Pastaruoju metu galima pastebėti tendencingą prekių ženklo reikšmės didėjimą tiek vietinėje, tiek regioninėje, tiek ir tarptautinėje prekyboje, todėl kiekvienas prekių ženklo savininkas yra skatinamas skirti vis didesnį dėmesį tinkamam savo prekių ženklo valdymui bei apsaugai. Bendrijos prekių ženklo apsaugos sistema suteikia registruotam prekių ženklui apsaugą visoje Europos Sąjungos teritorijoje. Žymeniui, galinčiam tapti prekių ženklu ir naudotis Bendrijos prekių ženklo sistemos garantuojama apsauga, yra keliami gana aukšti grafinės išraiškos ir skiriamojo pobūdžio reikalavimai. Šie reikalavimai yra tenkinamai, jei žymens grafinė išraiška yra aiški, apibrėžta, išbaigta, lengvai prieinama, suprantama, ilgalaikė ir objektyvi, o žymens skiriamasis pobūdis leidžia aiškiai identifikuoti prekių ar paslaugų kilmę. / Recently it is possible to notice the tendentious increase of trade mark’s importance in local, regional and international market, therefore every trade mark proprietor shall be motivated to pay more and more attention to proper management and protection of their trade mark. Community Trade Mark’s Protection System provides the protection for the registered trade mark within the entirely territory of the European Union. Sign, capable of being a trade mark and using the guaranteed protection of the Community Trade Mark Protection System, shall follow the high requirements of graphical representation and distinctiveness. These requirements are fulfilled provided that the graphical representation is clear, precise, self-contained, easily accessible, intelligible and objective, where the distinctiveness of the sign allows clearly identify the origin of goods and services. Community Trade Mark proprietors may be every natural or legal person, including authorities established under public law. The rights of Community Trade Mark proprietor may be divided into the following main groups: (1) exclusive rights; and (2) ownership rights to the trade mark. The exclusive rights of the proprietor allows to prohibit all third parties without the permission of the proprietor from using in the course of trade the sign, which is identical or similar to the Community Trade Mark and which may confuse a consumer. When providing the proprietor of the trade mark with the respective rights, it is... [to full text]

Šio magistro baigiamojo darbo tikslas yra atlikti išsamią ženklo pripažinimo plačiai žinomu kriterijų analizė, išskiriant ir nurodant svarbiausius šio statuso aspektus. Magistro baigiamojo darbo tyrimo objektas yra kriterijai, galintys būti reikšmingais sprendžiant dęl prekių ženklo pripažinimo plačiai žinomu. Magistro baigiamajame darbe naudojant lyginamąją, analizės, sisteminį – loginį, istorinį, lingvistinį metodus buvo analizuojami tarptautiniai, Europos Sąjungos ir nacionaliniais teisės aktais, užsienio bei Lietuvos teismų praktika, teisės specialistų moksliniai darbai. Ypatingas dėmesys skiriamas Paryžiaus sąjungos dėl pramoninės nuosavybės apsaugos asamblėjos ir Pasaulinės intelektinės nuosavybės organizacijos generalinės asamblėjos 1999 m. priimtai bendrai rekomendacijai dėl plačiai žinomų ženklų apsaugos (angl. Joint Recommendation Concerning Provisions on the Protection of Well – Known Marks). / The main goal of this master thesis is to make particular analysis of the criteria of the well-known trademark by showing and setting main aspects of this status. The object of this master thesis is criteria, which can be significant defining trade mark as well-known trademark. Using comparative, analytical, systematic – logical, historical, linguistic methods were analyzed international, European Union and national law acts/certificates, foreign and Lithuanian court practice, researches of law professionals. Particular attention and consideration was given to Joint Recommendation Concerning Provisions on the Protection of Well – Known Marks adopted in 1999.

As result of the Contrapunctus European project the design of the Braille Music Mark-up as an XML representation of a music scores in Braille has been carried out. We propose a design of a prototype system for translating these kinds of files into spoken music encoded in DAISYXML. In this way any blind musician may be able to memorize any Braille score using a DAISY reader. Therefore the dependency of reading BMML files in front of a computer would be eliminated. This is a first work on feasibility which will be improved and managed by a working group.

Traditional trade marks, such as words and figures, have for a long time constituted of visual signs. However, due to the evolution of modern technology and changing marketing methods, non-traditional trade marks have been increasing in todays highly competitive market.1 Consequently, the evolution created legal uncertainties in the European Union (EU) since in order to register a trade mark, it had to be represented graphically. This requirement was difficult to achieve for some non-traditional trade marks which were perceived through other sensed than the sight. On the 1 October 2017, requirement for graphical representation has been amended in the EU Trade Mark Regulation 2017/10012 by a technical neutral requirement which opens up possibilities for registration of European Union trade marks in a more suitable way, using generally available technology. The purpose of this thesis has been to analyse how the abolition of graphical representation and the new wider requirement will affect the registration of non-traditional trade marks in the EU. Signs which have been analysed in the frame of this thesis are: sound, olfactory, three-dimensional, colour, motion, multimedia, holograms, pattern, tactile and taste marks. Conclusively, I found that the technical neutral registration requirement has opened up possibilities for trade mark holders to register new types of marks like multimedia marks. Moreover, it has simplified the registration process for already accepted non-traditional trade marks such as hologram, motion and sound marks. However, the reform has hardly affected the registration process of colour, pattern and three-dimensional marks since their biggest challenge with the registration have been the requirement for distinctiveness. Furthermore, it is currently still not possible to register olfactory, tactile and taste marks. Though the new and flexible amendments indicate that those types of marks may be more easily registered in the future.

This research has the objective to explore the concept of faith in the Gospel of Mark. An exegetical investigation of the faith terminology (pist-word group) in the Gospel is required for that. An analysis of the model passages with occurrences of the motword group shows the variety of possible connotations of the term. The most paradigmatic of them are in the sense of trust in God [which means to be open towards the highest reality]. Comparison of the results of the analysis with the concept of faith in the Old Testament, Classical Greek, and Hellenistic Greek is helpful to understand the etymology of the Markan use of the pist-word group and to make clear the conceptual meaning of faith in the Gospel which is closer to the Old Testament idea of an active commitment to God expressed in a continuous existence in the presence of Him. / New Testament / M. Th. (New Testament)

Nous étudions dans cette thèse le partage des risques financiers dans un système bancaire islamique, dans un cadre d'analyse construit autour de deux prescriptions du droit musulman : l'interdiction du Riba et du Gharar. Nous étudions d'abord les contrats de partage, en s'intéressant à leur rôle en tant qu'actif et à la répartition du risque qui en découle. Notre travail porte ensuite sur la dominance des contrats à marge bénéficiaire dans la pratique actuelle des institutions financières islamiques. Nous analysons également la structure de capital de la banque islamique, notamment le rôle des comptes d'investissement rémunérés qu'elle propose, qui lui apportent une flexibilité importante, tout en l'exposant à certains risques. Nous montrons que l'intervention d'un régulateur est cruciale pour que la banque islamique puisse bénéficier des avantages des comptes d'investissement, sur le plan de la solvabilité et la liquidité. / We analyze in this thesis the financial risk-sharing in an Islamic banking system. We build an analytical framework based on two provisions of Islamic law of contracts: the prohibition of Riba and Gharar. First, we analyze profit-sharing contracts, focusing on their role as an asset and their risk allocation. We also explain the dominance of mark-up contracts in the current practice of Islamic financial institutions. We then analyze the capital structure of Islamic banks, focusing on non-remunerated guaranteed accounts and their flexibility. We show the central place of the regulator in producing the necessaries conditions of good uses of these resources.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:33:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 GuilhermeSTL_DISSERT.pdf: 1475192 bytes, checksum: e65beea4cb536812b8ea5ab3d2ea3fcb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-02-26 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / A sobreviv?ncia de adultos ? um par?metro chave nos estudos de hist?ria natural e de demografia das aves, no entanto, apenas ~ 4% das esp?cies de aves neotropicais residentes t?m suas taxas de sobreviv?ncia estimadas. Al?m disso, pouco se conhece da influ?ncia de fatores ambientais e sazonais sobre este par?metro. Os objetivos deste estudo foram estimar taxas de sobreviv?ncia de adultos, e o tamanho populacional de Elaenia cristata (Aves: Tyrannidae), bem como poss?veis varia??es em curto prazo nesses par?metros. Durante dois anos, capturamos, marcamos e recapturamos 43 indiv?duos adultos em um fragmento de mata de restinga em Parnamirim, RN. Com aux?lio do programa MARK, utilizamos os modelos de Desenho Robusto para estimar os par?metros de interesse. Geramos modelos testando a influ?ncia das seguintes covari?veis sobre a sobreviv?ncia: tempo, ciclo reprodutivo e pluviosidade entre se??es de captura. As estimativas populacionais foram geradas apenas em fun??o do tempo. De acordo com o melhor modelo, a sobreviv?ncia aparente permaneceu constante ao longo do estudo e o tamanho populacional variou entre as se??es. A sobreviv?ncia intra-anual foi estimada em 0,94 ? 0,03, que corresponde a uma probabilidade de sobreviv?ncia anual de 78%. As estimativas populacionais variaram de 24 ? 1,87 indiv?duos em novembro/2010, a 15 ? 1,89 em fevereiro/2011. Nossa estimativa de sobreviv?ncia anual para E. cristata est? entre as maiores registradas dentre aves tropicais, e contribui com a observa??o geral de que a sobreviv?ncia anual ? maior nos tr?picos que no hemisf?rio Norte. Apesar de associadas a grandes intervalos de confian?a, as estimativas populacionais apresentaram diferentes tend?ncias entre 2011 e 2012. Acreditamos que os baixos n?veis de precipita??o no in?cio de 2012, aliados ? presen?a em grande abund?ncia da esp?cie migrante Elaenia chilensis, tenham diminu?do a oferta de recursos e aumentado a competi??o interespec?fica, provocando uma dispers?o de adultos da ?rea de estudo

Nesta dissertação, busca-se analisar os elementos dramatúrgicos constituintes da polêmica peça Shopping and Fucking (1996), do dramaturgo britânico Mark Ravenhill, relacionando suas características de forma e conteúdo e seus decorrentes imbricamentos. O ponto de partida dessa empreitada encontra-se não somente em obras teóricas importantes da crítica de literatura, teatro e cultura de autoria de Peter Szondi, Anatol Rosenfeld, Roberto Schwarz e Fredric Jameson, mas também nas de autores mais estreitamente vinculados às ciências econômicas e à crítica do sistema mundial como Ernst Mandel e Robert Kurz. Podemos, por meio dessa análise, concluir que Ravenhill é capaz de retratar por meio da configuração da peça aspectos simultaneamente relacionados tanto à subjetividade quanto à sociedade contemporâneas ambas em estado de crise permanente. Na primeira parte da dissertação, procura-se introduzir historicamente a peça, o teatro In-yer-face e o período Thatcher. Na segunda parte, destacam-se principalmente os temas presentes abordados em relação à forma. Na terceira, há uma predominância da análise formal e observa-se a presença de elementos épicos que, algumas vezes desvirtuados, desestruturam a forma puramente dramática. Constatação essa que, segundo levantamento bibliográfico realizado, ainda não havia sido defendida por críticos que se debruçaram sobre a obra desse dramaturgo. E, na quarta parte, nas considerações finais, procura-se entender a forma e a sua respectiva correspondência com o contexto sócio-histórico segundo as considerações analíticas levantadas nos capítulos anteriores. / In this dissertation, our goal is to analyze the theatrical elements that constitute the controversial play Shopping and Fucking (1996), by the British playwright Mark Ravenhill, relating its characteristics of form and content and their resulting intersections. The focus lies not only on the important theoretical works of literature, theatre and culture critique by Peter Szondi, Anatol Rosenfeld, Roberto Schwarz and Fredric Jameson, but also on those of authors more closely tied to economics and world system critics such as Ernst Mandel and Robert Kurz. The analysis concludes that Ravenhill simultaneously relates aspects of subjectivity and the contemporary society both in a state of permanent crisis. The first part of the dissertation introduces the play, the In-yer-face theatre and the Thatcher period. The second part emphasizes the themes presented addressed in relation to the form. The third part stresses the predominance of formal analysis, in which epic elements, somewhat garbled, deconstruct the dramatical form. Nevertheless, according to bibliographical research, such an analysis has not been developed, to the present day, by critics familiar with Ravenhill\'s theatrical works. In the concluding chapter an understanding is sought towards the plays form and its correspondences with the socio-historical context following our previous analysis.

In House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski has produced a text which epitomises the traits and concerns of postmodernist literature. Through his attention to aspects such as metafiction, intertextuality and parody, Danielewski develops a narrative structure which is best understood as a literary labyrinth. It is a structure intended to reflect the social conditions of the twenty-first century and comment on the experience of people living at this time. Some of the meaning-making strategies within the book’s labyrinthine structure are thus discussed in detail in order to demonstrate the relevance and importance of House of Leaves as social commentary. House of Leaves is an exemplary postmodernist text, but it is also one that seeks to guide the reader beyond the intellectual impasse of the postmodernist paradigm toward a renewed ethical and political engagement with the world. One of the most important goals of both Danielewski’s novel and this thesis is to attempt to redefine the postmodernist perspective in such a way as to insist on the necessity of what I call a new realism. This is founded upon an awareness of the pervasiveness of the self-perpetuating ideology of capitalism, even in the perspective of postmodernism (which purports to subvert all authoritative ideologies). Playing a crucial role in perpetuating the status quo of capitalism is the growth of entertainment culture, which works to sideline crucial political issues by replacing information with infotainment. The result is an intensification of the processes of commodification. Such an intensification, it is argued, may be countered by a radical scepticism which draws upon the methods and insights of contemporary science.

Spinner dolphins (Stenella longirostris) were surveyed and photographed during the Spring/Summer of 2004-2007 in the Southern Tañon Strait region of the Philippines. Over 17,000 images of dorsal fins were taken during the study period for photoidentification purposes. The study area (approximately 100 Km2) is a popular site for cetacean-watching and more recently underwent oil exploration and drilling. A photographic database of 329 unique spinner dolphin dorsal fins was produced, and used to assess abundance and life history characteristics using DARWIN software. An overall abundance estimate (2004-2007) of 1118 individuals (990-1246 with a 95% confidence interval) was obtained using the POPAN feature of MARK software. These mark-recapture results reveal that approximately 28% (n= 92) of the identified individuals (n= 329) were present in the study area in at least two of the four study years. This information is necessary to gain a better understanding of the ecology and life history characteristics of small cetaceans in the Tafton Strait, and in the development of conservation, education, and habitat protection programs designed to protect these cetaceans from human impacts. This project is part of a long-term ongoing study of the small cetaceans in the Southern Tañon Strait.