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1. What are the differences between patents, copyrights, and trademarks?
2. Consider a firm that is considering marketing its innovation in multiple countries. What factors should this firm consider in formulating its protection strategy?
3. When will trade secrets be more useful than patents, copyrights or trademarks?
4. Can you identify a situation in which none of the legal protection mechanisms discussed (patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets) will prove useful?
5. Describe a technological innovation not discussed in the chapter, and identify where you think it lies on the control continuum between wholly proprietary and wholly open. 6. What factors do you believe influenced the choice of protection strategy used for the innovation identified above? Do you think the strategy was a good choice?