Chapter 6

In what year was The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) signed into law?

1998

How many classes of items did the U.S. Supreme Court rule could not be patented?

3

Which act allows trademark owners to challenge foreign cybersquatters who might otherwise be beyond the jurisdiction of U.S. courts?

ACPA

Which of the following established the minimum levels of protection that each country must provide to all WTO members?

Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS)

Which of the following enables a DVD player or a computer drive to decrypt, unscramble, and play back motion pictures on DVDs, but not copy them?

Content Scramble System (CSS)

Which of the following allows portions of copyrighted materials to be used without permission under certain circumstances?

Fair use doctrine

Under which act was the U.S. patent system changed from a "first-to-invent" to a "first-inventor-to-file" system?

Leahy-Smith America Invents Act

Which of the following terms is defined as the existing body of knowledge available to a person of ordinary skill in the art?

Prior art

Which of the following increased trademark and copyright enforcement and substantially increased penalties for infringement?

Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property (PRO-IP) Act

The process of taking something apart in order to understand it, build a copy of it, or improve it is known as which of the following?

Reverse engineering

Which of the following was a legislator and former singer and entertainer who co-sponsored the Copyright Term Extension Act?

Sonny Bono

Which of the following requires member governments to ensure that intellectual property rights can be enforced under their laws and that penalties for infringement are tough enough to deter further violations?

TRIPS agreement

A patent is a grant of a property right issued by which entity?

USPTO

The courts have ruled in favor of using reverse engineering to:

enable interoperability

What is the name of the agreement that prohibits a departing employee from working for any competitors for a period of time?

non-compete agreement

The redistribution of a program code with no copyright as a proprietary software can be avoided by using which of the following?

open source license

Which of the following terms is used to describe the act of stealing someone's ideas or words and passing them off as one's own?

plagiarism

Cybersquatters

register domain names for famous trademarks or company names to which they have no connection

Copyright and patent protection was established through which of the following?

the U.S. Constitution

One key advantage that trade secret law has over the use of patents and copyrights in protecting companies from losing control of their intellectual property is:

there is no need to file an application or disclose a trade secret to gain protection