Exam 6: Intellectual Property

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

Which act was drafted in the 1970s to bring uniformity to all the United States in the area of trade secret law?

Which of the following can read the machine language of a software program and produce the source code?

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.

Which of the following established the minimum levels of protection that each country must provide to all WTO members?

Identify what types of work are eligible to be copyrighted.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

One key advantage that trade secret law has over the use of patents and copyrights in protecting companies from losing control of their intellectual property is:

One of the tests that an invention must pass to be eligible for a patent is which of the following?

Industrial espionage and competitive intelligence are essentially the same.

State the background and purpose of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights.

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

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

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

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