Business Law Chapter 06 Learn It

(Laws Protecting Intellectual Property) The holder of a utility patent may protect their rights for:

20 years from the date the apply for the patent

(First Sale Doctrine) The first sale doctrine:

allows a person who owns a lawfully made copy of a copyrighted work to sell the copy

(Intellectual Property) Which international agreement requires its member countries to establish border procedures for searching international shipments of goods?

Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement

(Intellectual Property) the earliest international agreement that provided copyright protections among the signatories to the agreement was the:

Berne Convention

(Intellectual Property) Which of the following types of intellectual property may only be owned by a business?

a trade secret

(Intellectual Property) For an original work of authorship, such as a book, song, poem, article, article, recording, or other work, an author would seek the protection of a:

copyright

(Laws Protecting Intellectual Property) The Lanham Act:

protects the rights of trademark holders

(Intellectual Property) An author may expect to receive copyright protection for the life of the author plus:

70 years

(Patents, Copyrights, trademarks, and Trade Secrets) Which of the following types of trademarks are in the correct order, from highest protection to lowest protection?

Fanciful, arbitrary, suggestive, descriptive, generic

(First Sale Doctrine) Which of the following qualifies for protection under the first sale doctrine?

Lucia purchases a book and later resells it to her friend

(Intellectual Property) Which of the following types of intellectual property protection usually has a set term of 20 years?

patent

(Intellectual Property) to prevent others from making, selling, or using an invention, an inventor should seek what type of intellectual property protection?

patent protection

(Intellectual Property) a business using a word, phrase, symbol, or design to identify and distinguish its brand of goods would protect that branding with a:

trademark

(Intellectual Property) A business will be able to protect its trademark for how long?

if unregistered, as long as it is in use

(Patents, Copyrights, trademarks, and Trade Secrets) Patentability requires the invention to be:

novel, non-obvious, and useful

(Intellectual Property) One of the key purposes of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is:

to bring copyright laws into the digital age by regulating digital media copyright infringement