Chapter 5 Key Terms Flashcards
Service Mark
A trade mark that is used to distinguish the services (rather than the products) of one person or company from those of another
Certification Mark
A mark used by one or more persons, other than the owner, certify the region, materials, mode of manufacture quality or characteristic of specific goods or services.
Collective Mark
A Mark used by members of a cooperative, association, union, or other organization that certify the region, materials, mode of manufacture, quality, or other characteristics of specific goods or services.
Trade dress
The image and overall appearance (“look and feel”) of a product that is protected by trademark law.
Trade Name
A name that a business uses to identify itself and it’s brand. A trade name is directly related to a businesses reputation and goodwill and is protected under trademark law.
License
An agreement by the owner of intellectual property to permit another to use a trademark, copyright, patent, or trade secret for certain limited purposes.
Cyber mark
A trademark in cyberspace
Domain name
Part of an Internet address. The part to the right of the period is top level domain and indicates the type of entity that operates the site, and the part to the left indicates the name chosen by the entity
Cyber squatting
The act of registering a domain name that is the same as or confusingly similar to the trademark of another and then offering to sell that domain back to the trademark owner
Patent
A property right granted by the federal government that gives an inventor an exclusive right to make, use, sell, or offer to sell an invention in the United States for a limited time
Copyright
The exclusive right of author or originator of a literary or artistic production to publish, print, sell or otherwise use that production for a statutory period of time.
Peer-to-peer (p2p) networking
The sharing of resources (such as files, hard drives, and processing styles) among multiple computers.
Distributed network
A network used by persons located (distributed) in different places to share computer files.
Cloud Computing
A web based service that extends a computers software or storage capabilities by allowing users to remotely access excess storage and computing capacity as needed
Trade secret
A formula, device, idea, process, or other information used in a business that gives the owner a competitive advantage in the marketplace
