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True / False
1. The Fair Use Doctrine is a defense often employed by the defendant in trademark infringement cases.
a.
True
b.
False
2. Formulas, inventions, and processes are not considered forms of intellectual property.
a.
True
b.
False
3. Industrial espionage and competitive intelligence are essentially the same.
a.
True
b.
False
4. Copyright infringement is the act of stealing someone’s ideas or words and passing them off as one’s own.
a.
True
b.
False
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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.
a.
True
b.
False
6. Software, video games, multimedia works, and Web pages can all be copyrighted.
a.
True
b.
False
7. Defining and controlling the appropriate level of access to intellectual property are complex tasks.
a.
True
b.
False
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8. The fair use doctrine denies portions of patented materials to be used without permission under any
circumstance.
a.
True
b.
False
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.
a.
True
b.
False
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.
a.
True
b.
False
11. Copyright law protects authored works such as art, books, and film.
a.
True
b.
False
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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.
a.
True
b.
False
13. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was signed into law in 1998 and implements two 1996
WIPO treaties.
a.
True
b.
False
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.
a.
True
b.
False
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15. Cross-licensing agreements between organizations allow each party to sue the other over patent
infringements.
a.
True
b.
False
16. The main body of law that governs patents is contained in Title 35 of the U.S. Code.
a.
True
b.
False
17. The term of copyright has been extended several times from its original limit of 25 years to 35 years.
a.
True
b.
False
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.
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a.
True
b.
False
19. The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Copyright Treaty of 1996 eliminated many of the
original copyright protections for electronic media.
a.
True
b.
False
20. 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.
a.
True
b.
False
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.
a.
True
b.
False
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22. Reverse engineering can only be applied to computer hardware, not computer software.
a.
True
b.
False
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.
a.
True
b.
False
24. Open source code is any program whose source code is made available for use or modification, as users or
other developers see fit.
a.
True
b.
False
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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.
a.
True
b.
False
Multiple Choice
26. In what year was The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) signed into law?
a.
1992
b.
1998
c.
1990
d.
1996
27. Patent law protects which of the following?
a.
art and film
b.
information critical to an organization’s success
c.
books
d.
inventions
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28. Which of the following imposes penalties of up to $10 million and 15 years in prison for the theft of trade
secrets?
a.
Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property (PRO-IP) Act
b.
Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
c.
The Economic Espionage Act (EEA) of 1996
d.
The Lanham Act
29. The process of taking something apart in order to understand it, build a copy of it, or improve it is known as
which of the following?
a.
Plagiarism
b.
Patent infringement
c.
Reverse engineering
d.
Decompiling
30. Which of the following terms is defined as the existing body of knowledge available to a person of ordinary
skill in the art?
a.
Prior experience
b.
Known facts
c.
Body of practice
d.
Prior art
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31. How many classes of items did the U.S. Supreme Court rule could not be patented?
a.
two
b.
three
c.
four
d.
five
32. Copyright and patent protection was established through which of the following?
a.
the Bill of Rights
b.
the U.S. Federal Codes and Statutes
c.
the U.S. Constitution
d.
various state laws
33. A patent is a grant of a property right issued by which entity?
a.
USPS
b.
USPTO
c.
FTC
d.
SEC
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34. Which act was drafted in the 1970s to bring uniformity to all the United States in the area of trade secret
law?
a.
The Economic Espionage Act (EEA)
b.
Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA)
c.
Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property (PRO-IP) Act
d.
Uniform Trade Secrets Act (UTSA)
35. 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?
a.
Time Warner Cable system
b.
RIAA
c.
DeCSS
d.
Content Scramble System (CSS)
36. Which of the following increased trademark and copyright enforcement and substantially increased
penalties for infringement?
a.
Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
b.
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
c.
Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
d.
Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property (PRO-IP) Act