Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Survey

Hello, everyone! My name is Itamar, and I'm doing some research on
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) for my dissertation, and I really
could use some help!

So, if you could, please, take a minute of your time to help me
collect some information about issues involving IPR, specially
regarding the INTERACTION DESIGN PROCESS in different countries, I
would really appreciate it:

1- Does your company/office have any specific practice to protect
(IPR), including Copyright, Design Right, Design Registration,
Patents?

2- If YES, how does your company/office disseminate such practices?
(eg. Training? Employee Hand Book?)

3- Are you familiar with how such practices are regulated in your
country? (eg. Legislation? Contracts?)

4- What kind of impact such practices have in the routines you perform
throughout the design process?

5- Was there ever any issue involving IPR on any project you were
involved in?

6- Does your company/office distribute the design process across teams
located in different countries?

7- If YES, are you aware of how does your company/office IPR are
affected by the legislation/practices in those countries?

If you ever come across examples of legislation/contracts that
specific dictates on IPR, I would really appreciate if you could share
those with me.



Thanks in advance for any help,

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