Exam 9: Intellectual Property

There are utility patents and design patents.

In Audi AG v.D'Amato,where Audi sued D'Amato for trademark violations for selling Audi logo goods on his website audisport.com,D'Amato claimed that there could not be any consumer confusion because he had a disclaimer on his website.The appeals court held that:

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.

In Audi AG v.D'Amato the appeals court held that Audi's name suffered dilution by D'Amato's use of the name Audi in his website advertising.

_____________ occurs when a trademark is used improperly in a domain name.

Which of the following is a drawback to patents:

"Union Made in the USA" is a Cooperative Mark protected by the Lanham Act.

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

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):

_____________ trademarks are not favored by the law and must be shown to have acquired customer recognition to be given legal protection.

Service marks,such as "Home of the Whopper," a Burger King slogan,are protected by the Lanham Act.

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.

Trademarks,trade names,patents,and copyrights represent a category of property called:

If people are told that counterfeit goods are counterfeit then:

An advantage of patent protection is that the invention is kept secret for the life of the patent.

If you write a book,the copyright is good for the rest of your life plus 20 years.

Cybersquatting is restricted by:

Trade dress refers to:

In Feist Publications v.Rural Telephone Service,the Supreme Court noted that copyrighted materials,such as white

The Copyright Office registers more than _____________ copyrights annually.