Patents and trade secrets forum question

For this assignment you will post your answers to the questions in each thread prior to 11:59 p.m. ET on Wednesday at 11:59 pm. Additionally, you must respond to at least two of your classmates posts by 11:59 pm ET on Sunday. Your follow-up posts can add additional insight to a classmate’s opinions or can challenge their opinions. Use examples from the readings, or from your own research, to support your views, as appropriate. For your follow-up posts this week, you may wish to visit a couple of the web sites contributed by your classmates and share your opinion of these sites with the class. Be sure to read the follow-up posts to your own posts and reply to any questions or requests for clarification. You are encouraged to conduct research and use other sources to support your answers. Be sure to list your references at the end of your post. References must be in APA citation format. All posts must be a minimum of 250-300 words.

Read the case study on pp. 198-199 of the textbook and answer the following questions:

1. If you are reading a web page about a particular topic and see related advertisements appear along the side of the page, do you feel the advertising constitutes an invasion of your privacy? What if the advertisements were generated not only on the basis of content on the page you are currently viewing, but on the basis of the most recent 5 or 10 web pages that you viewed?

Read the case study on pp. 221-222 of the textbook and answer the following questions:

2. According to the court, did Byce acquire the source code through improper means? Why or why not?

3. What do you think of Byce’s negotiation tactics? If you were in Byce’s position, what other options might you have considered?