Copyright/Patent Protection
IP owners have recourse under the what Act?
Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
The Economic Espionage Act of 1996 makes some _________ thefts federal crimes.
trade secret
Patent “____” are companies that don’t create or manufacture anything but instead purchase patents solely to collect licensing fees and threaten lawsuits.
Trolls
In April 2017, which hacking group posted 10 unreleased episodes of “Orange is the New Black”?
The Dark Overlord
(T/F) Insurance solutions are not always available and technological defenses are never foolproof.
False - As such, organizations must be vigilant in developing a holistic approach to protecting their IP.
A patent owner who believes that someone has received a patent that infringes on his or her own patent may submit what?
a Request for Reexamination to the USPTO
If counterfeited or pirated items are for sale online, it should be reported to the FBI’s ________ .
Internet Crime Complaint Center
The founders of the United States – including inventors like _______ – considered the right of inventors to protect their inventions to be so critical to future generations that they included the ability to grant patents as one of the few specified powers granted to the federal government by the United States Constitution.
Benjamin Franklin
A month after "The Dark Overlord" incident, cyber hackers stole a digital copy of what movie and demanded a high Bitcoin payment?
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce states that “publicly traded U.S. companies own an estimated ________ worth of trade secrets.”
$5 Trillion
Most intellectual property infringement cases will be handled in in what kind of court?
Federal Court
If you own intellectual property (IP) in the United States, and you find out that your IP has been stolen or used without permission, the wisest thing to do first is usually to __________
ask the person or the company using your IP to stop doing it
Patent trolls usually target _____ companies?
Small companies who cannot defend themselves legally.
A hacker called "Skote Vashat" stole 1.5 terabytes of data from HBO's servers and demanded $____________ worth of Bitcoin.
5.5 million
What is one less-quantifiable material damage that “Net Present Value of Future Sales” does not fully contemplate.
Loss of product/market advantage to competitors /Missed business opportunity / Loss of reputation or brand loyalty / Declines in stock price or valuation /Direct loss of profitability /
If a case involves an unregistered trademark or a trademark registered only in a single state, where will the case go?
The case will go to a state court
the amount of data stolen from the cable network in 2017 was reportedly ___________times the amount released by a well-publicized attack on a major media company in 2014
7.5
IP owners may want to consider intellectual property __________?
Insurance
What do you call when a hacker takes advantage of a software security vulnerability on the same day the vulnerability becomes generally known"
A zero day exploit
This is one common method of calculating damages in cases alleging theft of trade secrets.
“Net Present Value of Future Sales”
When a cease and desist request has no effect, copyright, trademark, and patent infringement claims can all be handled on which court?
Civil Court
In an April 2017 hacking incident involving a show “Orange is the New Black”, hackers posted unreleased episodes of the show even after ransom payment was made because ________ .
The hackers claimed that the post production studio they hacked violated their agreement by involving the FBI.
Business owners and IP owners, in particular, should learn the definitions and basic legal rules regarding _______, ______, __________, and _________.
patents, trade secrets, trademarks, and copyrights
Hacks accounted for what percentage of all incidents within the media/entertainment industry?
40%
The value of the S&P 500’s intangible assets (of which IP is a subset) grew to an average of ____ percent by January 1, 2015.
87