Question

13. List and define the three different regimes that protect intellectual property rights.

14. List and describe the principal causes of system quality problems.

15. Name and describe four quality-of-life impacts of computers and information systems.

Answer 1

The answers for the three questions are as following,

13) To protect the intellectual property, there are different regimes are made possible. It's not actually restricted into three. Let's discuss with the three major types of intellectual property protections that widely used across the world. They are,

• Patent
• Trademark
• Copyright

A Patent is used to prevent an invention, product or something else created, used or sold by another party without authorization. Patents are the common protective measure comes to people mind, when they think about IP. The patent owner have the whole control over the invention to marketize, sell and licensing it to a third-party. The major types of patent classifications are,

• Utitlity Patent (Protects the creation of a new or improved product)
• Design Patent (Protects the attractive design on a useful item)
• Plant Patent (Protects new kinds of plants produced)

A Trademark is unique sign (like logo) that indicates a particular goods or services, that are company sold. This is another common protective measure for intellectual properties that most of the companies hold (McDonalds, KFC, Tesla, etc each comapany has its own trademark).

Copyright covers the tangible forms of creation and the original work. It does not protect the idea, rather protects the product of an idea. Copyrights are mostly applied to musics,architectural drawings, etc. The copyright owner can sell, publish and/or re-produce any kinds of literal work that mentioned in the copyright.

14) There are three main principle causes for the system-quality problems and they are,

• Hardware and facility failures
• Software bugs and errors
• Poor data quality

The Harware failures are happens to the main system components such as CPUs, memory units, etc. And Facility failures are happened to certain services that a software provides. Both of these happens in certain times without an acknowledgment.

Software bugs and errors are happens in the software due to its pure quality of code. These less quality codes create the program erroneous and provides unexpected results.

The realiability and efficiency of data that involved in the program is questioned since it can be effected by the external factors. Hence, Data Quality has became a principle cause of system-quality problems.

15) The four quality-of-life impacts of computers and information systems are,

• The persons have vast knowledge in computer sciences misuses it for hacking, data scrapping, cyber fraud and other illegal activities.
• Health problems are arised due to the extensive use of computer systems.
• Unemployment rates are inclining while most of the man handled jobs are replaced by computers, which work in far better accuracy.
• Having a computer and the knowledge to use, makes socio-economic differences among the society.