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Kassie
Joined: 09 May 2008 Posts: 17
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Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 1:20 pm Post subject: Does anyone know any thing about intellectual property |
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| Saw something today that made me raise an eyebrow. |
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urinefacewash

Joined: 20 Sep 2007 Posts: 19422 Location: Vermillion Sands
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Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 1:24 pm Post subject: |
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| what? |
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Laugh Out Loud

Joined: 05 Feb 2008 Posts: 588
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Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 1:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Does anyone know any thing about intellectual property |
Yes.
There is very little of it on Gumtree! |
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Kassie
Joined: 09 May 2008 Posts: 17
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Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 1:36 pm Post subject: |
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I've noticed a company (mainly by seeing their vans on the highways byways of London ) Company is called CBS Outdoor and they have the same logo as the American news channel. CBS has been around for at least 60 years if not much more. The today I noticed a great big old yellow truck with the logo Big Yellow Grab it. I think they haul or escavate not sure as it went by me faster than I could take the information in.
http://www.cbsnews.com/
http://www.cbsoutdoor.co.uk/ |
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Kassie
Joined: 09 May 2008 Posts: 17
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Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 1:37 pm Post subject: |
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| I forgot to mention their log was the same as The big yellow storage people. |
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urinefacewash

Joined: 20 Sep 2007 Posts: 19422 Location: Vermillion Sands
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Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 1:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Kassie wrote: | I've noticed a company (mainly by seeing their vans on the highways byways of London ) Company is called CBS Outdoor and they have the same logo as the American news channel. CBS has been around for at least 60 years if not much more. The today I noticed a great big old yellow truck with the logo Big Yellow Grab it. I think they haul or escavate not sure as it went by me faster than I could take the information in.
http://www.cbsnews.com/
http://www.cbsoutdoor.co.uk/ |
they're allowed to do that on the grounds that people are unlikely to confuse the two. |
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TodayIsTheDay

Joined: 22 Jul 2007 Posts: 7868 Location: undisclosable
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Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 1:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Has anyone suffered any damages? |
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the beak

Joined: 31 Mar 2008 Posts: 3398 Location: varys between heaven,earth and hell
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Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 2:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Kassie wrote: | | I forgot to mention their log was the same as The big yellow storage people. | not big yellow taxi was it? |
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Vibrance

Joined: 06 Jun 2006 Posts: 20862 Location: somewhere, nowhere, here
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Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 10:49 pm Post subject: |
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ld be wrong but that isnt intellectual peoperty
its called infringing copyrights...or some such thing
intellectual property - the easiest way to describe it - is when you are working for a company and due to the fact they pay your wages, and provide you with an area to work, anything that comes from your brain and becomes a success within the market........it then becomes owned by the company, and you will be lucky if you even get a mention
or at uni, you come up with some grand theory - it get out and the uni take it as there own (but offering you a "research" position so as to develop it)........and when it is advertised it is called "a team of professors/scientists at X university".......etc. |
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partystar
Joined: 04 Dec 2007 Posts: 21
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Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Hi, if they bought the rights to use the logo then yes it is ok. But as Us and Uk have different laws for example if something is patented in the us but not world wide then you can produce the same thing in the Uk and not have a legal claim against you. I hope this helps to clarify things for you |
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