CH 28 - Intellectual Property
Which of the following could receive copyright protection? (select all that apply)
- Computer games - Books
Which of the following would be considered trade secrets? (select all that apply)
- Manufacturing processes - Customer lists
Fair use applies when the copyrighted material is used in connection with which of the following? (select all that apply)
- Research - Parody - Education
In a restrictive covenant, the employee agrees not to work in similar employment ___________. (select all that apply)
- within a certain geographic area - within a specified time period
How long does a patent generally last?
20 years
Which of the following is NOT a basic rule to follow to protect a firm's trademark?
Always use a trademark as a common descriptive adjective
What is the term for a government-granted protection given to creators of literary, creative, or artistic works?
Copyright
What type of patent is awarded to individuals or business firms to protect distinctive patterns, figures, and shapes?
Design patent
What is the term for a unique identifier that serves as an address for a web page?
Domain name
Which doctrine allows for use of copyrighted material without authorization under certain circumstances?
Fair use doctrine
What is the term for trademarked words that become part of the common language?
Generic
Trademark is defined in which of the following federal statutes?
Lanham Act
Software producers attempt to use licensing to protect against what?
Losses from copying of software
What is the term for a government-granted protection awarded to inventors, which gives the holder the exclusive right to manufacture, sell, and use the invention?
Patent
What is the term for an agreement in which the employee agrees not to work in similar employment?
Restrictive covenant
What is the name of the test used to determine whether a person or business has violated the copyright of another?
Substantial similarity test
What happens when the trademark loses its significance as an indication of origin?
The owner loses the rights to the trademark
What is the term for a distinctive, nonfunctional feature of goods that distinguishes it from other goods?
Trade dress
What is the term for specialized knowledge associated with a particular business?
Trade secret
What is the term for any word, name, symbol, device, or combination thereof adopted and used by a manufacturer or a merchant to identify their goods and distinguish them from goods manufactured or sold by others?
Trademark
True or false: A patent cannot be renewed.
True
In the case of computer-related inventions, the requirement that an invention be __________ is often difficult to meet because many computer features are based on mathematical formulas.
a device
A design patent combines some of the characteristics of patents and ____________.
copyrights
The trade dress of a product relates to its total ______ and can include the color of the packaging or the configuration of goods.
image
Many trademarks have been _______ because they were so successful that they entered the language as ordinary words.
lost
If a computer program is merely an adaptation of another, similar program, it could not be patented because it would not satisfy the requirement that the invention be ___________.
novel
Under the substantial similarity test, courts ask whether a(n) _________________ comparing two works would conclude that one was copied from the other.
ordinary reasonable observer
Frequently, software producers require that individual users who have purchased the software register their _______________.
ownership
The law of _______ applies to ownership of domain names.
trademarks
