CH8
A beverage company that competes with Coca-Cola Company cannot call its products "Koke
" TRUE
A certification mark distinguishes products approved or "certified," by the government,
FALSE
A copyright owner must place a © or an ® on the work to have the work protected from copyright infringement
FALSE
A customer list is not a trade secret
FALSE
A generic term is not protected under trademark law unless it acquires a secondary meaning
FALSE
A patent and a copyright are examples of intellectual property but a trademark is not an example of intellectual property,
FALSE
A person who buys a copyrighted work cannot sell it to someone else
FALSE
A service mark distinguishes products used or "put into service," by the government,
FALSE
Anyone who writes a book has automatic international copyright protection
FALSE
Foreign firms cannot obtain U.S. patent protection on items that they sell in the United States
FALSE
It is estimated that over 70 percent of the goods imported to the United States are counterfeit
FALSE
It is possible to copyright an idea
FALSE
Pricing information is not a trade secret
FALSE
The need to protect intellectual property is recognized in the Declaration of Independence
FALSE
A copy does not need to be exactly the same as the original to infringe a copyright
TRUE
A fanciful use of ordinary words may be trademarked
TRUE
A license permits the use of another's intellectual property for certain limited purposes
TRUE
A marketing technique can be a trade secret
TRUE
A suggestive use of ordinary words may be trademarked
TRUE
A trade name can be protected if it is unusual or fanciful
TRUE
A trademark can be diluted by the use of a similar mark
TRUE
A trademark does not need to be registered to support a trademark infringement action
TRUE
By using another's trademark a business could lead consumers to believe that its goods were made by the other business,
TRUE
Copyright protection is automatic—registration is not required
TRUE
Each member country of the TRIPS agreement must include in its domestic laws intellectual property rights
TRUE
In the European Union the period of royalty protection for musicians is seventy years
TRUE
Information that is not or cannot be protected under trademark patent, or copyright law may be protected under the law of trade secrets
TRUE
Patent infringement is a tort
TRUE
The 1995 Federal Trademark Dilution Act allowed trademark owners to bring suit in federal court for trademark dilution
TRUE
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement applies to counterfeit physical goods and to pirated copyrighted works being distributed via the Internet
TRUE
The TRIPS agreement established standards for the international protection of intellectual property rights for computer programs
TRUE
The owner of intellectual property may put restrictions on the use of the intellectual property in a license agreement
TRUE
The states and the federal government provide for registration of trademarks
TRUE
To be patentable an invention, discovery, or design must be novel, useful, and not obvious in the light of current technology
TRUE
Trade names have the same legal protection as trademarks
TRUE