Befort Company filed for a patent on a new type of machine. The application costs totaled $15,000. R&D costs incurred to create the machine were $75,000. In the year in which the company filed for and received the patent, it spent $25,000 in the successful defense of a patent infringement suit. Required 1. At what amount should the company capitalize the patent? 2. What are the factors used to determine the economic life of a patent?

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Befort Company filed for a patent on a new type of machine. The application costs totaled $15,000. R&D costs incurred to create the machine were $75,000. In the year in which the company filed for and received the patent, it spent $25,000 in the successful defense of a patent infringement suit.

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1. At what amount should the company capitalize the patent?

2. What are the factors used to determine the economic life of a patent?

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