Question: 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?

Answer Choices: Reverse engineering

Patent trolling

Plagiarism

Cybersquatting

Answer: Plagiarism

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

Answer Choices: ACPA

CAN-SPAM Act

Economic Espionage Act

PRO-IP Act

Answer: ACPA

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

Answer Choices: Copyright infringement

Plagiarism

Fair use doctrine

Use of prior art

Answer: Fair use doctrine

Question: 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:

Answer Choices: trade secrets can become part of the prior art and be used to protect patents and copyrights

no royalties must be paid on trade secrets

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

the time limitation for a trade secret is longer than for patents and copyrights

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

Question: Which of the following can read the machine language of a software program and produce the source code?

Answer Choices: re-engineering device

decompiler

compiler

open source decoder

Answer: decompiler

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

Answer Choices: World Trade Organization (WTO)

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

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

Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)

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

Question: The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Copyright Treaty of 1996 eliminated many of the original copyright protections for electronic media.

Answer Choices: False

True

Answer: False

Question: Cybersquatters:

Answer Choices: frequently launch denial-of-service attacks against popular Web sites

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

employ phishing tactics using the domain names of popular Web sites

remain connected to popular Web sites for extremely long periods of time

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

Question: What type of system enables physicians to place orders electronically, with the order transmitted directly to the recipient?

Answer Choices: clinical decision support (CDS) system

health information exchange (HIE) system

computerized provider order entry (CPOE) system

telemedicine system

Answer: computerized provider order entry (CPOE) system

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

Answer Choices: allow the domination of a particular software market by a single manufacturer

provide access to protected elements of an original work

circumvent restrictive trade secrets

enable interoperability

Answer: enable interoperability