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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:

A) the time limitation for a trade secret is longer than for patents and copyrights
B) no royalties must be paid on trade secrets
C) trade secrets can become part of the prior art and be used to protect patents and copyrights
D) there is no need to file an application or disclose a trade secret to gain protection

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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

A) World Trade Organization (WTO)
B) Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
C) The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
D) Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS)

E) None of the above
F) All of the above

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One of the tests that an invention must pass to be eligible for a patent is which of the following?

Industrial espionage and competitive intelligence are essentially the same.

Formulas, inventions, and processes are not considered forms of intellectual property.

Software, video games, multimedia works, and Web pages can all be copyrighted.

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

State the background and purpose of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights.

The World Trade Organization (WTO) developed the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights to establish the minimum levels of protection that each government must provide to the intellectual property of all WTO members.

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

Which act was drafted in the 1970s to bring uniformity to all the United States in the area of trade secret law?

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

Which of the following imposes penalties of up to $10 million and 15 years in prison for the theft of trade secrets?

The fair use doctrine denies portions of patented materials to be used without permission under any circumstance.

Open source code is any program whose source code is made available for use or modification, as users or other developers see fit.

Identify what types of work are eligible to be copyrighted.

Cross-licensing agreements between organizations allow each party to sue the other over patent infringements.

The redistribution of a program code with no copyright as a proprietary software can be avoided by using which of the following?

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.

A trademark permits its owner to exclude the public from making, using, or selling a protected invention, and allows for legal action against violators.