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Chapter 9: Q 13 (page 232)

What legal mechanisms protect intellectual property?

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The legal mechanisms that protect intellectual property are:

(i) Copyright

(ii) Trademark

(iii) Patent

(iv) Trade secrets.

Step by step solution

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Step 1. Meaning of intellectual property.

Intellectual property is ownership over ideas, images, or concepts that grant the creator of original work exclusive rights for its use and distribution.

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Step 2. Legal mechanisms for Intellectual Property.

The legal mechanisms that protect intellectual property are:

(i) Patents: A government rule that gives the inventor the exclusive legal right to make, use, or sell the invention for a limited time.

(ii) Copyrights: A form of legal protection to prevent copying, for commercial purposes, original works of authorship,

including books and music.

(iii) Trademarks: An identifying symbol or name for a particular good and can only be used by the firm that registered that

trademark.

(iv) Trade secrets: The manufacturing firm's production methods are kept a secret.

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2. Classify the following as a government-enforced barrier to entry, a barrier to entry that is not government-enforced, or a situation that does not involve a barrier to entry.

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