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