FSU CIS 3250 Exam 2 Gann Chp 6 - 10
The fair use doctrine denies portions of patented materials to be used without permission under
any circumstance. - ✔✔False
Which of the following claims as its invention some featu
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FSU CIS 3250 Exam 2 Gann Chp 6 - 10
The fair use doctrine denies portions of patented materials to be used without permission under
any circumstance. - ✔✔False
Which of the following claims as its invention some feature or process embodied in instructions
executed by a computer? - ✔✔Software Patent
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
A patent is a grant of a property right issued by which entity? - ✔✔USPTO
Using reverse engineering, a developer can use the code of the current database programming
language to recover the design of the information system application. - ✔✔True
Copyright and patent protection was established through which of the following? - ✔✔U.S.
Constitution
Which of the following is a logo, package design, phrase, sound, or word that enables a
consumer to differentiate one company's products from another's? - ✔✔Trademark
Patent law protects which of the following? - ✔✔Inventions
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 Enineering
Which of the following imposes penalties of up to $10 million and 15 years in prison for the theft
of trade secrets? - ✔✔The Economic Espionage Act (EEA) of 1996
The Lanham Act (also known as the Trademark Act) defines the use of a trademark, the process
for obtaining a trademark, and the penalties associated with trademark infringement. - ✔✔True
One of the tests that an invention must pass to be eligible for a patent is which of the following? -
✔✔it must be obvious to a person having ordinary skill in the same field
A trademark permits its owner to exclude the public from making, using, or selling a protected
invention, and allows for legal action against violators. - ✔✔False
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
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Copyright Treaty of 1996 eliminated
many of the original copyright protections for electronic media. - ✔✔False
A trademark is business information that represents something of economic value, has required
effort or cost to develop, has some degree of uniqueness or novelty, is generally unknown to the
public, and is kept confidential. - ✔✔False
The courts have ruled in favor of using reverse engineering to: - ✔✔enable interoperability
Industrial espionage and competitive intelligence are essentially the same. - ✔✔False
Under which act was the U.S. patent system changed from a "first-to-invent" to a "first-inventorto-file" system? - ✔✔Leahy-Smith America Invents Act
Cross-licensing agreements between organizations allow each party to sue the other over patent
infringements. - ✔✔False
Copyright infringement is the act of stealing someone's ideas or words and passing them off as
one's own - ✔✔False
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was signed into law in 1998 and implements
two 1996 WIPO treaties. - ✔✔True
Firefox and OpenOffice are al
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