July 2005 Archives

After 20 years of fighting fraud and boosting security at MasterCard, Thomas J. Harkins joins identity management company Edentify as Chief Operating Officer

BETHLEHEM, Pa., July 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Today, Edentify, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: EDFY - News), a leading provider of identity management solutions, announced that former MasterCard International executive Thomas J. Harkins has joined the company as Chief Operating Officer. Harkins will help lead Edentify's business and product development efforts after spending over two decades helping MasterCard's high-profile corporate customers detect and fight fraud, data theft, and other high security risks.

By Salvatore Salamone -

With most pharmaceutical companies counted as customers, and electronic submissions to the FDA requiring documents to be in PDF format, Adobe Systems Inc. is no stranger to the life sciences.

But the company has been reinforcing its ties to the industry with a concerted life science effort that has a dedicated staff of industry experts.

The EU wishes to better protect Intellectual Property in the future. Consequently they have adopted a proposal for guidelines which should call a halt to the increasing numbers of copyright and trademark infringements. These measures aim at more consistency in laws within the EU member states as well as at a closer European-wide collaboration. By adopting theses guidelines the Commission want to put out a clear political signal in the struggle against product and trademark piracy.

By Thomas Mennecke -

Intellectual Property rights are a topic often discussed in file-sharing circles. Of course, the RIAA is holder of most of the Intellectual Property rights (90%) of music bought and sold in the world today. While the RIAA blames file-sharing as the root of its losses, it can take some comfort in knowing it’s not alone.

In fact, the RIAA isn't even close to being alone, as intellectual property theft has truly become an all-encompassing empire. Anything from drugs & medical equipment to computer equipment is a potential counterfeiting target.

How criminals make a killing on fake DVDs

By Stephanie Bell -

PARAMILITARY godfathers and crime bosses are now making more cash from pirate DVDs than drugs.

Loyalist and republican terrorists are raking in a fortune selling copies of Hollywood's latest blockbusters - often before their Northern Ireland releases.

Leading sports lawyer Nick Bitel analyses the implications of the latest court battle between football clubs and commerce

Intellectual property rights? Isn't this all something devised to make a few very rich sportsmen, and their lawyers, richer still?

Intellectual Property Rights are the foundations upon which many businesses are built, but Britain has lagged behind most of the rest of the developed world. Years ago the courts in this country held that personalities (real or fictional) had no rights to prevent others trading off their names unless protected by trade mark or copyright.

By Remmy Nweke -

FOLLOWING the June 30, 2005 announcement by the United States Department of Commerce (DOC) with intent to retain authority on Internet root servers, the global Internet community has been thrown into confusion once again.

Internet, defined as an interconnected system of networks that connects computers around the world via the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) or Internet Protocol (IP) in line with the Internet Technology Dictionary.com.

As reporter learns from the State Work Group on Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) Protection, the Chinese government attaches great importance to IPR protection and has kept intensifying efforts in crackdown on IPR infringement crimes.

The IPR protection campaign takes on five trends in China:

Both registered case number and amount of money involved have increased. Since 1998 the public security organs across China have reported 7,874 registered IPR infringement cases and the number still increases year by year.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia -

In law, particularly in common law jurisdictions, intellectual property or IP refers to a legal entitlement which sometimes attaches to the expressed form of an idea, or to some other intangible subject matter. In general terms this legal entitlement sometimes enables its holder to exercise exclusive control over the use of the IP. The term intellectual property reflects the idea that the subject matter of IP is the product of the mind or the intellect, and that once established, such entitlements are generally treated as equivalent to tangible property, and may be enforced as such by the courts.

A worker sends an office colleague an e-mail with a corporate document attached, but the seeming routine message turns out to harbor a malicious passenger, because the attachment contains hidden pornographic images that were inserted by a hacker during it's transmission over the Internet. When the document is opened by a female employee, she files a lawsuit for sexual harassment.

by Martin Allen -

When laptops were first available, they were treated with great care and attention. To be given a laptop by your company marked you out as someone special. Today, the laptop is commonplace. They are no longer the possession of high powered business executives or IT developers. Everyone from geeks to the occasional home user is moving away from desktop computers to the laptop.

by Jim Kouri -

The Federal Bureau of Investigation and law enforcement from 10 other countries conducted over 90 searches worldwide as part of "Operation Site Down," designed to disrupt and dismantle many of the leading criminal organizations that illegally distribute and trade in copyrighted software, movies, music, and games on the Internet.

Operation Site Down is the culmination of three separate undercover investigations conducted by the FBI. In the past 24 hours, more than 70 searches were executed in the United States, and more than 20 overseas.