ITM 407 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Protect Ip Act, Eocene, Political Movement

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Information Technology Management
• Course: ITM 407
• Professor: Debashish Roy

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2) trademark: a word, name phrase, or symbol that identifies a product or service: trademark act was passed to provide protection for registered trademarks, act also ensured that quality association with a certain logo or symbol used by a business actually represents the quality consumers expect, to qualify for a trademark the mark/name has to be distinctive, however pepsi was granted uh huh and a theater was granted silence is golden , aol tried to register a number of symbols as tms such as buddy list and im. 4) three philosophical theories of property: labor theory: natural right, property right is justified by the labor that one invests in, utilitarian theory: artificial right, property right is granted because they result in, personality theory: moral right, since the object/work express personalities of the creating an object greater social utility overall individuals that created them.