Exam 6: Intellectual Property

One frequent use of for software is to modify an application that ran on one vendor's database so that it can run on another's.

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

The created the World Trade Organization.

Under the , the U.S. patent system changed from a "first­to­invent" to a "first­inventor­to­file" system.

In the early days of the Web, many cybersquatters registered domain names for famous trademarks or company names to which they had no connection.

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

Under the Act, trademark holders can seek civil damages of up to $100,000 from cybersquatters that register their trade names or similar-sounding names as domain names.

What is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)?

allows portions of copyrighted materials to be used without permission under certain circumstances.

A(n) can read the machine language of a software program and produce the source code.