UNIT 13: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY QUIZ
Name: __________________________________ Date: ________ Score: ______
1. Which of the following is an acceptable reason for refusal to register a trademark?
a. The trademark is contrary to accepted standards of morality
b. The trademark contains an object or animal that is present in another registered
trademark
c. The trademark contains a word that is in common usage
d. The trademark contains the colors of a sovereign country’s flag
2. Any idea or artistic creation that is recorded in some form, whether it’s hard copy or
digital.
a) Creative Work
b) Copyright
c) Creative Commons
d) License
3. A law that protects your control over the creative work you make so that people must get
your permission before they copy, share, or perform your work.
a. Creative Work
b. Copyright
c. Creative Commons
d. License
4. When applying for a patent which of the following is not one of the three requirements of
novelty?
a. The invention must be new
b. The invention must represent a clear departure from existing knowledge
c. The invention must have capability for industrial application
d. The invention must have an application not currently fulfilled by an existing invention
5. Which of the following is not protected by trademark laws?
a. Logos
b. Book titles
c. Pseudonyms
d. Trade dress
6. There is no international copyright law
a. True
b. False
7. A kind of copyright that makes it easier for people to copy, share, and build on your
creative work, as long as they give you credit for it.
a) Creative Work
b) Copyright
c) Creative Commons
d) License
8. Intellectual Property does not include:
A Patents
B Copyrights
C Physical Assets
D Trademark
9. A …………………. is an exclusive right granted for an invention.
A Copyrights
B Logo
C Patents
D Trademark
10. Which of following would not gain copyright protection?
A A DVD
B An unrecorded speech
C Written lyrics of a song
D A Slogan
11. A scientist develops data while working at Harvard University. He then moves to Stanford
University, where he publishes an article using the original data in JAMA. Who owns the
data?
a) Harvard University
b) Stanford University
c) Scientist
d) JAMA
12. A clear way to define the copyright of your creative work so people know how it can be
used.
a) Creative Work
b) Copyright
c) Creative Commons
d) License
13. What type of protection could be used for Music...
a) Copyright
b) Logo
c) Letterhead
d) Patent
14. Stealing copyrighted work by downloading or copying it in order to keep, sell, or give it
away without permission and without paying.
a) Plagiarize
b) Public Domain
c) Piracy
d) Fair Use
15. Creative work that’s not copyrighted and therefore free for you to use however you want.
a) Plagiarize
b) Public Domain
c) Piracy
d) Fair Use
16. Copying, “lifting,” or making slight changes to some or all of someone else’s work and
saying you created it.
a) Plagiarize
b) Public Domain
c) Piracy
d) Fair Use
17. The ability to use a small amount of copyrighted work without permission, but only in
certain ways and in specific situations (schoolwork and education, news reporting,
criticizing or commenting on something, and comedy/parody).
a) Plagiarize
b) Public Domain
c) Piracy
d) Fair Use
18. Amy decided to ____________________ her paper for class by copying and pasting from
Wikipedia and saying she wrote it.
a) Plagiarize
b) Copyright
c) Piracy
d) Fair Use
19. Example of trademark is:
a) Letterheads
b) Software
c) Logos
d) Inventions
20. Books, movies, music, websites, games, and pieces of art are all examples of
____________________.
a) Creative Commons
b) Copyright
c) Creative Work
d) License
21. When Dwayne used a kind of copyright to make it easy for others to copy and share his
video, he was using ____________________.
a) Creative Commons
b) Public Domain
c) Copyright
d) Fair Use
22. Eric uses a program where he "rips" movies and "burns" them to DVDs, which he then
sells to friends. What Eric is doing is called ____________________.
a) Plagiarize
b) Downloading
c) Piracy
d) Fair Use
23. Alex had an idea for a poem in his head for the longest time, but once he finally wrote it
down it instantly had a ____________________.
a) Creative Commons
b) Public Domain
c) Copyright
d) Creative Work
24. Which one of the following actions is not a breach of copyright?
a) To import copied CDs
b) To make a copy of a CD and sell it.
c) To borrow a CD from a friend and copy it to your laptop for your own private use
d) To purchase a CD and copy it to your laptop for your own private use
25. Angela has a Flickr page with all of her photos, and in order to define for others how she
wants her photos to be used, she created a copyright ____________________ that is listed
on her page.
a) Creative Work
b) Copyright
c) Creative Commons
d) License
