2024/2025 FSU CIS 3250 Exam 2 Gann Chp 6 – 10 Practice Questions and Answers

2024/2025 FSU CIS 3250 Exam 2 Gann Chp 6 – 10 Practice Questions and Answers The fair use doctrine denies portions of patented materials to be used without permission under any circumstance. - ANSWER-False Which of the following claims as its invention some feature or process embodied in instructions executed by a computer? - ANSWER-Software Patent Which of the following increased trademark and copyright enforcement and substantially increased penalties for infringement? - ANSWER-Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property (PRO-IP) Act A patent is a grant of a property right issued by which entity? - ANSWER-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. - ANSWER-True Copyright and patent protection was established through which of the following? - ANSWER-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? - ANSWER-Trademark Patent law protects which of the following? - ANSWER-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? - ANSWER-Reverse Engineering Which of the following imposes penalties of up to $10 million and 15 years in prison for the theft of trade secrets? - ANSWER-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. - ANSWER-True One of the tests that an invention must pass to be eligible for a patent is which of the following? - ANSWER-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. - ANSWER-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? - ANSWER-TRIPS agreement The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Copyright Treaty of 1996 eliminated many of the original copyright protections for electronic media. - ANSWER-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. - ANSWER-False The courts have ruled in favor of using reverse engineering to: - ANSWER-enable interoperability Industrial espionage and competitive intelligence are essentially the same. - ANSWER-False Under which act was the U.S. patent system changed from a "first-to-invent" to a "first-inventor-to-file" system? - ANSWER-Leahy-Smith America Invents Act Cross-licensing agreements between organizations allow each party to sue the other over patent infringements. - ANSWER-False Copyright infringement is the act of stealing someone's ideas or words and passing them off as one's own - ANSWER-False continues....