A study by Daniel Okimoto at Stanford University identified five other factors: 1  The political party in power did not take the difficult steps needed to spur the economy. 2  Taxes were raised in 1997. 3  Banks kept bad loans on their books, which tied up capital needed to invest in growth.
Intellectual property is the area of law that deals with protecting the rights of those who create original works. It covers everything from original plays and novels to inventions and company identification marks.atents protect an invention from being made, sold or used by others for a certain period of time. There are three different types of patents in the United States: 1  Utility Patents-these patents protect inventions that have a specific function, including things like chemicals, machines, and technology.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Married Women's Property Act 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c.93) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that allowed women to be the legal owners of the money they earned and to inherit property.efore the Act was passed women lost all ownership over their property when they became married: âFrom the early thirteenth century until 1870, English Common law held that most of the property that a wife had owned as a feme sole came under the control of the husband at the time of the marriageâ.