Protecting intellectual property rights is important to a free enterprise system because:
A. it gives the government the ability to regulate businesses.
B. it allows entrepreneurs to profit from their ideas.
C. it ensures that businesses sell products at fair prices.
D. it makes more money available for starting new companies

Intellectual properties are valuable ideas, innovations, and creations to a business. They are intangible assets that give a business its competitive advantage. Protecting intellectual properties ensure an individual or entity reaps the full benefits of the inventions and creations.

Protecting intellectual properties safeguards a company's ideas from being exploited by its competitors for commercial gains. It gives a business the right to exclusively profits from its innovations. Protecting intellectual properties encourages research and development as entrepreneurs are guaranteed to benefit from their creations.