Operations management

Table of Contents

1. Topic pack - Operations management - introduction
2. Operations Management (OM) - Introduction
3. 5.1 Production methods notes
4. 5.1 Production methods - questions
5. 5.2 Costs and revenues - notes
6. 5.2 Costs and revenues - questions
7. 5.3 Break-even analysis - notes
8. 5.3 Break-even analysis - questions
9. 5.3 Break-even analysis - simulations and activities
10. 5.4 Quality assurance - notes
11. 5.4 Quality assurance - questions and activities
12. 5.5 Location - notes
13. Innovation - notes (HL only)
    1. Innovation
    2. Case study - Xerox
    3. Research and development (R&D)
    4. Pharmaceutical companies - a new contract
    5. Innovation and R&D
    6. Europe moving in R&D slow lane
    7. Canadian apparel companies dress for success
    8. R&D - costs and benefits
    9. Patents, copyrights and trademarks
    10. Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
    11. Digital Rights
    12. China: The Intellectual-Property Battleground
    13. Factors affecting Innovation
    14. Case study - 3M corporation
14. 5.6 Innovation - questions
15. 5.7 Production planning - notes
16. 5.7 Production planning - questions
17. 5.8 Project management - notes (HL only)
18. 5.8 Project management - questions (HL only)
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Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)

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• Types of intellectual property rights

Additional IP protections

Firms and/or individuals may also protect their IP in other ways, such as drawing up a confidentiality or non-disclosure agreements (NDA). A firm may need to discuss its invention with other people including lawyers, consultants, potential investors or consultants before applying for patent, so it is important that the details of the invention are not disclosed to others by those individuals or firms.

It is also possible for a firm to use technological measures to prevent illegal uses of its copyright material, such as encryption or copy protection. If a firm uses such additional protections, it has the right to take legal action against a person or firm, which gets round the measures or makes, sells or deals in devices specifically designed to get round the technical measures.