Apple and Google Apply for Hundreds of Patents Every Year

question 101

Multiple Choice

Apple and Google apply for hundreds of patents every year.These patents

• A) allow Apple and Google to produce goods with no risk of monetary loss.
• B) provide incentives for Apple and Google to spend large amounts of money up front on research and development of new products.
• C) create more competition among Apple,Google,and other tech firms than would occur without government intervention.
• D) make it easy for Apple and Google products to be similar.
• E) make it easy for other firms to compete with Apple and Google.

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