Chapter 5 MCQS
Chapter 5 MCQS
Chapter 5 MCQS
2. Intellectual property:
a) Provides a source of competitive advantage
b) Acts as a barrier to create a competitive advantage
c) Does not facilitate the best possible return on investment
d) Attracts potential infringers
3. _ capital refers to the bank of skills, talent and know-how or employees that are used
to execute the everyday tasks of business.
a) Structural
b) Financial
c) Human
d) Capital
5. A grants the holder the right to exclude others from making, selling, using or offering
for sale or importing the invention.
a) Trademark
b) Patent
c) Copy
d) Trade secret
6. The step implies that an invention cannot be purely theoretical and that it
must be possible to apply the invention for practical purposes.
a) Novelty
b) Non-obviousness
c) Utility
d) None of the above
7. Reduction-to-practice refers to the:
a) Formulation of a definite and permanent idea of the invention
b) Physical making of the invention
c) Demonstration that the invention works
d) Both the physical making of the invention and the demonstration that it works
12. Which of the following facilitates the process of filing an international patent?
a) The European Patent Office
b) World Intellectual Property Organisation
c) Office of the Harmonization for the Internal Market
d) The Patent Cooperation Treaty
13. It is estimated that over is lost per annum working on inventions that are already
patented.
a) €100m
b) €200m
c) €300m
d) €400m
14. Patent information can be gathered from:
a) Online databases
b) Paid services
c) All of the above
d) None of the above. It is illegal to gather information on patents