How to protect your intellectual property. Intellectual property is something you create that’s unique.
It includes copyright, patents, designs and trade marks, and can be: something you invent, like a new product a product’s design or appearance a brand or logo written work, like content on a website or in a brochure artistic work, like photography or illustrations film recordings or musical compositions computer software You can’t protect an idea but you can often protect what you do with it, eg you can’t protect an idea for a book but you can protect the words you’ve written. Who owns intellectual property You or your business usually own the intellectual property if you create something. Contracts with employees and subcontractor should say who owns the intellectual property of anything they create for you.
Protecting your intellectual property allows you to: stop others using what you’ve created without your permission charge others for the right to use what you’ve created Types of protection. How to Understand Planning Permissions and Zoning in Brazil. When making an investment in land in North East Brazil there are many factors to consider.
Is the land near an expanding city? What is the population growth in the area and in which direction is it heading geographically? Is your proposed purchase in a historically poor and underprivileged area? Or is it in a high demographic and desirable area? Where is the major airport positioned? But the most fundamental aspect to consider is what planning permission the land has. There are many terms used to describe the planning permission that a parcel of land may have. The exact condition of the planning permission on the land is one of the main indicators of value, as a square mete of rural scrubland is virtually worthless, whereas a square metre of rural scrubland that has outline consent for construction in place is more valuable and marketable. Each individual state has its own environmental agency: Sudema in Paraiba, Sernace in Ceara and Idema in Rio Grande do Norte.
Court Orders Internet Marketers of Acai Berry Weight-Loss Pills and "Colon Cleansers" to Stop Deceptive Advertising and Unfair Billing Practices. At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a U.S. district court has ordered the marketers of acai berry supplements, “colon cleansers,” and other products to temporarily halt an Internet sales scheme that allegedly scammed consumers out of $30 million or more in 2009 alone through deceptive advertising and unfair billing practices.
The FTC will seek a permanent prohibition. Since 2007, victimized consumers have flooded law enforcement agencies and the Better Business Bureau with more than 2,800 complaints about the company. Acai berry supplements, derived from acai palm trees that are native to Central and South America, have become popular in recent years. Last year, the Better Business Bureau named fake “free” trial offers – including those for acai supplements offered by the defendants in this case – as one of the “Top 10 Scams and Rip Offs of 2009.”
“Too many ‘free’ offers come with strings attached,” said David Vladeck, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection. Starting a Business in Brazil. Obtain the INSS (National Institute of Social Security) For registering a company before the Institute of Social Security (INSS), it is necessary to present to the INSS the company's Articles of Association registered before the Register of Commerce of State of São Paulo and the CNPJ Certificate.
The Normative Rule (IN) n. 748, of June 28, 2007 was revoked and substituted by the Normative Rule n. 1183, of August 19, 2011. In such normative, it is not expressly mentioned that relevant companies shall obtain licenses from CETESB and/or Sanitary Surveillance Department. Furthermore the Resolution SF/SMA 1 of November 27, 2009 is the normative regulation that determines the need of obtaining the Installation License in order to the company to obtain the taxpayer's registry and also establishes which activities are subject to the environmental licensing before being rendered with the taxpayer's registry number. Brief article re: outsourcing.
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