New Co Received a Patent on a New Type of Machine

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Short Answer

New Co. received a patent on a new type of machine. The legal costs and the patent application costs totaled
$180,000. R&D costs incurred to create the machine were $120,000. In the year in which the company received the patent, $25,000 was spent in the successful defense of a patent infringement suit.
Required:
What amount of patent costs, if any, should be capitalized as an intangible asset?

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Definitions:

Employee Retention

Strategies or practices employed by organizations to prevent valuable employees from leaving their jobs.

Sampling Error

The difference between the value of a sample statistic (such as the sample mean, sample standard deviation, or sample proportion) and the value of the corresponding population parameter (population mean, population standard deviation, or population proportion) that occurs because a random sample is used to estimate the population parameter.

Sample Size

The number of observations or data points collected in a sample, crucial for determining the representativeness and accuracy of the sample.

Margin of Error

Indicates the confidence in the precision of a survey or poll result, quantifying potential deviation from the true population value.