Intellectual Property

Question 1

Created the position of Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator in the Executive Office of the President. It also increased copyright and trademark enforcement and increased the penalties for infringement.

Answer 1

PRO-IP of 2008

Question 2

This act implements the WIPO copyright treaty and WIPO Performance and Phonographs Treaty.This act also contains five titles
Title I: Prohibits circumvention of technology measures used by copyright owners to protect their works and tampering with copyright management information.
Title II: Protects website owners from liability when their users infringe on copyright law.
Title III: Allows owners and lessees of computers to make copies of computer programs when doing maintenance or repairing a computer.
Title IV: Confirms the power of the Copyright Office to perform its duties.
Title V: Protects the design of vessel hulls.

Answer 2

Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA)

Question 3

This act changed U.S. patent system from ‘first-to-invent’ to a ‘first-inventor-to-file” system.

Answer 3

Leahy-Smith America Invents Act

Question 4

This act expanded the definition of prior art to include works outside of the U.S.

Answer 4

The American Invents Act

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Trade secrets

Question 6

This act brought uniformity to all the United States in the area of trade secret law.

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Uniform Trade Secrets Act

Question 7

This Act helped law enforcement agencies pursue economic espionage by imposing penalties of up to $10 million and 15 years in prison for the theft of trade secrets.

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Economic Espionage Act (EEA) of 1996

Question 8

This act allows for the seizure of property under certain conditions to prevent the dissemination of the misappropriated trade secret. This act also amended the Economic Espionage Act to create a federal civil remedy for trade secret misappropriation.

Answer 8

Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (DTSA)

Question 9

The act of stealing someone/s ideas or words and passing them off as one’s own.

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Plagiarism

Question 10

the process of taking something apart in order to understand it, build a copy of it, or improve it.

Answer 10

Reverse Engineering

Question 11

Any program whose source code is made available for use or modification, as users or other developers see fit is known as ______

Answer 11

Open Source Code

Question 12

Legally obtained information that is gathered to help a company gain an advantage over its rivals

Answer 12

Competitive Intelligence

Question 13

The use of illegal means to obtain business information not available to the public.

Answer 13

Industrial espionage

Question 14

a logo, package design, phrase, sound, or word that enables a consumer to differentiate one company’s products from another’s is known as a ____

Answer 14

Trademark

Question 15

prevents unauthorized use of trademarks.

Answer 15

The Lanham Act of 1948 (The Trademark Act)

Question 16

a person or company that registers domain names for famous trademarks or company names which they have no connection with the hope the trademark’s owner will buy the domain for a large sum of money.

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Cyberswuatting

Question 17

nonprofit corporation responsible for managing the Internet’s domain system.

Answer 17

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

Question 18

This act allows organizations to challenge foreign cybersquatters in U.S. Courts.

Answer 18

The Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA)