post Wednesday March 20, 2013
African Ministers Focus on IP Role in Innovation for Development
The role of innovation as a driving force of social, economic, and environmental development is one of the central themes in post-2015 global development agenda discussions. In a ministerial-level meeting with guidance from the World Intellectual Property Organization last week, African policymakers outlined what they would need to foster innovation at home.
THE conventional way to protect intellectual property is to patent it. This gives an inventor legal protection for his idea: if others want to use it, they must pay him. The snag is that he must publish his idea, making it easy for someone in a less lawful country to steal it.
Apple Inc Being Accused of IP Theft
Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) has been facing a blame of illegally acquiring speaker technology, which was being used in iPhones, iPads and iMac devices, by THX Ltd, whose founder is the world renowned producer of Star Wars, George Lucas.
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