Intellectual Property and Contracts Discussion & Responses
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Assignment 1
What type of intellectual property was at issue in this case? Were these ideas entitled to protection under the law?
Explain the difference between an implied-in-law (quasi-contract) and an implied-in-fact contract. What type of contract was at issue in this case?
Explain what the parties could have done differently to protect their rights and avoid this dispute.
Explain how a properly written contract could have been utilized for the licensing and use of the intellectual property to prevent the issue and provide terms you would recommend be included in such a contract.
Identify and explain each of the elements that would have been necessary to form a valid contract.