Competition puts island on the world IP map
Friday 19th February 2010, 2:30PM GMT.
GUERNSEY has secured itself a world intellectual property first.
The schools competition, Guernsey’s Got Genius, which was announced locally back in December, and aims to promote intellectual property awareness to the next generation of business leaders and the island’s workforce, has become the first World IP Day event announced on the World Intellectual Property Organisation website.
The competition was the brainchild of the Intellectual Property Office, in partnership with AO Hall Advocates and Stanleys Patent Attorneys. It calls on children in Years 7 to 13 to come up with an invention, design, logo or product that demonstrates ingenuity.
AO Hall partner Elaine Gray said all of the organisers were delighted that Guernsey had become the first country internationally to have its event announced on the website.
‘This competition highlights how important IP is in the real world and is designed to help the children of today become the entrepreneurs of tomorrow by understanding what IP is and how to protect it,’ said Advocate Gray (pictured).
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The title of this article is deceptive, IP is universally accepted as the abbreviation for “Internet Protocol”, and not for “intellectual property”
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Joshua – intellectual property was the commonly used meaning of IP a long time before the age of the internet.
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Another unneccesary States dept trying to justify why it is costing the taxpayers money. How much does this dept cost p.a.? How much revenue does it generate? Is the islands IP needs already covered by the private sector?
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Universally accepted?…
For computer nerds, IP = Internet Protocol
For legal nerds, IP = Intellectual Property
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Oxford Dictionary
IP
abbreviation Computing
Internet protocol, the method by which information is sent between any two Internet computers on the Internet.
Wikipedia
IP
IP is the usual abbreviation for Internet Protocol. It is also a common abbreviation for different things in different fields.
IP may also refer to: *list does not include intellectual property*
Cambridge Dictionary
Results for IP
IP was found in the Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary at the entries listed below.
* IP address noun
* IP number noun, at IP address (noun)
Merriam Webster
Main Entry: IP
Function: abbreviation
1 initial point
2 innings pitched
3 intermediate pressure
4 Internet protocol
Dictionary.com
IP
abbr. Internet Protocol
SO when I say universally accepted, I am at least correct in saying it is universally accepted, by the sources which define words, and then some.
So if it WAS or if you still think it IS doesn’t make it right, it still makes it deceptive on the terms of people who define their words using a dictionary service.
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