Trade Mark is a name or symbol adopted for identifying goods     Public can identify…

 Meant for beautifying an industrial product to attract the consumer public     Shaping, Configuration or…

1.   Derived from the Latin word ‘LITTERAE PATENTES’ which means ‘Open Letters’ or ‘Open Documents’ to…

Intellectual Property is a product of the human intellect that has commercial value Many of…

-    Discrimination generally means preference on the grounds of sex, race, skin color, age or religious outlook. -    In everyday speech, it has come to mean morally unjustified treatment of people on arbitrary or irrelevant grounds. -  Therefore to call something ‘Discrimination” is to condemn it.  -  But when the question of justification arises, we will call it ‘Preferential Treatment’.

Employee rights are any rights, moral or legal, that involve the status of being an…

The following actions will prevent/reduce whistle blowing: 1.   Giving  direct  access  to  higher  levels  of management  by announcing  ‘open  door’ policies with guarantee that there won’t be retaliation. Instead such employees should be rewarded for fostering ethical behavior in the company. 2.    This   gives   greater   freedom   and   promotes   open   communication   within   the organization. 3.   Creation of an Ethics Review Committee with freedom to investigate complaints and make independent recommendations to top management. 4.   Top priority should be given to promote ethical conduct in the organization by top management. 5.   Engineers should be allowed to discuss in confidence, their moral concerns with the ethics committee of their professional societies. 6.   When  there are differences  on ethical  issues between  engineers  and  management, ethics committee members of the professional societies should be allowed to enter into these discussions. 7.   Changes  and  updations  in  law  must  be  explored  by  engineers,  organizations, professional societies and government organizations on a continuous basis.

Richard T. De George suggests the following: 1.   The harm that will be done by the product to the public is serious…

• Except for extreme emergencies, always try working through normal organizational channels. • Be prompt in expressing…

External Whistle blowing: The act of passing on information outside the organization. Internal  Whistle  blowing:  The  act  of  passing  on  information  to  someone  within  the organization but outside the approved channels. Either type is likely to be considered as disloyalty, but the second one is often seen as less serious than the latter. From corporations’ point of view both are serious because it leads to distrust, disharmony, and inability of the employees to work together. Open  Whistle  blowing:  Individuals  openly  revealing  their  identity  as  they  convey  the information. Anonymous Whistle blowing: Individual conveying the information conceals his/her identity.