Question

1. Find an article about an intellectual property issue that has occurred recently and discuss it with two references.

Answer 1

Intellectual Property Theft: What Is It?

Intellectual property (IP) theft occurs when someone try to uses your intellectual property for any reason without your permission. Laws protect intellectual property rights, including trademarks, copyrights, and patents. If you have the proper protections, you can sue for money damages.

Why Are Intellectual Property Protections Important?

Intellectual property is the ownership of an innovation, whether it's a commercial product, an artistic creation, a method or formula, unique symbol, logo or name, or other creation or invention. It can involve a range of creations, including but not limited to a Poem, Movie, Song, Industrial machinery, Computer program, Business process etc.

>Although there are intellectual property protections methods such as Copyrights, Trademarks, Trade Secret, Patents etc. Still Intellectual property theft occur because it's easy to do and can be highly profitable.

Types of Intellectual Property Theft:-

.Copyright Theft

.Trade Mark Theft

.Trade Secret Theft

.Patent Theft

There are various ways of reporting and Tracking IP Theft:-

• National Intellectual Rights Coordination Center
• National White Collar Crime Center
• FBI Local Field Offices
• Internet Crime Complaint Center
• Internet Fraud Complaint Center
• National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center
• RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America)
• ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement)
• Postal Inspection Service
• U.S. Food and Drug Administration
• Business Software Alliance

You can also see latest news related internet theft:-

https://www.caixinglobal.com/2019-09-04/huawei-denies-intellectual-property-theft-accusations-101458674.html

https://blog.feedspot.com/intellectual_property_blogs/

References taken from below link:

> https://www.upcounsel.com/intellectual-property-theft

>https://securityprecision.com/ip-theft-your-companys-worse-enemy/