In contested product markets, the management of user-related knowledge is therefore critical.
Industry observers are divided on whether patents on trading software are good for the sector, and just how innovative TT's contested product (called MD Trader) really is.
Other defences included claiming no likelihood of consumer confusion between an authorised Navajo clothing item and the pants, using alternate spellings of the word and arguing that the contested product was not a handicraft, Scafidi said.
Millions of dollars have been paid out by companies to settle these cases, and in many instances the word has been dropped from the packaging of contested products such as Ben & Jerry's ice cream, Naked juices and Frito-Lay chips.
Instead, it was the product of human actors the contested creation of retailers, developers, government leaders, architects, and planners, as well as political activists, consumers, civic clubs, real estate appraisers, even postcard artists.
A confident democracy tolerates difference and accepts that what counts as the good life is also the product of disagreement and contested claims; no doubt always a charged and difficult democracy, but also a pre-condition for building solidarities.
Accusations flew about monopolies, but Microsoft contested that Internet Explorer wasn't a product, but just a feature.
Substantively, the Microsoft case presents layers of complexity -- not only the technology of the specific products at issue, but fiercely contested assumptions about the relationship between competition and innovation in the fast-changing technology marketplace.
Although generally recognized as safe by regulators in the United States Food and Drug Administration [27], safety assessment of products from GM crops is a contested issue in Europe [19] and numerous other countries world-wide.
Wall Street analysts focused on the growth in the applications business, given that Oracle introduced a new application product, 11i, last May into the hotly contested market.
Halliday's (1978 , 1994 social semiotic approach to language, Systemic Functional Linguistics (hereafter SFL), suits the context of the present study: it views knowledge as the product of ongoing situated social literacy practices, contested around the meaning making processes.
