chapter3 Flashcards
(16 cards)
………….. is any unique product of the human
intellect that has commercial value.
Intellectual property
T/F Examples of intellectual property are books, songs,
movies, paintings, inventions, chemical formulas, and
computer programs.
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………………… is a confidential piece of intellectual property that provides a company with a competitive advantage.
trade secret
Examples of trade secrets include:
formulas,
processes
strategic plans,
…………….is a word, symbol, picture, sound, or color used by a business to identify goods.
trademark
………… is a mark identifying a service.
service mark
………………….is a way the US government provides an inventor with an exclusive right to a piece of intellectual property.
patent
…………………..is quite different from a trade secret
because a patent is a public document that provides a detailed description of the invention.
patent
…………………is how the government provides
authors with certain rights to original works that
they have written.
copyright
…………..it is legal to
reproduce a copyrighted work without the permission of the copyright holder.
fair use,
………………..refers
transient to a network allowing computers running the same
networking program to connect
with each other and access files stored on each other’s hard drives.
peer-to-peer
……………are Internet-based file-sharing services that allow users to
upload password-protected files.
Cyberlockers
T/F They sold complete systems to customers, and the licensing agreements covered use of the software as well as the hardware
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T/F Most commercial software was produced by the same
companies manufacturing computer hardware.
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T/F Open source is an alternative way of distributing software.
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