ESSAY QUESTION FACT SCENARIO: YOUR ESSAY IS BASED ON THESE FACTS:
George and Sophia are entrepreneurs who together own a limited liability company. SOPhiGEo, LLC. They are inventors and have invented a widget that can be plugged into a mobile phone or personal computer to detect unsolicited third-party access of camera and/or audio recording features on the equipment and block the intruder with a repeating loop of nonsense gibberish that can be stopped on the intruder’s device only by the widget’s primary user. This widget has a proprietary design and operating code. SOPhiGEo is calling it “LoktYU.’ Currently the only intellectual property (IP) protection SOPhiGEo has employed is trade secret.
QUESTION
List 3 additional intellectual property protections SOPhiGEo, LLC can obtain as the corporate IP owner for this widget in the United States, and for each provide:
Name and brief general definition of the type of IP;
2. How long the IP will last to cover the widget;
3. What aspect of the widget it will cover;
