I thought the purpose of an interview was to find out what you knew as an individual, and your ability to do research, if research was required, and not what others knew. I can't decide whether by doing your work for you one would be helping you or ruining you.

In the United States there are three major kinds of intellectual property rights, all based on clauses in the U.S. Constitution. Copyright protects against somebody making an exact copy of your book, picture, or piece of music and selling it, so that they get the money for that sale instead of you. It gives an author, artist, or composer the right to control the use that's made of their work. Patents give inventors of machines or industrial processes the right to a monopoly, for 20 years, on the use of their invention, in exchange for their full public disclosure of all of the details about how their invention works. Trademarks give companies the right to be known by a certain name. Thus, a company named L. L. Bean sells high-quality outdoor clothing. Their trademark protects them against someone else starting their own store and calling it L. L. Bean, or even L. L. Beam. The law says that if a consumer could confuse one name with the other, the trademark is infringing.

Well the intellectual property rights are so important to ensure us some security and free competition on our business. Although of this part of law be "young" here in Brazil (1996 that law was created) we have a rigid system to register your patents (at least studying this law we see it). An important thing that I would like to cite is when an enterprise has a invention that can help the whole society but is protected by the law and the population really needs of this invention, the government can break the intellectual property rights for the commom good, for example, an enterprise has a medicine that can cure a disease and only her knows this medicine, then for the commom good the government suspends the intellectual property rights and allows other enterprises to produce this medicine too... if you need more information just tell me xD