Exam 5: Intellectual Property and Internet Law

Mary Kate Corporation allows Ashley Company to use Mary Kate's trademark as part of Ashley's domain name. This is

To be patentable, an invention, discovery, or design must be novel, useful and not obvious in light of current technology.

The 1995 Federal Trademark Dilution Act allowed trademark owners to bring suit in federal court for trademark dilution.

Jeannie runs a dude ranch called J Bar B Dude Ranch and has a Web site called www,jbarbduderanch.com. Ben starts another dude ranch and registers a Web site called www,jbarbduderanch.com. Ben is

It is estimated that over 70 percent of the goods imported to the United States are counterfeit.

A trade name can be protected if it is unusual or fanciful.

Anyone who writes a book has automatic international copyright protection.

Each member country of the TRIPS agreement must include in its domestic laws intellectual property rights.

Which of the following cannot be registered as a trade name?

Gas Up, Inc., designs, makes, and sells a fuel injection system that copies Hybrid Corporation's design without Hybrid's permis?sion. This is most likely

A fanciful use of ordinary words may be trademarked.

E-Shopping Corporation inserts Fiesta Mall, Inc.'s trademark as a meta tag in E-Shopping's Web site's key-words field without Fiesta's permission in a manner that suggests Fiesta authorized the use. This is

James buys a copy of the book Downpour. Later, after reading the book, James sells it to his sister. Under the first sale doctrine, James's sale of the book is

It is possible to copyright an idea.

Mace copies Nick's book, Mumbai Monsoon, in its entirety and sells it to Parkland Books, Inc., without Nick's permission. Parkland publishes it under Mace's name. This is

Downloading software or music into a computer's random access memory without authorization is copyright infringement.

In 2003, Hawk Corporation begins making and selling electric motorcycles under the mark "Hawk." Ten years later, Hawk.com, Inc., a differ?ent company selling medical equipment and supplies, begins to use "hawk" as part of its URL and registers it as a domain name. Can Hawk Corporation stop Hawk.com's use of "hawk"? If so, what must the motorcycle-maker show?

The idea for "On Your Mark," a computer game featuring world-class athletic competition in extreme and unique contests, is protected by

Billy opens a bicycle shop that sells an innovative new kind of bicycle. He decides to call the bicycles "Bicycles." Billy extensively markets his product, has a high sales volume and becomes well known for selling Bicycles. The term Bicycle

Copyright protection is automatic-registration is not required.