based authors of The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-sufficient Living in the Heart of the City, and publisher Process Media), sent a response to the Dervaes Institute and published the letter on the Electronic Frontier Foundation website.

Kid Pix

Kid Pix and all of the intellectual property, trademarks and copyrights associated with it are owned by Software MacKiev.

Lawrence Liang

He has been working closely with Sarai, New Delhi on a joint research project Intellectual Property and the Knowledge/Culture Commons.

Len Beadle

Indeed, Beadle was sued for breach of intellectual property by the owners of the theme to The Magnificent Seven.

Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law

In 2009 Kai A. Konrad was appointed to the Directorate of the Institute and the Department of Public Economics was added to the formed unit "Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law".

Mohammad Nurul Huda

On 12 December 2007 he presented a seminal work at the Top Level Forum on Intellectual Property organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO/OMPI), held in Geneva, Switzerland.

MSML

MSML was originally created by Convedia (now part of RadiSys), and is an open standard, meaning that companies can use the technology without licensing intellectual property.

Paramount Animation

According to Variety, the intellectual property for these films is to be supplied by Nickelodeon among others and is to include Dora the Explorer, The Legend of Korra and Monkey Quest.

Phil Lodico

In June 2009, he appeared as the featured speaker on the Trademark Track Panel at the Los Angeles Intellectual Property Law Association’s (LAIPLA) Spring Seminar, where he addressed various domain name issues including ICANN and the proposed introduction of new gTLDs.

Promises to Keep

Promises to Keep: Technology, Law, and the Future of Entertainment is a book written by William Fisher, the WilmerHale Professor of Intellectual Property at Harvard Law School and the faculty director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. It was released by Stanford University Press in August 2004.

Rechtsschutz

Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht, monthly intellectual property law journal published in German

Richard Spitalny

Spitalny was also responsible for the acquisition of Boulder Dash and continues to oversee all production, distribution, marketing and/or licensing of games based on this intellectual property throughout the world.

Rightscorp, Inc.

Rightscorp has worked with Hollywood studios such as Warner Bros. and agencies such as BMG Rights Management, which represents such musicians as David Bowie, Kings of Leon, and Will.i.am, to protect intellectual property and copyrights.

Sojuzpatent

Sojuzpatent has offices in Moscow, Astrakhan, Vologda, Kirov, Kostroma, and Novosibirsk; it is the headquarters of the national group of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI) since its foundation in 1965.

Systemax

On May 13, 2009, Circuit City announced it would sell its intellectual property, including its trademarks, brand name, and internet domain, to Systemax for $14 million.

The Society of British Interior Design

SBID lobbies government to protect and promote the design industry for legislation change in Britain and campaigns on sustainability issues through two Ambassadors, Robin Gibb CBE of the Bee Gees, Ambassador for Intellectual Property (IP) rights and Dame Vivienne Westwood, Ambassador for Wool as a sustainable fibre.

The X-Family

The producer responded by issuing a public apology through Comic International Productions Co., Ltd, and stated that they were in the process of negotiating with Square Enix about intellectual property rights.

Timeline of SCO–Linux controversies

:SCO retains lawyer David Boies, announcing that they would be investigating infringement on their intellectual property pertaining to their ownership of UNIX.

United States House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property

United States House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property is a subcommittee within the House committee on the Judiciary.

WebDNA

WSC purchased the intellectual property that is WebDNA, and in 2009, WSC released a new WebDNA version 6.2 (Cicada).

WKQX

Q101 Chicago, the intellectual property of WKQX from 1992 to 2011 that was spun off to a third party in 2011, and currently functions as an internet radio platform independent of the current WKQX

Zheng Chengsi

In 1994, Zheng was selected as an arbitrator of the Arbitration Center of the World Intellectual Property Organization, and became the Director of the Intellectual Property Center of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.