Exam 6: Intellectual Property

A patent demon is a firm that acquires patents with no intention of manufacturing anything, instead licensing the patents to others.

An area that holds the potential for software copyright infringement involves the sale of ____________________ consumer computer supplies.

A(n) ____________________ prohibits an employee from working for any competitors for a period of time.

In 2009, ____ announced that it would donate some 3,000 patents for free use by developers to help them innovate and build new hardware and software. The announcement represented a major shift in this firm's intellectual property strategy and was meant to encourage other patent holders to donate their own intellectual property.

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act made it an offense to circumvent a technical protection of copyrighted material.

____________________ employs illegal means to obtain business information not available to the general public.

Plagiarism software checks for matching text in different documents as a means of identifying potential plagiarism.

One of the tests that an invention must pass to be eligible for a patent is ____.

Open source code is any program whose source code is made available for use or modification, as users or other developers see fit.

The existing body of knowledge that is available to a person of ordinary skill in the art is called ____________________.

The WTO developed the ______________________________________________________________________ to establish minimum levels of protection that each government must provide to the intellectual property of all WTO members. or

A(n) ____ prohibits an employee from working for any competitors for a period of time.

What is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act? Give an example of how has it been applied.

The process of taking something apart in order to understand it, build a copy of it, or improve it is called ____.

Because organizations can risk losing trade secrets when key employees leave, they often try to prohibit employees from revealing secrets by adding ____________________ to employment contracts.

The courts have ruled in favor of using reverse engineering to enable ____.

The Economic Espionage Act imposes penalties of up to $10 million and 15 years in prison for the theft of trade secrets.

Legally obtained information that is gathered to help a company gain an advantage over its rivals is called ____.

Copyright and patent protection was established through the __________________________________________________, which specifies that Congress shall have the power "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Rights to their respective Writings and Discoveries." or or

Software cannot be patented.