WorksheetsPage 1
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
Which action provides the strongest long-term protection for a confidential business process?
Filing for a copyright
Applying for a patent
Keeping it as a trade secret
Publishing it under an open-source license
Copyright protection for newly created works currently lasts:
50 years from publication
Life of the author plus 70 years
Life of the author plus 50 years
70 years from registration
A student copies code from GitHub without checking the license and submits it as their own project. This is BEST described as:
Fair use
Reverse engineering
Copyright infringement and plagiarism
Acceptable academic practice
A company legally analyzes a competitor’s annual report and marketing strategy to improve its own products. This is:
Industrial espionage
Competitive intelligence
Trade secret theft
Trademark infringement
A software engineer leaves a company and uses confidential algorithms in a new startup. Which protection is MOST directly violated?
Copyright law
Patent law
Trade secret law
Trademark law
Which action is explicitly restricted by the DMCA?
Copying small portions of a book for education
Selling tools designed to bypass DRM protection
Reverse engineering for interoperability
Using copyrighted work for criticism
A startup registers a domain name identical to a famous brand hoping to sell it later. This practice is called:
Cybersquatting
Typosquatting
Domain parking
Brand licensing
Which employee agreement MOST directly prevents knowledge transfer to competitors?
Nondisclosure agreement
Software license
Noncompete agreement
Copyright registration
Which situation would MOST likely fail the fair use defense?
Using a short excerpt of a book for classroom discussion
Quoting copyrighted text for criticism
Uploading an entire textbook to a shared drive
Using a copyrighted image in a parody
Which of the following is a disadvantage of cross-licensing for small businesses?
Increased market competition
Loss of copyright protection
High licensing and legal costs
Automatic patent protection
Which law imposes criminal penalties for the theft of trade secrets?
Economic Espionage Act
Defend Trade Secrets Act
Digital Millennium Copyright Act
Lanham Act
Which agreement is MOST focused on limiting an employee’s future employment?
Copyright license
Software patent
Nondisclosure clause
Noncompete agreement
Which statement BEST explains why open source advocates claim open source software often has higher quality than closed-source software?
Open source software is always free of bugs
Multiple developers can inspect, test, and improve the source code
Open source software is protected by stronger copyright laws
Open source software is developed only by experts
Which organization was established as a result of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)?
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
World Trade Organization (WTO)
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
A software developer wants international recognition that computer programs should be treated as literary works. Which treaty BEST supports this protection?
TRIPS Agreement
PRO-IP Act
WIPO Copyright Treaty (1996)
GATT
The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (2011) primarily changed the U.S. patent system from:
First-to-file to first-to-publish
First-to-invent to first-to-file
First-to-publish to first-to-invent
First-to-file to first-to-grant
Which of the following can function as a trademark?
A software algorithm
A product’s package design
A trade secret formula
A copyrighted book
A trademark can be renewed indefinitely as long as:
It is registered internationally
It is in continuous use in commerce
It is kept confidential
It is published publicly
A student copies a short excerpt from a textbook for a class presentation with proper citation. This use is MOST likely:
Copyright infringement
Fair use
Trademark infringement
Trade secret theft
Before granting a patent, the USPTO examines:
Copyright registration
Trademark similarity
Prior art
Market value
TRUE OR FALSE — Intellectual property owners have no control over how their work is used once published
True
False
TRUE OR FALSE — A patent allows the public to freely use an invention.
True
False
TRUE OR FALSE — Courts use five factors when determining whether a use qualifies as fair use
True
False
TRUE OR FALSE — Reverse engineering is applicable only to software.
True
False
TRUE OR FALSE —Developers may use open source to build reputation and attract clients.
True
False
