Question

5. Please provide an answer and a brief explanation to each of the following scenarios:

            (a) Sissy, a well known chemist, after years of research developed a chemical substance that can be used as a detergent to remove stains from fabrics. She wants your advice as to how she should protect her invasion.

            (b) Karen, an outdoors enthusiast, developed a device that would prevent any wild animals and reptiles from approaching closer than 100 feet radius from the device. She likes to market her invasion but before she does, she would your advice as to what property protections are available to her based on the type of product she plans to market.

            (c) Mary a successful marketing executive has developed a strategy to successfully market newly developed products overseas. She is afraid that one day her strategy will be revealed or discovered by other professionals in the industry and would like to know what her options are in protecting such successful business idea.

            (d) Tom, a computer savvy, after years of using computers and playing computer games he developed a unique computer game for adult players. Each player of this game can create multiple themes, scenarios, and other imaginable concepts as part of the game and save them for future access. Tom wrote the software code (program) for the game and designed all the characters that participate in the game. Tom would like you to help him with protecting his computer game. What type of protection does he need to successfully protect his intellectual rights?    

Answer 1

Answer a)

Firstly we will understand here what is invasion are what can be invasion for a chemist

Invasion

Invasion means unfairly intruding into others private information.

In case of Sassy below could be the invasions made bu unknown parties and people

• Copy the formula she made to remove stains from fabric
• Leak the details to other companies
• Duplicate the substance she made

To protect herself from this invasions she could patent the formula and trademark it, Save the data and keep it confidential till it is out in market and lastly once the product is created she can brand with her name or else her company name.

Answer b)

Property protection is is protection for inventions, literary and artistic works, symbols, names, and images created by the mind.

The four important property protection available are as below:

• Patents
• Trademark
• Copyrights
• Trade secret

In the above case of Karen she have the device patented and trademarked so that no one else can copy and trade the device. This will surely help her to market her device from the invasions.

Answer c)

In case of Mary she can determine if her idea can be copyrighted, trademarked, or patented. Also she can go with new branding concept which she can document and trademarked so no one can steal it. Apart from this protection of marketing ideas and processes are very difficult.

Answer d)

Again to protect the intellectual rights Tom can use below

• Patents
• Trademark
• Copyrights
• Trade secret

However for computer games ans software designed Tom can Use Patents however with that I believe that Copyright would be more beneficial is this scenario as once you copyright your idea with the legal authorities no one can copy it and you get a legal protection for your idea as well.