Hospitalityduo
One or more aspects or foundations of any business can be licensed in attempts of protecting the ideas and originality that are unique to that particular business. A lot of things like services or recipes of a particular thing are very hard to license as you need to prove to the correct department that you were the original conceptual creator. The main thing that is of ease to license is a brand name. The best way to explain is this. I come up with a concept and name for a business that i want to open in Australia, but could potentially open in Bali and Thailand. The concept would be near to impossible to license. The name however, can be licensed in each country I intend to open it in. This way if someone likes the sound of the business I open in Sydney next month opens a similar restaurant in Bali and tries to take the name, before I get round to opening the second franchise I can sue them because I've already licensed the intellectual property for the name.
samsiam
But I can just change the name and do the same shit in Thailand....cos highly unlikely the majority have been to your shop in Sydney and then say to themselves while on holiday in Bangkok....oh, I fell like a unique burger, wonder where that unique burger shop is......so then I just open my own unique burger shop same same but different.Hope that is not the name by the way for your burger joint cos its on all the tshirts already.Back to my sad life.....go make my shed door this week, start packing, go surfing, plan 2 month roady across america...
Hospitalityduo
Yes they can but no more than for example body works in Seminyak and then there's the similar imitators, one even daring to call themselves beauty works. It really only works in combination with offering a superior product or service. McDonald's is a great example. There's heaps of places that sell that rubber food, but McDonald's holds the intellectual property for a consistent product. If your somewhere foreign, nine times out of ten you'll choose the familiar and consistent over something unknown. Confidence in what your offering is the key to determining wether you should license it. I'm envious of your sad life Siam, The US is amazing and would kill for a Williamsburg bagel, right now.
JohnnyCool
It's like this, weird one. I thought I asked two [I]very[/I] relevant questions and your "response" was to take umbrage at the phrase "pissing in the wind", as if that's some kind of measurement of intelligence.Vocabulary is a very useful thing in life, language acquisition and communication. The more you have of it, the more ways one can express one's thoughts.Your endless dodging and weaving reminds me of a failed lawyer, (with all your pseudo legalspeak), or maybe just a plain and talent-challenged scam artist (or as some might say in Sydney - a bullshit artist). I do, however, admire your trying to take on the more vocal members on this forum (with [I]their[/I] legitimate questions). No "takers" yet? Might be time to "bugger off" from here and find suckers somewhere else.I say this, [I]including[/I] my colloquial phrases, as one who has degrees in English language/literature, psychology and computer sciences....I probably wouldn't have answered the question to someone that vocabulary includes pissing in the wind...[/QUOTE]The word "[B]that[/B]" in the above quote [B]should[/B] have been "[B]whose[/B]", the possessive interrogative pronoun, if you like.My last "advice" for you is to [B]stop pissing in the wind[/B].How say you?:icon_eek:
Hospitalityduo
I think you should find a hobby
Rangi
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samsiam
At least he is having a go and not on the dole in Sydney...sniffing glue and lining up for rental assistance.I hope.
Hospitalityduo
Having an extremely media focused career at the top of my industry, criticism is definitely not new, nor does it phase me. But this thread aside, most critics usually have integrity and tact. I guess that's why the last few people who posted aren't critics or anybody for that matter. Tomorrow's a new day and the day of the formation of the company. So Im going to wish you all well and would like to say it's been a pleasure, but am greatful for the posts that seeded any thought of challenge. Siam NB only in my free time.
JohnnyCool
I guess you'll need to re-focus your "media career", and take your bullshit somewhere else.Thanks for your input here. Oh - and you only sniff glue [I]some[/I] of the time?Could have fooled me.Tomorrow is indeed a new day. Hopefully without you in it.:eagerness:
samsiam
I must say OP...the continual PM's you sent me...verged on begging and were very amateurish. .....solly.
no.idea
I am still interested in the "intellectual property". I am worried if I was was to buy another property and suddenly find out that I have purchased the dumbest property in the area I would be emotionally shattered.How can a purchaser check if a property is intellectual or simply has the IQ of a turnip?Of course many locals here do not understand about intellectual properties. My group of villas are built in the area which was once a lepers colony, I was told that I would only fail. Maybe some of the lepers buried underneath me were intellectuals.
Joe Writeson
Just wondering if a pretty stupid property can become an 'Intellectual Property' if some clever trousers lives there for a while, as in, the cinder blocks and timbers are usually drinking beer and playing dominoes all day, Oscar Wilde moves in and suddenly the dry course is quoting Proust and the rafters are sumarising Balzac...
samsiam
Is Balzac a prozac copy ?
Joe Writeson
Is Balzac a prozac copy ?[/QUOTE]duuhhhhh...what a dope! He plays for Chelsea of course...
