Accessible Journeys, Inc.
Team Assignment
Assessed Question 1: What actions should a manager in the selected industry take to identify and protect the tangible property rights of the organization? Add supplementary information to your teammates’ posts as needed. Comment on the postings of your classmates by comparing your selected industry with theirs.
Accessible Journeys, Inc. provides travel services to people whose mobility is limited to wheel chairs. These services are offered via a network of services contracted with various types of service providers. The primary tangible properties AJ employs to deliver its services, i.e., wheelchairs, assessable van rentals, and other equipment comes from service providers they contract with. However, AJ’s management team can interact with the contracted service providers on issues of client safety, security and equipment maintenance in identifying and addressing issues that would compromise or impact the service to its clients.
Assessed Question 2: What actions should a manager in the selected industry take to identify and protect the intellectual property rights of the organization? Add supplementary information to your teammates’ posts as needed. Comment on the postings of your classmates by comparing your selected industry with theirs.
Because AJ handles the complete travel arrangements of its clients, i.e., hotel reservations, accessible van rentals, personal care attendants, prepurchased rail and air tickets, etc. it’s important that it monitors the transactional activity of its travel agents and service providers. A random but periodic review of the service providers’ deliverables should be instituted by management to assure they are in full compliance with AJ’s contract provisions. Also, management can protect the intellectual; property rights of the organization by registering its business trademark with federal agency USPTO (United States Patent Trademark Office) and creating an internal unit...