Exam 10: Intellectual Property Rights

The type of patent that may be granted to developers of plant reproduction methods is called a:

Descriptive terms such as locations and colors are never subject to trademark protections.

Which of the following is not the exclusive right of the holder of a copyright?

The type of patent that may be granted to developers of new and non-obvious ornamental features of manufactured articles is called a(n):

An owner of a copyright may license some of his or her rights to another in exchange for statutorily-prescribed royalty payments.

Design patents have a duration of __________ years.

Once a mark is registered in accordance with federal law, the holder of the mark has the exclusive right to use the mark in perpetuity.

In order to obtain a court order enjoining a competitor from using your trademark, it is necessary to show that:

The Semiconductor Chip Protection Act of 1984 created a new form of industrial intellectual property by protecting mask works and the semiconductor chip products in which they are embodied against chip piracy.

Under the Semiconductor Chip Protection Act's __________ exemption, competitors may not only study mask works, but they may also use the results of that study to design their own semiconductor chip products embodying their own original masks, even if the masks are substantially similar, so long as their products are the result of substantial study and analysis and not merely the result of plagiarism.

Owners of mask works are entitled to the exclusive right to reproduce and distribute their products under U.S. law for a period of:

The Semiconductor Chip Protection Act provides the owner of a mask work fixed in semiconductor chip products the exclusive right for twenty (20) years to reproduce and distribute the products in the United States and to import them into the United States.