Exam 9: Intellectual Property

Trade secrets can be shared with all employees in a firm so long as all are told that it is a trade secret.

"Apple" (computers) and "Exxon" (gasoline) are examples of what kind of trademark?

Dilution as a trademark violation applies primarily to famous marks.

A group of farmers could agree to label their food products with a collective mark.

A copyright is good for the life of the author of the copyrighted material, plus another one hundred years.

Suppose a company steals a commercial trade secret from another company:

If artists who are employed at Disney draw cartoons as part of their work, the copyright belongs to them; it cannot belong to a corporation.

"Zipper" is an arbitrary and fanciful mark.

In Wal-Mart v. Samara Brothers, where Wal-Mart was accused of copying the design of children's clothing, the Supreme Court held that for trade dress protection to exist, the good or service must:

Public facts presented in an original manner may be copyrighted.

The International Silk Association uses the motto "Only silk is silk." That is a:

A service mark is:

Logos, words, designs and phrases are all examples of things that could be:

The right of the author to have proper attribution of authorship and to prevent unauthorized changes in or destruction of an artist's work is a(n):

In Feist Publications v. Rural Telephone Service Co., involving the copying of white-page telephone listings, the Supreme Court held that:

The term of copyright protection is:

Once the shoe company Nike obtained a trademark for a line of shoes called Shox, no other company was allowed to use that name for any product.

Trade dress law falls under trademark law and the Lanham Act.

The motto "Union Made in the USA" is a:

A generic trademark is licensed to all firms in the same industry.