Answer :
Answer:
directly related to its competitive advantage
Explanation:
Intellectual property is protected under four key forms:
- patents
- copyrights
- trademarks
- trade secrets
Patents are only handed out if they are useful, new compared to prior arts, and they are not obvious to any person.
Trademarks are useful to identify the source of origin of products and to distinguish those products from others.
Copyright grants the owner of a work the right to determine how it will be used and to obtain economic benefits from it. Ideas cannot be protected under copyright law.
Trade secrets are obviously information not known by the general public and that information has economic value for a business.