quiz 6

Question 1

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

Answer 1

False

Question 2

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

Answer 2

false

Question 3

Industrial espionage and competitive intelligence are essentially the same.

Answer 3

false

Question 4

Copyright infringement is the act of stealing someone’s ideas or words and passing them off as one’s own.

Answer 4

False

Question 5

The Lanham Act (also known as the Trademark Act) defines the use of a trademark, the process for obtaining a trademark, and the penalties associated with trademark infringement.

Answer 5

true

Question 6

Software, video games, multimedia works, and Web pages can all be copyrighted.

Answer 6

T

Question 7

Defining and controlling the appropriate level of access to intellectual property are complex tasks.

Answer 7

T

Question 8

The fair use doctrine denies portions of patented materials to be used without permission under any circumstance.

Answer 8

F

Question 9

Two software manufacturers could conceivably develop separate programs that perform the same functions in a nearly identical manner without infringing each other’s copyrights.

Answer 9

T

Question 10

The Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property (PRO-IP) Act of 2008 increased trademark and copyright enforcement and substantially increased penalties for infringement.

Answer 10

T

Question 11

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

Answer 11

T

Question 12

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 12

T

Question 13

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

Answer 13

T

Question 14

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 14

F

Question 15

Cross-licensing agreements between organizations allow each party to sue the other over patent infringements.

Answer 15

F

Question 16

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

Answer 16

T

Question 17

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

Answer 17

F

Question 18

A trademark is 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 18

F

Question 19

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

Answer 19

F

Question 20

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

Answer 20

T

Question 21

Because organizations can risk losing trade secrets when key employees leave, they often try to prohibit employees from revealing secrets by adding non-compete clauses to employment contracts.

Answer 21

F

Question 22

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

Answer 22

F

Question 23

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 23

T

Question 24

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 24

T

Question 25

A common use of open source software is to move data from one application to another and to extract, transform, and load business data into large databases.

Answer 25

T

Question 26

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

Answer 26

1998

Question 27

How many classes of items did the U.S. Supreme Court rule could not be patented?

Answer 27

Three

Question 28

Which of the following increased trademark and copyright enforcement and substantially increased penalties for infringement?

Answer 28

Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property (PRO-IP) Act

Question 29

Which of the following allows portions of copyrighted materials to be used without permission under certain circumstances?

Answer 29

Fair use doctrine

Question 30

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

Answer 30

software patent

Question 31

Cybersquatters:

Answer 31

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