Question 1

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?

Accepted Answer

A) Hill-Burton Act 
B) Trademark Law Revision Act 
C) Trademark Counterfeiting Act 
D) Trademark Dilution Act 
E) Lanham Act

Question 2

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:

Accepted Answer

A) patent. 
B) service mark. 
C) trade secret. 
D) copyright. 
E) trademark.

Question 3

Under the Trademark Law Revision Act,a trademark once obtained remains protected for fifty years.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

Which of the following allows for the use of copyrighted material in criticism,comment,news,reporting,teaching,scholarship,or research that does not significantly reduce the market for the copyrighted material?

Accepted Answer

A) Fair use doctrine 
B) Doctrine of equivalents 
C) Doctrine of indivisibility 
D) Erie doctrine 
E) Carltona doctrine

Question 5

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.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

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?

Accepted Answer

A) Copyright 
B) Certification mark. 
C) Trade secret 
D) Trademark 
E) Patent

Question 7

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

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?"

Accepted Answer

A) Trademark Law Revision Act 
B) Hill-Burton Act 
C) Lanham Act 
D) Trademark Dilution Act 
E) Trademark Counterfeiting Act

Question 10

Which of the following is true of copyrights?

Accepted Answer

A) Copyright law protects original ideas in tangible or intangible form. 
B) A copyright in the U.S.lasts for the life of the author or fifty years,whichever is shorter. 
C) The Berne Convention mandated the use of the copyright symbol in order to establish copyright. 
D) They Copyright Act is limited to forms of expression that can be written on paper and preserved. 
E) A copyright begins when the work is fixed in tangible form,for example,when a book is written.

Question 11

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Exam 30: Intellectual Property

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?

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:

Under the Trademark Law Revision Act,a trademark once obtained remains protected for fifty years.

Which of the following allows for the use of copyrighted material in criticism,comment,news,reporting,teaching,scholarship,or research that does not significantly reduce the market for the copyrighted material?

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.

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?

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

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

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?"

Which of the following is true of copyrights?

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