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In the decade since the Internet and cellular communication became omnipresent and inexpensive, intellectual property law has been pressed by technology in ways never imagined. Examples include: digital rights management (DRM), creative commons, open source software, digital movie and music downloading, eroding US patent dominance, Internet piracy, personal data ownership and privacy, fair use and the Internet.

Course No. CSE 5192/7192

Sample Final Quiz (October 22, 2005)

                       

TERMINOLOGY QUESTIONS

 

Please give one or two sentence descriptions of each of the following terms:

 

 

  1. A Patent Specification is

 

  1. A Design Patent is

 

  1. Name at least three types of trademarks.

 

  1. What is ICANN?

 

  1. What are the two requirements for a copyright?

 

  1. When does a copyright come into existence?

 

  1. What is a chief goal of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act?

 

  1. Describe the Open Source movement.

 

  1. What is a fair use in copyright?

 

  1. What is intellectual property infringement?

 

  1. The Doctrine of Equivalents in patent law is

 

  1. What is “design around”?

 

  1. Describe the role of an expert witness.

 

  1. Describe the reasons for and general provisions of a non-compete clause.

 

  1. What is a provisional patent application?

 

  1. How are intellectual property rights conveyed (sold) to another?

 

  1. What is RAND and briefly describe the controversy involved?

 

 

 

FINAL QUESTION

 

How would you use the different intellectual property laws to protect your software or other technological innovation (patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret)?