A design dictated by function may be protected by a <u>utility patent.</u> Utility patents are those new and improved products, processes, or machines that someone created and has the rights to. Given that this is a "patent for invention," nobody else but the owner can make, use, or sell that particular product without the creator's consent.
One way that the British government carried out the policy of mercantilism was by (4) requiring that most colonial trade occur within the British empire. This was the basic policy of colonial mercantilism, where colonies such as the United States could only trade with Great Britain, and was banned from trading with other colonial superpowers, such as the Netherlands, France and Spain.
It impacted society and transformed the working of government and industry
The answer is B
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