Respond to discussion topic in a minimum of 175 words that meets the following assignment requirements:

• Identify the intellectual property (IP) of a familiar company or a company located through an internet search.
• Explain why protecting the selected company's IP is important to the company.
• Include your supporting research, in-text citations and reference page, formatted per APA (7th ed.). For an examples of how to include your research, see my weekly overviews.