After Two Years of Research and an Investment of a Substantial

question 15

Essay

After two years of research and an investment of a substantial amount of money,Coast-to-Coast Company (CC)develops a new product that it hopes will produce substantial profits.CC learns that a competitor,National Sales,Inc.,has made and begun to sell a nearly identical prod?uct.CC learns from a reliable source that National paid a CC employee to obtain the plans for CC's product when it was in development.What legal re?course does CC have against National?

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Definitions:

Articular Cartilage

A kind of slick, pale material that envelops the extremities of bones at points where they converge to create joints.

Epiphyseal Plate

A growth plate located at the ends of long bones where new bone tissue is produced during childhood and adolescence.

Zone of Resting Cartilage

A region in the epiphyseal plate of growing bones where chondrocytes are not actively proliferating but can be recruited for growth.

Zone of Calcification

A region in growing bones where cartilage cells die and are replaced by bone cells, part of bone growth and development.