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Business ***** - BUG, Inc.

Case: BUG, Inc., a company based in Any State, U.S.A., designs, manufactures, and sells electronic record*****g devices. These ***** are used by law enforcement agencies (police, FBI, etc.) to intercept and record sounds and voices. The equipment taps into telephone wires, cell phone transmissions, and picks up sounds ***** voices through the walls of a house or in open-air locations ***** the use of a remote microphone. Part of the ***** is driven by software written by BUG employees. BUG has exclusive contracts with most state and federal law enf*****cement ***** throughout the United States. BUG is thinking about exp*****ing its sales to international markets. Currently, half of ***** manufacturing plants are in foreign countries and ***** are ***** the U.S. The *****'s logo is a ladybug wearing a set of headphones.

*****. Define the different type(s) of legal protections BUG should have for its intellectual property. Explain why *****se protections are necessary:

For ***** protection, ***** will need several types of legal protection: They will need:

Copyrights

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Trademarks

BUG *****s Copyrights for their software which is driving ***** hardware. Usually Copyrights are owned ***** an individual who creates a work of expression. The exception to this in Copyright ***** is: if a work was created by ***** employee ***** a company, in this case BUG, the employer owns the copyright; if an independent contrac*****r signs a written agreements stating that any ***** performed is for ***** and *****refore they would own the copyright; if Bug purchases another organization or if they sell their ***** operation, copyrights would go to the buyer ***** theref*****e ***** become the copyright owner. A Copyright gives an owner the rights *****: reproduction, distribution, performance or display and to create adaptations or derivatives. ***** would therefore give Bug the ability ***** realize commercial gain from underlying work and providing an opportunity for Bug to sell or license *****se rights.

The *****'s logo which is a ladybug wearing a set of headphones should be *****n a tr*****demark. A trademark identifies distinctive word(s), phrase(s), logo(s), domain name(s), graphic symbol(s), slogan or other means ***** to uniquely identify a source of a product. In ***** c*****se, the ladybug clearly distinguishes the company and the product line

For ***** ***** they manufacture or invent, Bug should acquire patents ***** ***** allow them ***** keep inventions and related ideas protected ***** competing companies. It would also be necessary f***** Bug to make sure that international patent and ***** laws are reviewed especially in the ***** where ***** has *****ir stuff manufactured. Any time a comp*****ny produces products outside of America both international and federal laws must be thoroughly understood. Generally, *****, copyright and trademark laws do not overlap in the United ********** however that may or not be true outside of America. Each area would have to ***** addressed separately.

2. Earlier this year, WIRETAP, *****., a relatively new company trying to compete with BUG, sent one of ***** *****, Steve, *****