Web Links

Marginal URLs:

• p. 643: 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.loc.gov/copyright to learn all about copyrights from the U.S. Copyright Office.

• For a discussion of how economics can be applied to religious institutions, go to http://www.religionlink.org/tip_050131b.php.
• To download a study indicating lower levels of social spending by U.S. churches that are more nearly monopolies in their local areas, go to http://ideas.repec.org/p/tuf/tuftec/0603.html.

Patents, Trademarks, and Intellectual Property

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

Title: Intellectual Property

Navigation: Follow the link at http://www.gsk.com/, the GlaxoSmithKline Web site. Select Investors, then Reports. View the PDF of Annual Report 2007. Scroll down to Intellectual Property (page 28).

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

1. How do patents, trademarks, and registered designs and copyrights differ?

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