Traditional knowledge The most glaring conflict between rich and poor over intellectual property comes from the misappropriation of "traditional knowledge"—such as ancient herbal remedies that find their way into high-priced western pharmaceuticals without the consent of, or compensation to, the people who have used them for generations.
There are many different scams out there, ranging from the misappropriation of Social Security payments to the more old-fashioned practice of ghosting, whereby a person of approximately the same age assumes the identity of the deceased.
Altered expression of genes that are involved in the transcriptional control of developmental pathways often contribute significantly to oncogenesis because cancer can arise from the misappropriation of signalling pathways normally used to control cell fate [ 17].
A series of claims filed in Mississippi last week by Faulkner Literary Rights LLC seeks compensation and damages from roughly 100 people and companies who, it claims, have profited from the illegal misappropriation of the Nobel Prize-winning author's oeuvre.
The "complementary" approach to the classical theory from Chiarella and Dirks is the misappropriation theory, which the court endorsed in United States v. O'Hagan, 521 U.S. 642, 652 (1997).
The indictment alleges that Canada conspired in the misappropriation scheme from 2009 until 2017, a period when she was a senior national vice president and, starting in 2015, CEO of Celerity Educational Group.
There is an echo here of how the Court dealt a few years ago in the Skilling case with "honest services" for mail and wire fraud (which, after all, is where the misappropriation theory came from), narrowing what constitutes the necessary form of deception in relational settings in order to avoid due process and vagueness concerns.
In a video entitled "Don't Cash Crop My Cornrows," she discussed her views on the misappropriation of black culture, from music to hairstyles.
I want to say "thank you" to Harry Zavos for his time, effort and perseverance for bringing to light the misappropriation of taxpayer money from Glendale Water & Power funds ("Redirected funds would cover water-rate hike," Dec. 6).
Earlier this year, the Indian Ocean Newsletter, a subsidiary of the political analysis firm Africa Intelligence, reported that Sambi's successor, Ikililou Dhoinine, was investigating the misappropriation of €24 million from an account opened by the Comoran government at the Central Bank of the UAE in Abu Dhabi for payments made by the UAE government for Comoran passports.
He is accused of involvement in the misappropriation of 16m roubles (£300,000; $500,000) from a timber firm he was advising in 2009 while working as an adviser to Kirov's governor, Nikita Belykh.
