China IP
China's intellectual property rights protections have come a long way since 1978, but there remains room for improvement. While the de jure situation with respect to protecting intellectual property rights approaches Western standards, the Continue Reading...
China's Intellectual Property Rights: Current Issues, Strategic Considerations And Problem Solving
In this paper, the focus is primarily on the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) that are given to individuals within the Republic of China. The paper Continue Reading...
China & IP
My research topic is intellectual property rights in China. My thesis is that China needs to strengthen its protection of intellectual property rights in order to improve its integration with the global economic system. I will argue t Continue Reading...
China's accession to the World Trade Organization for China and its trading partners with a focus on the United States. Findings indicate that China will benefit from new export markets and increased foreign investment. The main efficiency gains fro Continue Reading...
accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001, China's laws regarding intellectual property rights were largely weak and ineffective, even though there were some laws on the books that were designed to protect these rights. Much of this ineffect Continue Reading...
SOPA & PIPA Legislation
File sharing involving copyright infringement began as peer-to-peer operations, sometimes with the involvement of a central server that acts as a search engine. Recently there has been a rise in file sharing where the inf Continue Reading...
The company tried breakfast food with little success, and failed at branching out into music as well. Overall, there is little evidence that Starbucks can be anything other than a coffee company.
Despite the weaknesses, there are a number of great Continue Reading...
N.D.P.16).
Indirect Investment Options
The indirect investment option avails itself of two avenues: licensing agreements or branch or representative offices. "Foreign companies with patents, trademarks, or other intellectual property are free to e Continue Reading...
SOPA
Objective argument: The Stop Online Piracy Act
The Internet has been called the new Wild West: there is a great deal of profit that can be made, in terms of availability of information, but there are also many hazards, due to the lack of regul Continue Reading...
PK = Deltagen Inc.
PRXL = Parexel International Corp.
Pvt1 = Quintiles Transnational Corp. (privately held)
Industry = Biotechnology
As of 2005
Source: Yahoo! Finance, April 29, 2007.
Figure 1. Financial Performance: Charles River Laboratories Continue Reading...
Internet has grown exponentially since its first introduction to the public. The precursor to the Internet was the ARPANET. The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the Department of Defense (Carlitz and Zinga, 1997) and the National Science Continue Reading...
Starbucks in India
Identifying Global Opportunities
Global Business Opportunities
Starbucks is a global retailer of coffee, and is seeking new growth markets, since its largest markets (U.S., Canada, UK) are all mature. The company has nearly 20,0 Continue Reading...
Nintendo Wii
The most important factors in the external environment for the Nintendo Wii are the demographic, economic, political/legal, sociocultural, technological and global environments. Each of these different environments is important to the N Continue Reading...