Question: Which of the following terms is defined as the existing body of knowledge available to a person of ordinary skill in the art?
Answer Choices: Prior art
Body of practice
Prior experience
Known facts
Answer: Prior art
Question: 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?
Answer Choices: DeCSS
Content Scramble System (CSS)
Time Warner Cable system
RIAA
Answer: Content Scramble System (CSS)
Question: 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 Choices: WIPO Copyright Agreement
PRO-IP Act
TRIPS agreement
DMCA
Answer: TRIPS agreement
Question: Because organizations can risk losing trade secrets when key employees leave, they often try to prohibit employees from revealing secrets by adding non-compete clauses to employment contracts.
Answer Choices: True
False
Answer: True
Question: Which of the following claims as its invention some feature or process embodied in instructions executed by a computer?
Answer Choices: cross-licensing agreement
software patent
patent infringement
trade secret
Answer: software patent
Question: Reverse engineering can only be applied to computer hardware, not computer software.
Answer Choices: False
True
Answer: False
Question: Legally obtained information that is gathered to help a company gain an advantage over its rivals is called which of the following?
Answer Choices: competitive intelligence
police act
industrial espionage
trade secrets
Answer: competitive intelligence
Question: 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 Choices: True
False
Answer: False
Question: Open source code is any program whose source code is made available for use or modification, as users or other developers see fit.
Answer Choices: True
False
Answer: True
Question: Under which act was the U.S. patent system changed from a “first-to-invent” to a “first-inventor-to-file” system?
Answer Choices: Leahy-Smith America Invents Act
Uniform Trade Secrets Act
Lanham Act
Economic Espionage Act
Answer: Leahy-Smith America Invents Act