Category Archives: Legal Cases
Labour Standards and Globalisation: A Case Study of Implementing Minimum Wages
Minimum wage policy has remained in contention with economists and policy makers aligned on both sides of the debate. Increasingly the state has been forced to formally retract these laws under the onslaught of the globalisation of capital. This has [...]
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EU Code of Conduct on Arms Exports : a case study
The EU’s Code of Conduct on Arms Exports was introduced in 1998. Member states retain the power to grant or deny applications for licences to export arms, but the Code lays down criteria, and aims at harmonising practices across the [...]
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Intellectual Property and Competition Law
Intellectual property (IP) law subjects intellectual assets to the owner’s exclusive control. Competition law on the other hand, seeks to avoid market barriers and benefit consumers by ensuring that a multiplicity of suppliers of goods, services and technologies may effectively [...]
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Maximizing Intellectual Property and Intangible Assets
Recent advances in scientific and business innovation have rapidly transformed the world economy, creating new industries, displacing and altering older ones, and recalibrating business and commercial activity in many ways. As industry has invested in developing new technology and advancing [...]
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Cyber law case study: Is the online music industry covered under it? iTunes case
The recent international expansion of online music services such as iTunes has raised a number of questions about the legal foundation of these services. iTunes Case Study argues that online music services can maintain the same business model from country [...]
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Agriculture, genetic resources and traditional knowledge: A case of IPR
The relationship between agriculture, genetic resources, traditional knowledge and intellectual property rights is a contentious, on-going, issue of debate in several multilateral institutions. These include the World Trade Organisation (WTO), and the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), the Convention on [...]
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case study: applying conjoint analysis to legal disputes
the method has been there for more than 30 years used in marketing.less well known in legal field case gives some of the uses of analysis in legal field
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Heritage Legal Case Study
In recent years the popularity of the Heritage Library Management System amongst [...]
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Traditional Knowledge Vs. Patent System
Traditional knowledge (TK) is in simple terms knowledge systems held by indigenous communities, often relating to their surrounding natural environment. Through globalisation and the increased availability of this knowledge as well as the implementation of intellectual property systems in the [...]
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