Exam 9: Intellectual Property

Arbitrary and fanciful trademarks receive the strongest legal protection.

Goodwill is:

Counterfeit goods:

The term of copyright protection is:

The World Intellectual Property Organization:

Which of the following is not a category of trademarks:

In Bohnsack v. Varco, inventor Bohnsack discussed selling an invention to Varco for it produce but no agreement was reached. Bohnsack later claimed Varco stole the idea and filed for a patent on the idea. He sued Varco for theft of trade secret. The appeals court held that:

A patent can be issued in the U.S. even if the invention is known outside of the U.S., so long as the party applying for the patent in the U.S. is the first to apply for it in the U.S. since patent protection is domestic.

If you register a trademark under the Lanham Act, the registration of the mark will last for twenty years, and then registration may be renewed.

Under the Copyright Act, a copyright owner has which of the following rights?

Which is not a form of intellectual property?

Intellectual property must be convertible to "practical use."

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 since anyone could observe process in question at Hicklin, it was not a secret that could be protected.

To register a copyright, you need not:

The law of copyright gives a copyright owner all of the following rights except the right:

Rights of literary property as recognized by law are:

If you create a new statute, you can register a copyright for it.

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

A trademark examiner reviews trademark requests to make sure:

____ occurs when another person who, at any time after the owner's mark has become famous, commences use of a mark or trade name in commerce that is likely to cause dilution by blurring or dilution by tarnishment of the famous mark, regardless of the presence or absence of actual or likely confusion, of competition, or of actual economic injury.