Web Links

Marginal URLs:

• p. 637: Go to http://www.uspto.gov/ to learn more about patents and trademarks from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and to http://www.copyright.gov/ to learn all about copyrights from the U.S. Copyright Office.
• p. 638: Go to http://www.wtrg.com/opecshare.html to find out from WRTG Economics how effective the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries has been in acting as an oil market cartel.

• To learn about how a private company came to own the Ambassador Bridge, go to http://info.detnews.com/history/story/index.cfm?id=13&category=business.
• To consider the status of the Ambassador Bridge today, its home page is available at http://www.ambassadorbridge.com/.

Patents, Trademarks, and Intellectual Property

This Internet application allows you to explore a firm's view on legal protections.

Title: Intellectual Property

Navigation: Go to http://www.gsk.com/, the GlaxoSmithKline Web site. Select Investors, then Reports. View the PDF of Annual Report 2005. Scroll down to Intellectual Property (page 25).

Application: Read the statement and table; then answer the following questions:

1. What are the differences between patents, trademarks, and registered designs and copyrights?

2. What are GlaxoSmithKline's intellectual property goals? Do patents or trademarks seem to be more important?