A disgruntled employee of the Coca Cola Company steals the secret formula for Coke and publishes it on the internet. Now, the Hound’s Tooth Beverage Company is advertising that it is making a cola drink "just EXACTLY like ‘you know who.’" Coke sues The Hound for misappropriation of trade secret. Who wins? Select one: a. The Hound wins. It never claimed that it was Coke it was imitating, even though it did use the secret formula. b. The Hound wins. It got the information from the internet, and the secret is now public domain. c. Coke wins. It was the original creator of the formula and it is patented. d. Coke wins. The original act of theft by its employee passes liability to anyone who uses the information.

Sean lives in dallas and runs a business that sells boats. in an average year, he receives $722,000 from selling boats. of this sales revenue, he must pay the manufacturer a wholesale cost of $422,000; he also pays wages and utility bills totaling $268,000. he owns his showroom; if he chooses to rent it out, he will receive $2,000 in rent per year. assume that the value of this showroom does not depreciate over the year. also, if sean does not operate this boat business, he can work as a paralegal, receive an annual salary of $21,000 with no additional monetary costs, and rent out his showroom at the $2,000 per year rate. no other costs are incurred in running this boat business.identify each of sean's costs in the following table as either an implicit cost or an explicit cost of selling boats.implicit costexplicit costthe wages and utility bills that sean pays the rental income sean could receive if he chose to rent out his showroom the salary sean could earn if he worked as a paralegal the wholesale cost for the boats that sean pays the