Chapter 6

Question 1

Firefox and OpenOffice are all examples of which of the following?

Answer 1

open source software

Question 2

Open source code is any program whose source code is made available for use or modification, as users or other developers see fit.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Cybersquatters:

Answer 3

register domain names for famous trademarks or company names to which they have no connection

Question 4

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was signed into law in 1998 and implements two 1996 WIPO treaties.

Answer 4

True

Question 5

Formulas, inventions, and processes are not considered forms of intellectual property.

Answer 5

False

Question 6

Copyright law protects authored works such as art, books, and film.

Answer 6

True

Question 7

Which of the following claims as its invention some feature or process embodied in instructions executed by a computer?

Answer 7

software patent

Question 8

Which of the following is a logo, package design, phrase, sound, or word that enables a consumer to differentiate one company’s products from another’s?

Answer 8

trademark

Question 9

The redistribution of a program code with no copyright as a proprietary software can be avoided by using which of the following?

Answer 9

open source license

Question 10

Using reverse engineering, a developer can use the code of the current database programming language to recover the design of the information system application.

Answer 10

True

Question 11

The term of copyright has been extended several times from its original limit of 25 years to 35 years.

Answer 11

False

Question 12

The main body of law that governs patents is contained in Title 35 of the U.S. Code.

Answer 12

True

Question 13

Which of the following terms is used to describe the act of stealing someone’s ideas or words and passing them off as one’s own?

Answer 13

Plagiarism

Question 14

The Fair Use Doctrine is a defense often employed by the defendant in trademark infringement cases.

Answer 14

False

Question 15

A trademark permits its owner to exclude the public from making, using, or selling a protected invention, and allows for legal action against violators.

Answer 15

False

Question 16

Reverse engineering can only be applied to computer hardware, not computer software.

Answer 16

False

Question 17

In what year was The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) signed into law?

Answer 17

1998

Question 18

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Copyright Treaty of 1996 eliminated many of the original copyright protections for electronic media.

Answer 18

False

Question 19

Which of the following imposes penalties of up to $10 million and 15 years in prison for the theft of trade secrets?

Answer 19

The Economic Espionage Act (EEA) of 1996

Question 20

The World Trade Organization (WTO) developed the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights to establish the minimum levels of protection that each government must provide to the intellectual property of all WTO members.

Answer 20

True