Exam 6: Intellectual Property

The PRO-IP Act of 2008 increased trademark and copyright enforcement, and substantially increased penalties for infringement.

State the background and purpose of the TRIPS Agreement.

Copyright law guarantees developers the rights to their works for a certain amount of time. Over the years, the term of copyright has been extended several times from its original limit of 17 1/2 years.

The portion of the WIPO Copyright Treaty that prohibits circumvention of any technical measures put in place to protect the works was implemented in U.S. law through the ________________________________________. or or or

Protecting computer software has proven to be difficult because it is has not been well categorized under the law.

Unlike a copyright, a patent prevents ____________________ as well as copying.

The WIPO Copyright Treaty of 1996 eliminated many of the original copyright protections for electronic media.

Only a small amount of open source code is available for use.

Identify what types of work are eligible to be copyrighted.

The ____ is the trade group that represents the U.S. recording industry.

____________________ law helps safeguard information that is critical to an organization's success.

Software, video games, multimedia works, and Web pages can all be copyrighted.

Cybersquatters ____.

Under the ACPA, trademark holders can seek civil damages of up to ____ from cybersquatters that register their trade names or similar-sounding names as domain names.

_________________________ is a violation of the rights secured by the owner of a copyright.

A patented process or invention that is surreptitiously included within a standard without being made public until after the standard is broadly adopted is called a(n) ____.

Copyright law protects authored works such as art, books, and film.

Two software manufacturers could conceivably develop separate programs that perform the same functions in a nearly identical manner without infringing the other's copyright.

A few of the larger software companies have cross-licensing agreements in which each party agrees not to sue the other over trademark infringements.

The ____ Act enacted in 1999, allows trademark owners to challenge foreign cybersquatters who might otherwise be beyond the jurisdiction of U.S. courts.