Jaspers felt himself personally threatened by Heidegger's infamous decision to support the Nazis, as he was married to a Jewish woman, and he had previously attached himself to eminent liberal politicians and philosophers, most notably Weber, who were now vilified by Heidegger and other intellectuals attached to the NSDAP.
But Unilever, one of the first companies to promise to end the use of plastic microbeads, offered a lead in the form of a 1972 patent to protect the intellectual property attached to plastic microbeads used as exfoliants.
In a business world undergoing profound and disruptive change, ideas and the intellectual property attached to them are becoming the only asset that an organisation is defined by.
The only exception to this might be if the plan has intellectual property attached to it such as a patent that will be applied or a trade secret process that will be leveraged.
Significant collections might attract "in-house" scholars; Lucian mocked mercenary Greek intellectuals who attached themselves to philistine Roman patrons.
Can you talk a little bit about your goals with publishing the protocols and not trying to keep intellectual property rights attached to those?
The society's experience highlights the tension between wanting to open up a meeting to all while preserving the intellectual property rights attached to the content.
"The Internet users we consulted mostly seem less enthusiastic about military exploits, diplomatic or political successes, and more attached to civic, intellectual and humanitarian engagement".
He notes that the judge's decision directly attacks part of the subtle legal reasoning behind such patents the notion that intellectual property attaches only to "isolated" DNA sequence, which is a human invention, and not to the DNA in genes that's considered a product of nature (even though the sequences are identical).
