On January 4, 2013, Franc Company purchased for $27,000 a patent that had been filed 8 years earlier. The patent covers a manufacturing process that the company plans to use for 15 years. On January 3, 2014, the company paid its lawyers $10,000 for successfully defending the patent in a lawsuit.
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Prepare all the journal entries associated with the patent in 2013 and 2014.