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Chinese Patent Law
A Quick Primer on Chinese Patent Law Historical Perspective Historically, China refused to protect intellectual property. However, it has recently begun taking steps to offer such protection. China's historic refusal to protect intellectual property was due to two primary factors: communism discourages individual property, and the Chinese view copying as flattery. As a result, it has been estimated that 90% of Chinese government offices practice piracy and that 96% of Chinese software is counterfeit. These
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Law
Situation No. 1 Franklin Coffee, a supervisor in Telecom Support, has an 80-year-old mother who recently suffered a series of strokes. She will be discharged from the hospital in three days and must immediately be placed into a long-term care facility. Franklin is an only child and there is no one else who can assist in making all of the arrangements needed for his mother. He has requested time off for 3-4 weeks while he
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Social Disorganization Compared To Psychoanalytical: Which Theory Best Explains Criminal Behavior?
Social Disorganization compared to Psychoanalytical: Which theory best explains criminal behavior? Abstract This paper compares and contrasts social disorganization theory against psychoanalytical theory. Research was conducted using eight scholarly articles that defined each theory, as well as, explore how each theory correlates to several different concepts of criminal behavior. This research discovers, to some degree, both "Why some communities have higher crime rates than others?" to "Why some individual people commit crime and others don't"?
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Law Enforcement Deviance
Law Enforcement Deviance Never before, had the city of Los Angeles been involved in a scandal like the one it faced within the department’s Rampart Area. Allegations of perjury, false arrest reports, evidence planting, police brutality, and even murder plagued the department. What started out as an attempt to stop the growing number of “gang related” crimes in the Rampart Area of Los Angeles, had turned into one of the worst scandals to disgrace the
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Law Enforcement Deviance
Law Enforcement Deviance Never before, had the city of Los Angeles been involved in a scandal like the one it faced within the department’s Rampart Area. Allegations of perjury, false arrest reports, evidence planting, police brutality, and even murder plagued the department. What started out as an attempt to stop the growing number of “gang related” crimes in the Rampart Area of Los Angeles, had turned into one of the worst scandals to disgrace the
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What Society Expects Of Its Criminal Justice System
This paper speaks to what society expects of the police, courts, corrections, and how they are realized and unfulfilled, as well as the employees of the system in terms of their goals and expectations, the temptations and the differences in their goals from society’s goals. Finally, the paper will speak to the individuals that are charged by the system regarding their legitimate and non-legitimate needs. Society expects its police to look into reported crimes, collecting
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European Law Of Religion вЂ" Organizational And Institutional Analysis Of National Systems And Their Implications For The Future European Integration Process
The present study puts its main emphasis on the corporate element of the freedom of religion in the European context. The collective side of fundamental rights’ protection is often neglected in academic discussion, even though it has major impacts on the whole institutional shape of a given polity. It is not only touching upon the question whether an association should be allowed to be granted legal capacity in its own name and exercise rights and
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A Critical Appraisal Of The Components Of Taxation In Nigeria And Proposals For Law Reforms
INTRODUCTION Tax has been variously defined over the years. These definitions, when looked at as a whole gives a more comprehensive picture of the phenomenon as opposed to a single definition. According to the Oxford English Dictionary the word 'tax' refers to a compulsory contribution to the support of government levied on persons, property, income, commodities, transactions, etc, now at a fixed rate mostly proportionate to the amount on which the contribution is levied. While
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Participants In Criminal And Civil Courtrooms
Participants in Criminal and Civil Courtrooms Type of Participant Criminal Court Civil Court Remarks Judge The judge is referred to as "the trier of law" he/she sits as an impartial party whose responsibility is to determine that the trial is conducted in an orderly and lawful manner. The judge resolves any disputes concerning points of law. The judge may grant a wider latutude to attorneys in their respective representation and defense of clients. The role
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Consideration - Business Law
Consideration For any contract to be valid, consideration is needed. Consideration is the benefit or detriment in the exchange process. If X goes to the shop to buy a bag of rice. And he takes it to the cashier. X pays the money for the bag of rice. He looses his money but gains a bag of rice. The shop on the other hand looses the bag of rice but gains the money. Consideration need
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Consumer Law
There are three problems that John has come across on his trip to Bildit Stores. The first problem is that John parked his car in the stores car park only to find on his return that the "park here at your own risk" sign had fallen and damaged his car. The next is that he bought a drill from another customer instead of in the store and it set fire when first used which resulted
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Employment Law
I. Disparate Impact is defined as where an employer is not motivated by discriminatory intent. Title VII prohibits an employer from using a facially neutral employment practice that as an unfair unfavorable impact on members of a protected class. The United States Supreme court first described the disparate impact theory in 1971, in the Griggs v. Duke Power Company (401 U.S 424). Title VII also goes on to confirm that disparate impact "proscribes not only
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Criminal Jurisdiction In Indian Country
Criminal Jurisdiction in Indian Country Tribal nations enjoy a unique legal position in the United States attributable to their sovereign status with built in powers of self-government. They also enjoy a special relationship with the federal government. In turn, this status and relationship has consequences for tribes and their members; for the states and their citizens; and the federal government. This paper will explore the significance of tribal sovereignty, the tribal-federal trust relationship, and their
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Compensation Law
"FLSA is the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. The FLSA is a Federal law that institutes minimum wage, guaranteed overtime pay, strict record keeping and child labor standards. This affected full-time and part-time workers in the private sector and in federal, state and local governments. The FLSA is administered by the Wage and Hour Division of the United States Department of Labor, which conducts audits and workplace inspections." (en.wikipedia.org) "The Fair Labor Standards Act
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Law 529 - Contract Creation And Management Memo
Span Systems Memo To: Kevin Grant From: Mike Smith CC: Harold Smith Date: 8/24/2007 Re: Citizen-Schwarz AG Contract In the future, if Citizen-Schwarz AG continues to change their original contract requirements there needs to be sign offs from both Span Systems and Citizen-Schwarz AG directors. Prior to Span Systems' director signing off Citizen-Schwarz AG's request, a panel of senior programmers at Span Systems needs to approve the request, so programming changes can be adequately
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The New Bankruptcy Laws
After seven failed attempts and massive lobbying largely by banks and credit card companies, the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 was signed into law by President Bush on April 20th, 2005. The legislation represents the largest overhaul of the Bankruptcy Code since its enactment in 1978. The intent of Congress was to improve bankruptcy law and practice with a dominant theme of restoring personal responsibility and integrity in the bankruptcy system.
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Representation Of Women In Early British Literature
In most early British literature a woman is often presented as only one thing: an object. They can be objects of desire, objects of beauty, or merely objects to be owned, but it is rare that a woman is anything more than that. It is even more uncommon to find a female character in literature that is presented as an equal to the men around her. In William Congreve's The Way of the World he
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Sources Of Law
SOURCES OF LAW All the sources have a relevance to the operation of business and management which means that managers and employees have to be aware of them and their different features. PRINCIPAL FEATURES 1. STATUTE. law made by the Government known also as legislation and statute. a. This is law made by Parliament. A Bill goes through several procedures and debates in Parliament and when it is finally agreed it receives the Royal Assent.
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Business Law Problems
1. What are the four elements of a valid contract? A contract is an "agreement between parties, with terms and conditions that describe the agreement that constitutes a legal obligation" (All Business). A valid contract requires four elements and these are: a. Mutual agreement - there must be a meeting of the minds between parties. There should be an offer and an acceptance. There should be an agreement to enter into the contract b. Consideration
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Contract Law
1. Contracts: 2 sets of contract rules to learn a. common law contract rules: apply to contracts that are not a sale of goods ( real estate, insurance, employment, professional services) b. Article Two of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC): governs transactions involving the sale of goods ( tangible personal property ) c. Contract: set of promises where court holds each party accountable; if a contract is not performed, one of the parties may be
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The Criminal Mind Of Robert Browning
The Criminal Mind of Robert Browning The criminal mind of Robert Browning is depicted in three of his poems. The poems are "My Last Duchess", "Porphyria's Lover", and "The Pied Piper of Hamelin". These poems show secretly how Robert Browning uses characters to express his criminal thoughts. Browning considered the ethics of an act only as it has affected the person making the act for good or ill, without regard to the evil brought
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British Colonial Attitude
THE BRITISH COLONIAL ATTITUDE By Mathilde Wilhelmsen 3A Imperialism is when a nation takes control of another nation's political and economic system and conquest the territories by force. Today, it may seem radical to conquer another nation. But not more than a century ago the common opinion was quite different. A poem written by Rudyard Kipling, represents what sort of view most of Britain, especially many of the respected Englishmen, had towards their colonies at
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British Literature
The British Empire was once taking over many different territories and colonizing around the world. In the twentieth century what was accepted as British literature because more diverse. Britain diversified its self not only around the world but people from all over came to Britain too. Many writings in this period show this in different ways. Virginia Woolf's "A Room of One's Own", Salmon Rushdie's "English Is an Indian Literary Language", Ngugi WA Thiong'O's
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Role Of Law
The role of the law "is a system of rules usually enforced through a set of institutions". (Wikipedia, 2007) These rules are governed and regulated as specific types of laws. Some types of laws are constitutional laws, which exist only at state and federal levels. (Mallor et al., p.2,p.3) This types of law sets up structure and oversee prevention of other government levels. (Mallor et al., p.2,p.3) Another type of law is Statues in which
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Internet Law And The Economy
Internet Law and the Economy MBA 501 University of Phoenix Online Introduction This week's article review is taken from Ubiquity, an ACM IT Magazine and forum. The article is "The New Economy: Are Rules Irrelevant?" by Daniel W. Uhlfelder, Esq. In this article it is discussed how the new economy of the Internet move forward and enact laws that would be beneficial to all parties involved. This will be hard if not impossible because the
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