Intellectual Property Quiz

What is the definition of an invention?

• A design for a system or artifact that repurposes an existing invention.

• A product of the imagination, a device, contrivance, or process originated after study and experiment.

• A government authority or license giving a right for a set period.

• A type of intellectual property that protects the functionality of an invention.

What does an innovation do?

• It gives a right for a set period.

• It protects the functionality of an invention.

• It repurposes or changes an invention to solve a new problem.

• It identifies a company's goods or services.

What is a patent?

• A type of intellectual property that protects the functionality of an invention.

• A word, phrase, symbol, design, or other device that identifies a company's goods or services.

• A government authority or license giving a right for a set period.

• A document or other evidence of previously known technology.

What does a utility patent protect?

• The unique visual qualities of a manufactured item.

• A new and unique plant's key characteristics.

• The functionality of an invention, such as a machine, process, software, or composition of matter.

• Original works of authorship.

What is a design patent?

• A type of intellectual property that protects the functionality of an invention.

• A type of legal protection for the unique visual qualities of a manufactured item.

• A word, phrase, symbol, design, or other device that identifies a company's goods or services.

• A document or other evidence of previously known technology.

What does a plant patent protect?

• The unique visual qualities of a manufactured item.

• A new and unique plant's key characteristics from being copied, sold, or used by others.

• The functionality of an invention.

• Original works of authorship.

What is a trademark?

• A type of intellectual property that protects the functionality of an invention.

• A word, phrase, symbol, design, or other device that identifies a company's goods or services.

• A government authority or license giving a right for a set period.

• A document or other evidence of previously known technology.

What does copyright protect?

• The unique visual qualities of a manufactured item.

• A new and unique plant's key characteristics.

• Original works of authorship as soon as an author fixes the work in a tangible form of expression.

• The functionality of an invention.

What is a claim in the context of patents?

What is infringement in the context of patents?