Intellectual Property

Choose the BEST answer. Copyright protects all original works EXCEPT:

Ideas, Concepts

When did the courts clarify that the Copyright Act gave computer programs the copyright status of literary works?

1983

Which can be used as a trademark for a software product or company?

A symbol, a name, a word

Which describes a fundamental or basic conceptual problem with granting software patent introduced by the Supreme Court and in the Alice case?

All software requires generic computers to perform generic computer functions

What does the "on-sale bar" for patents do?

Bars the patenting of items offered for sale

Which made it illegal to make technology to circumvent copyright measures?

Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)

Order the following Trademark brand names from distinctive (fanciful) to generic.

Kodak The Weather Channel MILK

There are TWO basic requirements for software to be patent eligible. The invention should be which of the following. Choose BOTH (two) requirements below:

More than an "abstract idea" "Transform" the abstract idea into a patent-eligible application

Match the type of intellectual property to the best definition, description, or characterization.

Protection for original works fixed in a tangible medium. This protect the owners right to reproduce or distribute or perform or display or prepare derivative works - Copyright A grant by the government of a right to exclude others from practicing a particular invention for a set period of time. This covers processes or machines and articles of manufacture - Patent Any word or name or symbol or device used to identify and distinguish their goods or services from those made and sold by others. This covers product shapes and picture of a person or character - Trademark

Which of the following does NOT prevent you from patenting your idea?

Someone else thought of the idea first

In the United States, computer programs are protected under the definition of which type of "works" according to the Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 101?

literary works

What does a trademark protect?

logos, names, and brands