Exam 18: Intellectual Property

In general, the United States grants a patent right to the first person to file for a patent on a product or process rather than to the first person to invent that product or process.

The legal right given to authors to prevent others from duplicating the expression embodied in a protected work is known as a:

Which of the following acts makes the theft or misappropriation of a trade secret a federal crime?

To obtain a patent, the inventor must provide a description of the invention that gives enough detail so that one skilled in the art will be able to make and use them. This is known as an) _____.

The Economic Espionage Act criminalizes the misappropriation of trade secrets with the knowledge or intent that the theft will benefit a foreign power.

Which of the following is true of the Economic Espionage Act EEA)?

Which of the following says that infringing products, processes, or machines need not be identical?

A process, chemical formula, list, plan, or mechanism known only to an employer and those employees who need to know in order to use it in business is known as a:

A patent is a legal right given to authors to prevent others from copying the expression embodied in a protected work.

To be subject to copyright, a writing must fulfill three requirements. What are they?

Which of the following is a grant from the government that gives an inventor the exclusive right to make, use, and sell an invention?

Which of the following acts defined trademark as "any word, name, symbol or any combination thereof adopted and used by a manufacturer or merchant to identify his goods and distinguish them from goods manufactured or sold by others?"

A trade secret gives its owner the right to sue anyone who infringes it from making use of it.

Which of the following is true of copyrights?

McDonald's is an example of a service mark.

Words and phrases, such as names, titles, and slogans are copyrightable.

Which of the following refers to any word, name, symbol, or device or any combination thereof adopted and used by a manufacturer or merchant to identify his goods and distinguish them from goods manufactured or sold by others?

A copyright gives its holder the exclusive right to prepare derivative works based on the copyrighted work.

Which of the following acts provides that the owners of marks of significant value have property rights that should not be eroded, blurred, or tarnished in any way by another?

Copyright protects the expression of ideas in some tangible form and the ideas themselves.