Exam 9: Intellectual Property

About 200,000 patents are issued annually; half go to Americans.

Suggestive trademarks receive the highest level of legal protection for marks.

"Chicken of the Sea" is an example of a suggestive trademark.

In Wal-Mart v. Samara Brothers the Supreme Court held that trade dress protection exists only if the look and feel of a product has "secondary meaning."

Adidas is a famous trademark. If another company sold shoes called addidas that would be:

Only books, and similar written material, may be copyrighted.

The Trademark Protection Act of 1963 established modern trademark law.

The shape and color of a product may be protected by trademark law.

Protection for intellectual property dates back to:

The formula for Coca-Cola is:

The owners of trademarks often know there are counterfeit goods being sold with real-looking trademarks. To obtain relief the mark owners often:

Intellectual property must show some evidence of labor having been provided to create it for protection to be granted.

A trademark may be a:

When a firm has a positive reputation, it is an asset that increases the value of an organization when it is sold. It falls into the category of goodwill.

In Hicklin Engineering v. R.J. Bartell, where Bartell was accused of stealing trade secrets from his former employer, Hicklin that he now used in competition with Hicklin, the appeals court held that if Hicklin could show that Bartell was using specific trade secrets it would prevail against him.

There is a fair use defense for infringement that covers news or educational use.

Which of the following is an example of a successful descriptive trademark?

Unlike in the United States, in Europe patents for surgery methods:

Trademarks that are inherently distinctive are classified as:

"Inherently distinctive" trade dress is protected under the: