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How to minimize corporate credit card abuse We’ve all heard the stories: government officials, school administrators, and even police officers have been caught using their credit cards to finance business personal shopping trips. The cases of credit card abuse was angry because taxpayers end up paying the bill for such purchases. But what if you are a manager whose employees have access to corporate credit cards? How can you ensure that your expense is legitimate?

First, it is important to define the acceptable limits of use of credit cards. Your company probably has a policy in place. Ensure that employees receive a printout that is easy to understand. Make sign, indicating that they have received the guidelines and agree with them. These guidelines should include deadlines for the receipt, and a list of purchases allowed. Make sure your employees know what will happen if the abuse of the system. A system of consequences should be in place, and the consequences should vary depending on the severity of the employee’s actions. A couple of accidental purchases could merit a warning while using the corporate card to finance a vacation staff should be grounds for termination – and possibly litigation! Finally, be aware of the statements of corporate credit card as you would with your personal accounts. Take time to read the statements of each month, and talk with employees about questionable purchases. If your card offers additional security features, such as a purchase limit or filter, take advantage of them.

Corporate use of credit card can be very convenient for employees, but it is important to ensure that these cards are used as intended. A little vigilance and a few guidelines can prevent a major financial headache down the road.

Intellectual property is either owned by enterprises or individuals. Companies own this information with the basic idea of selling it in legal terms. However, a person prefers to sell the intellectual property, or keep it for themselves.

There are different forms of intellectual property rights, artwork, record labels, sound recordings, movies, software programs, computer programs, chips, inventions and discoveries.So, various types of intellectual property rights may come with different people. For example, a person who has invented a tool but not have the money to start production or make money on a large scale. Such a person can find a company willing to buy the idea and market it for them. They can pay a whole some amount of this idea and take the legal rights to the invention by patenting it on their company’s name. Read the rest of this entry »

In a simple word, intellectual property is defined as creative works that have economic value. Being protected by law, intellectual property is prevented from any illegal copying, performing, or distributing the works without appropriate permission. The primary objective of such legal protection is to provide incentives and honor for individual producers to crease more and more scientific and creative works benefiting the society.

There are two model of legal protection toward the creative works; first, intellectual property with the automatic legal protection from the beginning of creation, second, procedural process of requesting for legal protection of certain intellectual property rights to a government agency. Due to the fact that there are still many nations give lack of attention to the regulatory compliance upon the property rights, illegal copying and counterfeiting manners are still taking place in many parts of the world.

There are three types of intellectual property; patents, copyrights, and trademarks. Patent law is made to provide legal protection for individual invention demonstrating technological advance for human. Copyrights law is to protect a vast array of literary and artistic works, such as paintings, sculpture, poetry, musical compositions, photographs, motion pictures, TV program, computer software programs, and many more.

Meanwhile, trademark law is provisioned to protect words, slogans, and symbols serving to identify different brands of goods and services in market. After all, those forms of legal protection are still under the challenge of making them applied thoroughly with the support of authorities and people.

The Registry is an administrative agency created to protect intellectual property rights of authors and other owners on the creations of literary, artistic or scientific.

The Registrar General of Intellectual Property is part of the General State Administration under the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport. There are also territorial records managed by the Autonomous Communities who process registrations that occur on their territory.

The Registration is voluntary and therefore the existence of intellectual property rights does not depend on registration: intellectual property rights are born with the creation of the work. The registry is intended to protect intellectual property rights by providing proof of the existence of the work and ownership that has on it who fits.
Another aim of the Register is to publicize the rights which it fits.

What works can be entered in the Register?
In the registry can sign the rights to all works, performances and productions that are protected by copyright law and intellectual property rights that apply to performers, producers of phonograms and audiovisual recordings, institutions broadcasting, creators of photographs and some editorial productions.

However, they can not be registered because they are not protected by copyright law, ideas, procedures, systems, methods of operation or mathematical concepts in themselves, nor the laws or regulations, decisions of the courts, opinions of public bodies and official translations of such texts.

The Registration of Intellectual Property
May apply for registration of works, performances or productions, the authors of them and those who have any intellectual property right.

Registration is effective from the date of filing, except that this request be remedied because some data is missing or document required for processing. In these cases, the registration is effective when these improvements occur.

Registration applications are presented by providing the official application form in duplicate, copy identifying the work, performance or production, in each case documentation is required and proof of payment of the fee.

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In a simple word, intellectual property is defined as creative works that have economic value. Being protected by law, intellectual property is prevented from any illegal copying, performing, or distributing the works without appropriate permission. The primary objective of such legal protection is to provide incentives and honor for individual producers to crease more and more scientific and creative works benefiting the society.

There are two model of legal protection toward the creative works; first, intellectual property with the automatic legal protection from the beginning of creation, second, procedural process of requesting for legal protection of certain intellectual property rights to a government agency. Due to the fact that there are still many nations give lack of attention to the regulatory compliance upon the property rights, illegal copying and counterfeiting manners are still taking place in many parts of the world.

There are three types of intellectual property; patents, copyrights, and trademarks. Patent law is made to provide legal protection for individual invention demonstrating technological advance for human. Copyrights law is to protect a vast array of literary and artistic works, such as paintings, sculpture, poetry, musical compositions, photographs, motion pictures, TV program, computer software programs, and many more.

Meanwhile, trademark law is provisioned to protect words, slogans, and symbols serving to identify different brands of goods and services in market. After all, those forms of legal protection are still under the challenge of making them applied thoroughly with the support of authorities and people.