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 Options:

DeCSS
Content Scramble System (CSS)
Time Warner Cable system
RIAA

Answer: Content Scramble System (CSS)

 

Question: Which of the following claims as its invention some feature or process embodied in instructions executed by a computer?

Answer Options:

cross-licensing agreement
software patent
patent infringement
trade secret

Answer: software patent

 

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 Options:

True
False

Answer: True

 

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 Options:

Prior art
Body of practice
Prior experience
Known facts

Answer: Prior art

 

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 Options:

True
False

Answer: False

 

Question: Because organizations can risk losing trade secrets when key employees leave, they often try to prohibit employees from revealing secrets by adding more-complete clauses to employment contracts.

Answer Options:

True
False

Answer: True

 

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 Options:

WIPO Copyright Agreement
PRO-IP Act
TRIPS agreement
DMCA

Answer: TRIPS agreement

 

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

Answer Options:

ACPA
CAN-SPAM Act
Economic Espionage Act
PRO-IP Act

Answer: ACPA

 

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

Answer Options:

allow the decryption 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

 

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

Answer Options:

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

Answer Options:

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 Options:

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 terms is used to describe the act of stealing someone’s ideas or words and passing them off as one’s own?

Answer Options:

Reverse engineering
Patent trolling
Plagiarism
Cybersquatting

Answer: Plagiarism

 

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

Answer Options:

re-engineering device
decompiler
compiler
open source decoder

Answer: decompiler

 

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

Answer Options:

False
True

Answer: False

 

Question: Cybersquatters:

Answer Options:

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 Options:

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: Which of the following typically involves the use of social networks to communicate and promote the benefits of products and services?

Answer Options:

Door-to-door selling
Word-of-mouth marketing
Social network shopping
Social media marketing

Answer: Social media marketing