BUG, Inc. is a company that is a manufacturer and seller of electronic recording devices. Many of their clients are state and federal law enforcement agencies. Because of the nature of its business and its clients, it has many developments and designs that need to be protected from others trying to replicate its work. Below describes many different situations of needed protection and how to protect its products.
Intellectual Property Protection
BUG, Inc. needs to protect its designs, manufacturing process, the actual recording devices, original authored software, and its ladybug logo. These items are all under the umbrella of intellectual property. BUG, Inc. will need to make application to several different agencies to achieve maximum protection.
BUG, Inc. needs to protect its designs and their ladybug with headphones logo from illegal usage. These need trademark protection. BUG, Inc. will need to register the designs and logo with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Washington, D.C. By registering its logo, BUG, Inc. will be able to put this logo on all of their products. Everyone will be able to recognize the device and immediately know that it is a BUG, Inc. product. Any unauthorized use of the ladybug logo is considered a trademark infringement.
By copyrighting its software, BUG, Inc. protects its rights to reproduce, publish, and distribute any programs BUG may have written. Even though copyrights are established with the creation of the software, BUG, Inc. will still need to file with the Copyright office in Washington, D.C. This is simply a registration process. There is nothing issued by the U.S. government.
BUG, Inc. will be able to protect itself against all others using its manufacturing process and from manufacturing replicas of its recording devices, by applying for a patent. This is a long process, usually taking about two years.
For the protection of its devices, company image, and company liability; BUG needs to understand that there are many laws that protect businesses while doing interstate and international e-commerce. First of all there is the IP address, which will be BUG.com, but initially BUG will need to purchase this, after doing so, BUG needs to ensure that its namesake and BUG.com website is protected by filing for a trademark and registering the BUG.com name on, www.networksolutions.com.
BUG also has issues like security privacy to worry about, to ensure that its website is secure for consumer information to be broadcasted.
Cisco vs. Huawei: Intellectual Property Introduction On Jan. 23, 2003, Cisco Systems, Inc. announced that it has filed a lawsuit against a Chinese equipment manufacturer, Huawei Technologies, Co., LTD and its subsidiaries, Huawei America, Inc. and FutureWei Technologies, Inc. over Huawei's unlawful copying of Cisco's intellectual property. Cisco is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet with the headquarter located in US. Huawei, based in Shenzhen, China, is China's biggest telecommunications
exploiting bugs in the operating system to obtain free computer time.[11] At the end of the ban, the four students offered to debug CCC's software in exchange for free computer time. Rather than use the system via teletype, Gates went to CCC's offices and studied source code for various programs that ran on the system, including FORTRAN, LISP, and machine language. The arrangement with CCC continued until 1970, when it went out of business. The following year, Information Sciences Inc. hired the
dispositions. I think we all should take a cue from Epicurus' argument and seize the day, rather than wasting our time on irrational fears. Works Cited Epicurus. The Epicurus Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia. Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 1994. Translated and Edited by Brad Inwood and L.P. Gerson. Lucretius. The Way Things Are. Indiana University Press, 1969. Translated by Rolfe Humphries. Plato. The Apology. Hackett Publishing Company, 1981. Translated by G.M.A. Grube. Shakespeare
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found on the Open Source website describes the basic idea behind open source code. “When programmers on the Internet can read, redistribute, and modify the source for a piece of software, it evolves. People improve it, people adapt it, and people fix bugs. And this can happen at a speed that, if one is used to the slow pace of conventional software development, seems astonishing.” (Open Source, August
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looking for something to do, whereas these days I spend my summers looking for ways to get out of doing what I am supposed to do. We would go to the local elementary and middle schools where there was a small creek and pond. We would catch crayfish, bugs, and frogs only to let them go after we celebrated our great achievement. We would play tag, football, soccer, hockey and baseball at someone’s house or at the athletic fields of the schools. And all of us were of the same culture and class. It
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brother) and himself. It was at Edinburgh that Charles discovered that medicine was not in his future. Charles was extremely squeamish and hated working on cadavers. This sent Charles back to his old ways of collecting and dissecting animals and bugs. Meanwhile, while attending Edinburgh, Darwin was also receiving instruction on taxidermy. This also proved useful on board the Beagle. Also, while attending Edinburgh Darwin became familiar with the evolutionary theories of Lamarck. Darwin gave