Exam 7: Intellectual Property and Cyber Piracy

The Lanham Act is intended to protect the owner's investment and goodwill in a mark and prevent consumers from being confused as to the origin of goods and services.

The Economic Espionage Act (EEA)imposes prison terms on individuals of up to five (5)years per criminal violation.

Which of the following is true about what can be copyrighted?

Patents for inventions are valid for ________ years while design patents are valid for ________ years.

Article II,Section 4 of the United States Constitution provides "The Congress shall have Power...To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts,by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."

All applications for patents must be filed in which Washington D.C.office?

The Economic Espionage Act (EEA)makes it a state crime to steal another's trade secrets.

After the patent period runs out,the invention or design enters the public domain.

The penalty for patent infringement can be treble damages.

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act prohibits access to copyrighted digital works by circumventing the encryption,even if the work is not misused.

A patent is a grant by the federal government upon the inventor of an invention for the exclusive right to use,sell,or license the invention for an unlimited amount of time.

A customer list is not considered a trade secret.

In 1998,the length of copyright protection for an individual holder was extended to the life of the author plus 70 years.

If a patent application is filed but a patent has not yet been issued,the applicant usually places the words "patent conditional" on the article.

A patent cannot be acquired for an invention that has been in public use for more than one year at the time of application.

In a patent infringement case,which of the following could not be obtained in a civil lawsuit?

Which of the following is a true statement regarding whether an abstraction or a scientific principle can be patented?

Generally,a successful plaintiff in a trade secret action can recover the profits made by the offender from the use of the trade secret,recover for damages,and obtain an injunction prohibiting the offender from divulging or using the trade secret.

Wildboards Company introduces a product called a "Rollerboard" for which it is granted a registered trademark.The Rollerboard is a snowboard with a removable row of wheels along the center of the underside.With the wheels attached,the user can attain extremely high speed in hard packed snow conditions.In addition,many users have found that they can use their snowboards on streets with the wheels attached.This new use of snowboards becomes very popular,and many competing snowboard makers introduce similar products.The sport becomes known generally as rollerboarding and most people refer to all such wheeled snowboards as rollerboards.The consequence of this is that:

Individuals who violate the No Electronic Theft Act may be imprisoned.