Angelie Flor M. Yamson BSIT-III

Chapter 5 Case Study

1. Your friend is two-time winner of the Ironman Arizona Triathlon (2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike, and 26.2-mile run). He is also a popular and well-known marathon runner throughout the Southwest. He asked you dedsign a Web page to promote the sale of a wide variety of health products, vitamins, food supplements, and clothing targeted at the athletes training to participate in the triathlon. The products will carry his personal trademark. However, much of the information in the Web page will include discussion of his personal success in various traithlons and marathons in which he has competed. Many of these events has corporate sponsors and carry their own trademark. He has asked you if there are any potentails trademark issues with his marketing plans. What would you do?

Answer:

Yes, there are potentials trademark issues to that different company. Because each company has there own trademark infringement. If I given a chance to design it for my friend I will include his success and his accomplishment and I will never include those trademarks from other different sponsor or company because it is the cause of problem.

2. Because of the amount of the expense, your company’s CFO had to approve a $500,000 purchase order for hardware and software needed to upgrade the service used to store data for the Product Development Department. Everyone in the department had expected an automatic approval, and they were disappointed when the purchse order request was turned down. Management said that the business benefits of the expenditure were not clear. Realizing that she needs to develop a more solid business case for the order, the vice president of Product Development has come to you for help. Can you help her identify arguments related to protecting intellectual propertythat might strengthen the business case for this expenditure?

Answer:

For developing a more strong business is must be a team and must be also united to protect the intellectual property because it is very important in the whole world trade.

3. You are interviewing for the role of human resources manager for a large software developer. Over the last year, the firm has lost a number of high-level executives who left the firm to go to work for competitors. During the course of your interview, you are asked what measures you would put in place to reduce the potential loss of trade secret from executives leaving the firm. How would you respond?

Answer:

After interviewing, it would not be spread from other companies for safety and for improvement of others because if other company know what you interviewed and they apply those information you get therefore they improve. So it’s better to be not spreaded. And explain those values of the trade secret. It is all about a trade secret.

Chapter 6 Case Study

1. A former high school classmate of yours who has returned to china emails you that he has been offered a part-time job monitoring a Chinese website and posting comments favorable to the government. How would you respond?

Answer:

I ask her/him to make it sure first before you go it, if it is legal or illegal website. Because as of now many people victims about social media and the comments is just a freedom of speech it is not sure, it is expressing our freedom of speech. And if he/she likes the job I will tell her/him that you should really know first what are those characteristics you stand for and be aware those happen in social media such as libel, freedom of speech and others.

2. Your 15 year old nephew exclaims “Oh wow!” and proceeds to tell you about a very reavealing photo attachment he just received in a text message from his 14 year old girlfriend of three months. He can’t wait to forward the message to others in his school. What would you say to your nephew? Are further steps needed besides a discussion on sexting?

Answer:

I will tell and explain him that you are both too young to have that relationship, which you are not in age of maturity you are still protecting on pornography. And I’ll explain him with a care and love that it is a bad thing when do it because it is a private to discuss about sexting, for you to know that it is not a good thing to play.

3. A college friend of yours approaches you about an idea to start a PR firm that would specialize in monitoring the internet for “Bad PR” about a company and “fixing” it. One tactic the firm would use is to treathen negative posters with a libel lawsuit unless the y removes their posting.  Should that fail, the Pr firm will generate dozens of positive postings to outweigh the negative posting.  What would you say tp your friend about her idea?

Answer:

I agree with the idea of my friend of that monitoring the PR, because it is reducing the libel lawsuit and a libel. I will ask her to immediately give an action to those involves in libel crime.

4.  You are the computer technical resource for country’s public library system. The library is making plans to install internet Filtering Software so that it will conform to the childrens Internet Protection Act and be eligible for federal funding. What sort of objections can you expect regarding implementation of internet filters? How might you deal with such objections?

Answer:

There is some website that you can’t open or you are not allowed to open. I will implement and orient in order to understand the internet filtering for our own good. Internet is not all the time we can get our source of our learning. Because the one who create a software, website and others are human like us, they’ll share their knowledge through creating those I mentioned. And it will make us our source.

5. Imagine that you received a hate email at your school or job. What would you do? Does your school or workplace have a policy that covers such issues?

Answers:

Of course I'm getting hurt and I will report to the head of school to located who is that damn sender. Or else I delete that email and forget what they send and I will put into my mind that they are insecure to me and I really don’t care what they say. What I'm going to do is focus on my study and stop thinking those issues that can turn me down.