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; How long the IP will last to cover the widget; What aspect of the widget it will cover;

For the following question, write a short essay response. You must include APA7th ed. Formatted sources in support of your essay in text and the full references at the end of your answer.

ESSAY QUESTION FACT SCENARIO: YOUR EASSAY 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:

1. 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;