Intellectual Property Rights

Intellectual Property Rights
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How can you protect your IT product or service idea?
There are several ways of protecting IT products and ideas. One of them is through the use of copyrights and trademarks (May, 2015). The other methods of protecting information technology ideas and products are avoiding to reveal too much information to the people who can duplicate. Also, they can use protection interventions such as intellectual property that are obtained to intellectual property rights.
What are the consequences if you do not take the legal procedure required to protect your IT product or service idea?
If ideas are not protected, then they can be used by other companies without any property right. The protection, patent application of ideas are free, and people can easily duplicate them without any agreement. They will also not quote and accuse other people of using their properties.
Difference between IT products and other products regarding legal protection issues
IT products are different from other products regarding legal protection. It is because its products can easily be duplicated by other people so that they claim that they own them.
Can such tools be used to detect borrowed ideas?
Various rules can be used to detect borrowed ideas from other authors. Turnitin is one of them that shows ideas that have not been cited by the user (Dutfield, 2017). Plagiarism refers to ideas whose authors claim to be theirs even if they have taken them from others.

It is a general rule that you should cite your reference sources when you are borrowing ideas from other authors. Why is this important and what are the consequences if you do not cite your reference sources? 
It is important to cite references when borrowing ideas from other authors since it allow us to give them credit or appreciate for the work they have done regarding the topic of research. The consequences of not citing the references is that the work will be considered to be plagiarized.
Can you use the research paper written by you for a previous class as a reference for your current research? Why or why not? Is this considered self-plagiarism? What is meant by self-plagiarism? Previous research paper could be used as a reference to current research if the idea that is being discussed has relationship with the previous work. However, if the idea is used without citing, then it is considered to be self-plagiarism. Self-plagiarism takes place when the author borrows ideas from his or her previous paper but they do not cite that it was used in the previous research.
As a desktop help desk support specialist, you discovered a new way to prevent hackers from breaking into company networks while working for a telecommunication company. Is it ethical for you to sell your discovery to an IT security company without permission from your employer? Why or why not? How can employers protect their legal rights?
As an employee in a firm, it is not ethical to sell id security products without the permission of the employer. This is because most of these products have legal protection rights. Before selling them, permission must be given from their owners who have property protection rights on them.

References
Dutfield, G. (2017). Intellectual property rights and the life science industries: a twentieth-century history. Routledge.
May, C. (2015). The global political economy of intellectual property rights: The new enclosures. Routledge.