Chapter 1.3, Problem IV.1E

What is the difference between a simple and a complex argument? In your answer, make sure you clearly define each before providing a comparison.

At many universities, the title to any patentable inventions conceived or reduced to practice by faculty, staff, or students is assigned to the university regardless of the funding source. In this situation, if the innovator(s) intend to participate in commercialization of the technology via a start-up, they must license the rights to the invention from the university True False

Clear Field Cheese Company Case Andy Reisinger, CIO, and Sandy Knight, CSCO, of the Clearfield Cheese Company in central Pennsylvania had just returned from a meeting with Tom Powers, who was the CEO of the company. Andy and Sandy were both feeling the pressure of the competitive problems that Tom had presented in their weekly senior staff meeting. It was clear that Clearfield Cheese Company faced challenging market conditions. Background Clearfield Cheese Company was established in 1931 by two brothers, Ted and Terry Edwards, in Clearfield, which is located in an agricultural area in central Pennsylvania. At the time, the U.S. economy was in the throes of a severe economic depression. The local dairy farmers were experiencing financial duress because they could not sell their milk at a price which would cover their costs. Part of the problem was transporting the milk to Pittsburgh and other larger cities at a landed cost that was competitive with farmers in Ohio. The Edwards brothers…