| intellectual property Jul 8th 2013, 00:21, by ReidAA | | | | Line 9: | Line 9: | | | |title=[http://www.economist.com/news/business/21579011-president-proposes-new-round-intellectual-property-reform-obama-goes-troll-hunting Obama goes troll-hunting] | | |title=[http://www.economist.com/news/business/21579011-president-proposes-new-round-intellectual-property-reform-obama-goes-troll-hunting Obama goes troll-hunting] | | | |passage=According to this saga of '''intellectual-property''' misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.}} | | |passage=According to this saga of '''intellectual-property''' misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.}} | | | + | #*{{quote-magazine|date=2013-06-22|volume=407|issue=8841|page=68|magazine={{w|The Economist}} | | | + | |title=[http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21579860-g8-pledges-tackle-three-ts-t-time T time] | | | + | |passage=The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating '''intellectual property''' in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies. […] current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] "stateless income": profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.}} | | | | | | | | ====Abbreviations==== | | ====Abbreviations==== |
Latest revision as of 00:21, 8 July 2013 English[edit] Wikipedia intellectual property (uncountable) - Any product of someone's intellect that has commercial value: copyrights, patents, trademarks and trade secrets.
- 2013 June 8, "Obama goes troll-hunting", The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:
- According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.
- 2013 June 22, "T time", The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:
- The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies. […] current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] "stateless income": profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.
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