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