Exam 6: Intellectual Property

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

The courts have ruled in favor of using reverse engineering to:

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

Which of the following enables a DVD player or a computer drive to decrypt, unscramble, and play back motion pictures on DVDs, but not copy them?

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

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?

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

A copyright is the exclusive right to distribute, display, perform, or reproduce an original work in copies or to prepare derivative works based on the work.

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

What conditions must be met for a defendant to successfully use the nominative fair use defense?

Discuss the uses of cross-licensing agreements by large software manufacturers and how their use can place smaller companies at a disadvantage.

Patent law protects which of the following?

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.

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