intellectual property

Question 1

is a term used to describe works of the mind, such as art, books, films, formulas, inventions, music, and processes, that are distinct and”owned” or created by a single person or group.

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intellectual property

Question 2

A ??? is a grant of a property right to inventors.

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patent

Question 3

??? is the existing body of knowledge that is available to a person of ordinary skill in the art.

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Prior art

Question 4

A ??? is a definition or format that has been approved by a recognized standards organization or is accepted as a de facto standard by the industry.

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standard

Question 5

exist for programming languages, operating systems, data formats, communications protocols, and electrical interfaces.

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Standards

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was defined as business information that represents something of economic value, has secret required effort or cost to develop, has some degree of uniqueness or novelty, is generally unknown to the public, and is kept confidential

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trade secret

Question 7

is an “information, including a formula, pattern, compilation, program, device, method technique, or process.

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trade secret

Question 8

Employees can also use ??? to protect intellectual property from being used by competitors when key employees leave. Such agreements require employees not to work for any competitors for a period of time, perhaps one to two years.

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noncompete agreements

Question 9

is the theft and passing off of someone’s ideas or words as one’s own. The explosion of electronic content and the growth of the Internet have made it easy to cut and paste paragraphs into term papers and documents without proper citation or quotation marks.

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Plagiarism

Question 10

is the process of taking something apart in order understand it, build copy of it, or improve it. It was originally applied to computer hardware, but is now commonly applied to software as well.

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Reverse engineering

Question 11

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

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Open source code

Question 12

the gathering of legally obtainable information to help a company gain an advantage over its rivals.

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competitive intelligence

Question 13

is a serious crime that carries heavy penalties.

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Industrial espionage

Question 14

registered domain names for famous trademarks company names to which they had no connection, with the hope that the trademark’s owner would buy the domain name for a large sum of money.

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Cybersquatters

Question 15

Greatest threat in company’s trade secrets is the ???, as they night either accidentally disclose these trade secret or steal them.

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employee

Question 16

requires continual gathering, analysis, and evaluation of data with controlled dissemination of the useful information to decision makers

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effective competitive intelligence operation