This 12 page paper examines a case study provided by the student with various intellectual property concerns. The issues considered are the publication of papers on the internet, with the case study using documents are confidential to another company and not obtained legally, the use of those papers to create new works. Other issues include confidently of patients information and how drug companies may pass on information, the use of trademarks, the publication of hyperlinks to another companies web site, and the different ways that intellectual property may be protected including copyright, patents, trademarks and design protection. The bibliography cites 14 sources.
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they may all appear to be related each needs to be tackled separately. Question 1. In this question Foxy Friends (FF) have
information sent to them that is very clearly the property of OrganoTrans Ltd (OTL). The information is sent to them anonymously and they decide to use this to create a
document that is a pr?cis of the total information as well as publish all the documents, both of which appear on a web cite. This is sensitive information and may
therefore been easily seen and understood to be the property of OTL. This is therefore intellectual property. Until recently there have been many problems in the area of intellectual
copyright. The best remedy until recently may have been to pursue any case under the Theft Act 1968 (Maclachlan, 1998). This act stated; "(i) A person is guilty of theft
if he dishonestly appropriates property belonging to another with the intention of permanently depriving the other of it." However, as FF have not stolen the documents, and it is
unlikely that the information is not recorded elsewhere the intention is not to deprive the company, therefore it would have been difficult to bring an action
Under this act any trade secrets and information held by a business can not be deemed property (Maclachlan, 1998). This would mean that any trade secrets
or intellectual property right could be taken from an employer by any employee, and there would be no recourse under criminal law (Maclachlan, 1998). The case of Faccenda Chicken demonstrated
that where this occurred they may be a civil liability which could be pursued, but that the protection to intellectual property was very week.
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