Trademarks and Service Marks
This is any word, mark, symbol, device, or combination of these used to identify a product or service.
What is a Mark?
This gives an author, an artist, or a creator copyright protection.
What is the Copyright Act?
This person was the first administrator of the United States' patent system and wrote the Patent Act of 1793.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Coca-Cola's Formula is an example of this.
What is a Trade Secret?
This act provides protection for computer programs, chip designs, and mask works.
What is the Computer Software Copyright Act?
Under the Federal Lanham Act, what is maintained for recording such marks?
What is the Principal Register?
This Amendment provides freedom of speech and the press, which allows for use of portions of another's copyrighted work.
What is the First Amendment?
Under this article, inventors are protected in the same way as authors are protected under copyright laws.
What is Article 1, Section 8?
Employers who have employees sign NDA are using this.
What is a Defensive Measure?
Apple's Face ID software is an example of this.
What is a Patent-Protected Program?
This is individuals who register and set up domain names that already belong to others with existing trademarks.
What is Cybersquatters?
Copyrights protect literary, musical, dramatic, and artistic works. This is called?
What is Copyrightable?
This kind of patent protects new and non-obvious ornamental features.
What is a Design Patent?
Under this act, knowingly stealing, soliciting, or obtaining trade secrets with the intent to use this information is a crime.
What is the Federal Industrial Espionage Act?
Section 102(b) of the 1980 Computer Software Copyright Act does not protect this.
What is 'Methods of Operations"?
Boston Beer was denied trademark protection because of this.
What is a Geographic Term.
This provides a "safe harbor" for Internet Service Providers (ISPs).
What is Digital Millennium Copyright Act?
Tesla's Autopilot features are protected by this kind of patent.
What is a Utility Patent?
If an employee posts on Facebook the recipe for one of the sauces that their employer makes, which is not to be known, that is an example of this.
What is the Loss of Protection?
This places restrictions on the licensee when using someone else's software.
What is a licensing agreement?
This act does allow truthful comparative advertising and a "fair use" defense for parodying a famous mark.
What is the Trademark Dilution Revision Act?
This was established under the secondary liability doctrines of contributory or vicarious infringements.
What is Liability for Infringement?
This U.S. Supreme Court case dealt with the question of whether the patent holder had the right to obtain the permanent injunctive relief of stopping a business entity from “using” the patented technology.
What is eBay, Inc v. MercExchange, LLC?
This is a unique form of knowledge used to protect information from outsiders who may engage in illegal activities to obtain this information.
What is Industrial Security Plans?
Competitors who not only study mask works but may also use the results to design their own semiconductor chip with their own original masks are protected by this.
What is SCPA's reverse engineering exception?