Challenges RIM Faced Protecting Its Intellectual Property One of the biggest challenges RIM faced by protecting its intellectual property was from a patent lawsuit filed in 2000. NTP was a patent holding company based out of Virginia. The company offered to license patents related to RIM’s wireless email system. They believed they owned the intellectual property behind BlackBerry. Since RIM’s CEO, Mike Lazaridis did not respond, NTP filed a lawsuit.
The defendants are subject to suit in California because the comparison to a welder does not make sense. The defendant was aware that the magazine had a sizeable circulation in California, that the plaintiff resided in California, and that the allegations made in the article would harm her career
He authorized the charging of his credit card, The TV Corporation International charged the credit card. Subsequently, The TV Corporation International tried to avoid handing over the domain name to Lim using several pretexts like there was an e-mail error, the minimum bid amount had not been bid for and other such reasons. Issues of Law being raised are accepting to bid on the online auction and paying through the credit card the sum requested by the seller, is there an enforceable contract? Can the seller be sued for breach of contract? Procedural history is the trial court dismissed the case because the court held that since the domain offered and the one accepted were "different' there was no contract formed.
Justice Rehnquist opined that, “Jurisdiction over petitioners in California is proper because of their intentional conduct in Florida allegedly calculated to cause injury to respondent in California”. Question B B) What is a business's obligation to build an ethical culture and balance its desire for profit with ethical responsibilities to employees, customers, society and the environment? Explain your answer fully. According to chapter 1 of The Legal Environment of Business and Online Commerce, “Businesses that are organized in the United States are subject to its laws. They are also subject to the laws of other countries in which they operate.
Although, the claims against Microsoft may have very well been valid, I believe they were just doing what they could to gain a competitive edge in this capitalistic market but by fraudulent means. During the trial the Department of Justice found that not only had Microsoft violated a “1994 consent decree which forced computer makers to include its Internet browser as a part of the installation of Windows software,” (Dickinson v Microsoft) but they also threatened personal computer (PC) manufacturers with
Seminar 3 Negligent Misstatement (Summative) Hedley Byrne & Co Ltd v Heller & Partners Ltd [1963] 2 All ER 575 Whether and under what conditions a person can recover damages for loss suffered by reason of his having relied on an innocent but negligent misrepresentation. Hedley [the appellants] were advertising agency who had made some advertising work for Easipower. Hedley was responsible for any amount which was not paid by Easipower since they have to pay for advertising orders. Later on Hedley became curious about a financial position of Easipower to afford another advertising which Hedley may give them on credit. The bank of Easipower [the defendant] gave a report of Easipowers financial position that they have enough resources for ordinary business proceedings, but stated that the report was given "without responsibility."
Privacy invaded? Ever since the NSA, National Security Agency, has started to track and scan citizen’s private phone calls and electronic messages people have been concerned about the privacy of their technology, they feel that it is a violation to their fourth amendment. People being watched and spied on for only a reason of suspicion; is a violation because the citizens have the right to a reasonable search and seizures. Therefore, I do not agree with the government unreasonably spying. The fourth amendment states guards against unreasonable searches and seizures.
If so, explain. Yes, WIRETIME, Inc. has committed a tort called tortious interference with a contract. They caused a contracting party to commit a breach of contract. They induced Janet to not fulfill her contract by interfering for their own benefit. Janet can prove that the third-party interferer acted intentionally, by their actions and the contractual breach (which they were aware of).
2. Was it ethical for The National Enquirer to try to avoid suit in California? Yes, it was ethical for the National Enquirer to avoid suit in California. By avoiding the suit in California, the National Enquirer is prevented from receiving judgments of bias. Shirley Jones, an entertainer and a resident of the State of California, filed a lawsuit against the National Enquirer and the president for publishing bias information about her.
APPLE V CHINA COURT 28TH December 2012 “Apple fined by China court for copyright violation” A court in China demanded that Apple pay compensation to 8 Chinese writers and two companies for violating their copyrights. The Chinese defendants claimed that Apple had used and sold electronic versions of their books on Apples online store. The court demanded that Apple pay them £100,00 in compensation. This was the second time Apple was fined for copyright violation in China. In September Apple were ordered to pay compensation to a Chinese encylopedia publisher for copyright allegation.