Exam 10: Intellectual Property Rights

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

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

Under the United States Supreme Court's "doctrine of equivalents," infringers may not avoid liability for patent infringement by substituting insubstantial differences for some of the elements of the patented product or process.

In determining whether limited use of copyrighted material may be permitted as "fair use," courts will consider:

Copyright of a "work made for hire" runs for the life of the creator of the work plus 50 years.

The Lanham Act grants protection for:

Computer software licensing agreements include restrictions on the use of software and give the licensor greater protection than that provided by copyright law.

A copyright bestows upon the creator of an artistic or literary work a federal statutory right to exclusively:

To prevail in an action for trade dress infringement,a plaintiff must prove that its trade dress is distinctive and nonfunctional and the defendant's trade dress is confusingly similar to the plaintiff's.

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

Under the Semiconductor Chip Protection Act reverse engineering exemption,competitors may study mask works but may not use the results of that study to design their own semiconductor chip.

A copyright owner may prohibit even limited use of copyrighted material if it is used for parody or criticism.

The typical U.S.copyright now runs for 28 years,with a right of renewal for an additional 28 years.

Trademarks may be used to protect the exclusive right to identify either products or services.

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

A business formula,information compilation,or device that provides an advantage over competitors that do not have it is known as a:

Although processes and machines are eligible for patent protection,manufactures and compositions of matter are not.

Protection for trade dress is available under the Lanham Act.

To be patentable,an invention must be new and not obvious to a person of ordinary knowledge and skill in the art or technology to which the invention is related.

A showing that an invention as a whole would have been obvious to a person of ordinary skill in the art when the invention was patented is called subsequent art.