Exam 11: Intellectual-Property

The patent practice of other countries is often different from that of the United States.

Which of the following is true regarding remedies for patent infringement?

A utility patent protects any novel,original (rather than nonobvious),and ornamental (rather than useful)design for an article of manufacture.

In the case Association for Molecular Pathology v.Myriad Genetics,Inc.(2013),the U.S.Supreme Court held that under U.S.Patent Laws,isolated DNA is:

Terms that were once enforceable trademarks may become generic and thereby not protected.

Copyright protection does not extend to derivative works.

Arbitrary marks are words or terms that had no prior meaning until used as a trademark in connection with a particular product.

The CASE 11.2 Authors Guild v.Google,Inc.(2016)involves Google's action of creating an index of approximately 20 million scanned books that allows users of its Google Books search engine to enter a word or phrase and generate a list of books that include the word or phrase,as well as a "limited viewing" of text.The court ruled that Google did not violate copyright based on the:

The duration of a copyright granted to a known individual,not a work done for hire,will be:

The U.S.Supreme Court ruled that living organisms can be patented if they are human-made.

Once the Patent and Trademark Office issues a patent,a court may not find it invalid.

Some courts have recognized a form of employee trade secret misappropriation under the __________ Doctrine,which recognizes that former employees who go to work for a competitor in a similar capacity will eventually disclose trade secrets gained in their former employment.

In CASE 11.1 DC Comics v.Towle (2016),the court addressed the question of whether the production of replicas of a copyrighted item featured in a movie infringed the copyright owner's rights.How did the court rule?

The Uniform Trade Secrets Act is a federal law.

As a matter of law,a combination of two inventions cannot be considered nonobvious.

The federal trademark act is known as the __________ Act.

Mandy purchased a business law book and used it during business law class.Mandy later loaned the book to Sage,and then to Chris.Another student accused Mandy of copyright violation and threatened to report Mandy to the book publisher and also to the school's ethics board.Did Mandy violate the copyright laws?

Which of the following are four defenses to patent-infringement claims?

Which of the following is NOT a remedy in a civil suit brought against violators of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)?

Joey invented a new type of device to control dog barking without harming the dog.A month later,Sasha independently invented an almost identical type of device.Sasha filed for a patent immediately.When Joey became aware of Sasha's filing,Joey also filed for patent protection.Assuming that there is no statutory bar between Joey and Sasha,who should be awarded the patent prior to September 16,2003,and why? What about after September 16,2013? What law affects the result after September 16,2013? What would the result be in most other countries?