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This is a multiple choice quiz…. Q & A

1. What type of patent protects the way a product is used and works?

Choose One • 7 points

• Design patent
• Utility patent
• Plant patent
• Not patentable

2. What type of patent protects the way a product looks?

Choose One • 7 points

• Design patent
• Utility patent
• Plant patent
• Not patentable

3. Utility patent protection in the United States lasts:

Choose One • 7 points

4. Since 2015, design patent protection in the United States lasts:

Choose One • 7 points

5. An inventor must file his/her patent application:

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• Within a year of discovering or creating the invention
• Within a year after any public use, sale, or offer for sale of the invention

6. If you have a great idea for a useful invention, but don’t have the money to file a full-fledged patent application, you can file a “provisional” application. A provisional application is beneficial b

Choose One • 7 points

• Your patent will issue immediately upon filing the provisional application
• You will have one year to determine whether the invention has commercial value and acquire funding before having to file a full non-provisional patent application

7. Under patent law, an invention cannot be patented if it isn’t new. To determine if the invention is new, the patent office will look at “prior art” consisting of:

Choose One • 7 points

• All the artwork existing in the world today
• Publications from around the world, the content of filed patents and public uses within the US

8. Consider the application for a “Shoe sound studio,” utility patent #US20120297960. Do you think it meets the patentability requirement of being useful? Why or why not?

Choose One • 7 points

• Yes because it has a function and appears to work as described in the patent.
• No because very few people would buy it or find it helpful.

9. Consider the patent for “Gloves for touchscreen use” US Patent #8528117. To obtain a utility patent, the item must be useful. What problem does this patented invention solve?

Choose One • 7 points

• Before this invention, people would have to remove their warm gloves to use their touchscreen devices, making their hands get cold.
• Before this invention, people didn’t have an attractive glove to wear while using a touchscreen device.

10. Claims are the picket fence around the invention—everything in a claim is protected and anything not in the claim is not covered. How many claims does utility patent #8528117 cover?

Choose One • 7 points

11. Consider the patent for “Method and means of creating anti-gravity illusion” US 07/905,479. Watch the patented invention in action here:

Choose One • 7 points

*** Look at micheal Jackson video on youtube. “Smooth Criminal” to answer the question..

If you wanted to make and use these shoes, would you need permission from the inventor?

• Yes, the patent is still active because 20 years have not passed since it was filed
• No, the patent has expired because 20 years have passed since it was filed

12. Consider the football helmet chair, design patent #D680342. What claim has the inventor protected?

Choose One • 7 points

• The ornamental design for a football helmet chair, as shown and described.
• The way the chair rocks and swivels.

13. Review the PatentSearch-USPTO.pdf. This will show you how to conduct a patent search at the US Patent and Trademark Office.

Essay • 16 points

Decide on an invention you would like to search. It could be a tablet computer, guitar, marshmallow, video camera, toy action figure, or anything else you’d like. Go to the web site for the USPTO (http://www.uspto.gov) and look for the invention. Then, go to Google.com/patents and look for the same invention.

Write a paragraph summarizing in your own words the invention you searched and why you chose it. Include the patent number in your summary. Write another few sentences on your observations of the difference between the two search engines (Google and USPTO).

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