Exam 7: Intellectual Property and Cyber Piracy

Apart from recovering damages, and recovering profits made by the offender, successful plaintiffs in a misappropriation of a trade secret case can also ________.

Distinctive marks are ordinary words or symbols that have acquired special meaning with a product or service.

If a competitor reverse engineers a trade secret, then the competitor is ________.

How do patent laws help an inventor?

A service mark is used to distinguish the product of the holder from those of its competitors.

After the copyright period runs out, the work enters the public domain.

When does a patent enter the public domain?

________ is a type of trademark dilution where a famous mark is linked to products of inferior quality or is portrayed in an unflattering, immoral, or reprehensible context likely to evoke negative beliefs about the mark's owner.

The trademark symbols "TM" and "SM" can be used with marks that have not been registered.

A party that does not register its brand name has no legal right over it.

A ________ is a grant by the federal government upon the inventor of an invention for the exclusive right to use, sell, or license the invention for a limited amount of time.

Which of the following is NOT a major category of intellectual property protection?

Which of the following intellectual properties is protected by the Lanham Act?

If an invention is obvious, then it does not qualify for a patent.

Which of the following statements is true of the patent period in the United States?

A patent number is given to a patent that is still under consideration.

What is a patent number?

What is acquiring secondary meaning in trademark terms?

A ________ is a patent that protects the functionality of a patent.

"Just Do It" is a famous tagline used by the Nike Corporation. Which of the following types of intellectual property would this tagline come under?