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Answer: Gives its owner exclusive right to manufacture and sell a patented item or to use a process for 20 years.…
1. Question : Student Answer: (TCO C) The cost of an intangible asset includes all of the following except purchase price. legal fees. other incidental expenses.…
Intellectual Property is an area of law that protects ideas in the areas of: Copyright, Trademarks, Industrial Design, and Patents. Some examples of trademarks are logos, names, pictures, words, themes, phrases, and even a combination of colors and…
intellectual property: The right to use the good, The right to earn income from the good, The right to transfer the…
5. A patent is a right granted to the inventor of a product or process that excludes others from making, using, or selling inventions.…
Sometimes market activities (production, buying, and selling) have unintended positive or negative effects outside the market's scope. These are called externalities. As a policy maker concerned with correcting the effects of gases and particulates emitted by and local power plant, answer the following questions:…
Intellectual property rights refer to a design or creation that any individual has created and documented down in a way such as music, inventions or lyrics. As the owner of the work you have created you naturally inherit certain rights dependant on the nature of the work you have thought of. I think this is a fair and rewarding process to the inventor. It also gives an incentive for others to put there ideas forward to gain a money to cover the purchasing of any research or resources they would have had to buy. More detail of this can be found available at…
A free market prevents a monopoly because it does not allow someone or, some company, to corner the market. There is always someone else that is willing to make or sell a product for the same or lesser price. For instance, in a free market there is not just one phone or cable company providing television or phone service. Other companies are allowed by law to provide those same services. Since the goal of the people who started those companies are out to make money. They are going to provide television and phone at a competitive price to draw consumers to them. Up until the middle 1980’s Bell telephone companies had a monopoly across the United States, until the government came back and split up the AT&T Corporation into separate companies. Now there are companies such as AT&T, Verizon, Qwest, BellSouth, Southwestern Bell, and Ameritech. If there were not people or companies like this willing to start competing companies for their own “greed”. Consumers wouldn’t have a choice and would be forced to all take their business to one company, in turn, creating a monopoly.…
Monopolies are firms that are the sole or dominant suppliers of a good or service in a given market. And what sets apart monopolies from competitive firms is “market power”- the ability of a firm to affect the market price.…
In “ In Defense of Piracy(Well, Some Piracy)”, Matthew Ruben states that it is alright to download mp3 in certain circumstances. He reasons firstly that the current marketing strategies of music are making people paying for albums they would not enjoy. He also reasons that between a dilemma of paying unreasonable price for a single and downloading, there is nothing ethically wrong to download than buying a whole CD just for a track. Thus, he reckons that pirating mp3 single can be a form of protest to the music industry on resisting hype. Though these reasons seem attractive, especially to the general public, Ruben has not taken into account of the devastating effects of piracy has on to the music industry and that piracy is flat, adulterated theft (Gary Locke, 2010).…
A slight inkling of antitrust by the consumers can easily destroy a company’s reputation; bring down years of hard work and dedication. This paper highlights the case of Apple Inc. There was a recent case US vs. Apple, that has been on news media. “The Justice Department today released some of the comments it received regarding the ongoing Apple e-book price-fixing case, and many of those opposed to the deal argued that the alleged price fixing helped stop Amazon 's stronghold on the e-book market (Albanesius, 2012)”…
When analyzing the legal issues of e-business and intellectual property, one must include privacy, ethics and security. The U.S. has well developed systems of licensing that protects patents, trademarks and copyrights. Each has its own set of rules and procedures. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) of the Department of Commerce issues patents and trademark registrations. Any person who invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture or composition of matter or any new and useful improvements of these may obtain a U.S. patent. The Patent laws make no distinctions based on the inventors citizenship. It is legal and customary to require employees to assign their patent rights to their employers. The basic law specifying the subject matter for which a patent might be obtained and the conditions for patentability took effect in 1953 (Title 45 of the US Code). The Ominbus Trade…
Answer Question 1 from the study questions at the end of Chapter 8 in the text: "No firm is completely sheltered from rivals; all firms compete for consumer dollars. If that is so, then pure monopoly does not exist. Do you agree?" Fully explain your answer in a way that shows your understanding of “monopolies.”…
Kudler Fine Foods is a gourmet establishment. The first store was opened in 1998 and was such a success that many more will be opening. This gourmet shop was created in the vision the owner was searching for: a place where gourmet foods can be purchased at an affordable price. Kudler Fine Foods employs many employees. These employees have rights that must be adhered to.…