Q. What do you mean by Legal Monopoly?

Legal Monopoly: Some monopolies are engendered and protected under various laws. Inventors of new processes, devices or articles attain monopoly powers for such inventions under trade mark, patent and copyright laws. There are numerous illustrations oflegal monopoly of medicines. As Professor F.W. Taussing observes in his Principles of Economics, patents and copyrights are the simplest cases of absolute monopoly by law. Though as Professor E.H. Chamberlin points out, these cases would fall more under monopolistic competition than under monopoly.