Ashley hired Jordan, a co-op culinary student from her alma mater, George Brown

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Ashley hired Jordan, a co-op culinary student from her alma mater, George Brown College to work as a sous chef in her restaurant for the summer. Although Jordan’s passion was food, he also had superior computer skills and, after examining the restaurant’s website volunteered to make some improvements. He made two visual and style changes – 1) he standardized the website colours to match the décor of the restaurant and 2)he stylized the initials in the name into a visual symbol and repeated the use of this symbol. Ashley liked this symbol so much that she changed the front of the menu to include it, she had it etched in the glass on the restaurant windows, and she planned to put it on the sign outside when the current one was replaced. On the technical side, Jordan designed an online reservation system where customers could not only view and book available time slots but also designate the table they wanted from a colour coded map of the restaurant. The map shaded tables based on three levels of noise (secluded, active, high activity). Again, Ashley was thrilled; no other restaurant that she knew of had such a user friendly process.

Jordan was a wonderful employee but Ashley did not hire him upon graduation. Jordan was disappointed but he easily obtained a job at Kate’s Kitchen, another restaurant in Toronto. Soon after starting at Kate’s, Jordan redesigned that restaurant’s website using the same colour scheme as Ashley’s, the same stylized font for the symbol (although the letters were different) and –most upsetting to Ashley- the same reservation booking process complete with a colour coded table map.

What option would you recommend that Ashley take based on your knowledge of intellectual property?

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Explanation / Answer

From the given scenario it can be analyzed that the part-time employee of the restaurant imitated the same style and systems for another restaurant. Here as soon as Mrs. A realized that the new designs and the pattern of business operations to be unique and creative she should have gone for a patent. This could have protected her business from copying and the employee would also have not done the same for the other restaurant.

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