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en
{"A": "new technical solution to a problem", "B": "process", "C": "product", "D": "for an idea or principle"}
D
Patent is not granted
en
{"A": "anyone who uses design", "B": "anyone who replicates useful process or machine", "C": "anyone who invents a new, original, and ornamental design for an article of manufacture", "D": "anyone who replicates a ornamental design"}
C
Design patents may be granted to whom in US Scenario?
en
{"A": "4 members", "B": "3 members", "C": "5 members", "D": "7 members"}
B
Opposition Board consists of
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{"A": "exclusive right", "B": "Inclusive right", "C": "Both a and b", "D": "tangible property"}
A
A patent is ____________granted by a country to the owner of an invention to make, use, manufacture and market the invention, provided the invention satisfies certain conditions stipulated in the law.
en
{"A": "Yes", "B": "No", "C": "Jammu and Kashmir has an independent Patent Act", "D": "Ladakh Union Territory has an independent act"}
B
Is Indian Patent Act 1970 applicable to Ladakh Union Territory?
en
{"A": "WHO", "B": "UNICEF", "C": "PCT", "D": "NASA"}
C
A National Phase Application may be filed in India because India is a member of the
en
{"A": "The District Court", "B": "The High Court", "C": "IPAB", "D": "A or B"}
D
The appropriate court by institution of a suit for infringement of patent is:
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{"A": "no", "B": "certain", "C": "exclusive", "D": "limited"}
C
Trademark confers......rights to use the mark
en
{"A": "Form 1", "B": "Form 2", "C": "Form 3", "D": "Form 15"}
B
Claims are needed to be filled in
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{"A": "It extends to whole of India except for the State of Jammu & Kashmir", "B": "It extends to whole of India", "C": "It extends to whole of India except for the Union Territories and State of Jammu & Kashmir.", "D": "It extends to whole of India and members of the World Intellectual Property Organization"}
B
What is the territorial jurisdiction of the Patents Act, 1970?
en
{"A": "patent", "B": "capable of industrial application", "C": "exclusive licence", "D": "international applicant"}
B
...................., in relation to an invention, means that the invention is capable of being made or used in an industry
en
{"A": "Form 2", "B": "Form 1 and 2", "C": "Form 9", "D": "Form 5"}
B
Which Form can be used for requesting early publication of a patent?
en
{"A": "the appropriateness of intellectual property (IP)", "B": "access to IP", "C": "Technical", "D": "Regional"}
A
What is the concerns regarding genomics?
en
{"A": "It extends to whole of India except for the State of Jammu & Kashmir", "B": "It extends to whole of India", "C": "It extends to whole of India except for the Union Territories and State of Jammu & Kashmir.", "D": "It extends to whole of India and members of the World"}
B
What is the territorial jurisdiction of the Patents Act, 1970?
en
{"A": "standard patent and innovation patent.", "B": "Product and process patent", "C": "instruction patent", "D": "composition patent"}
A
What are types of patents in Australian Scenario?
en
{"A": "grant", "B": "delivery", "C": "licence", "D": "establishment"}
A
Patent rights with respect to any invention are created only upon___ of the patent by the Patent Office following the procedure established by the Patents Act and the Rules
en
{"A": "Reward theory", "B": "Incentive theory", "C": "Prospect theory", "D": "Economic theory"}
B
The ____ builds on the interest of society in works of intellectual property, holding that legal protection for intellectual works serves as an incentive to produce more intellectual works that will ultimately benefit society
en
{"A": "Form-1", "B": "Form-2", "C": "Form-1 and Form-2", "D": "Form-30"}
C
Patent application contains_____
en
{"A": "Pre-grant opposition only", "B": "Post-grant opposition only", "C": "both pre-grant and post-grant opposition", "D": "process opposition only"}
C
Indian Patent system has
en
{"A": "If the applicant is a Startup", "B": "If the applicant is a Natural Person", "C": "In an international application, India has been elected as an International Preliminary Examining Authority", "D": "both A and B"}
D
A request for expedited examination can be filed in the following cases
en
{"A": "protection", "B": "security", "C": "innovation", "D": "rights"}
C
Intellectual property law does incentivise .......
en
{"A": "all European countries", "B": "Some European countries", "C": "only in Switzerland", "D": "only in Liechtenstein"}
A
National patents are available in which European countries
en
{"A": "excessive rights", "B": "additional rights", "C": "exclusive right", "D": "security rights"}
C
Intellectual property rights are _____ over the use of his/her creation for a certain period of time.
en
{"A": "infringement", "B": "Permanent Injunction", "C": "Damages", "D": "Interim Injunction"}
A
Which of the following are remedies to breach of confidential information?
en
{"A": "could do it without major problems", "B": "would not be able to do it because the granted patent was published in the U.K.", "C": "would not be able to do it because the method is used in the U.K.", "D": "would not be able to do it because the method is used in the U.K and patent granted was published in UK"}
B
An inventor was awarded a patent in U.K. on a method for selecting transformed plants and has practiced the mentioned method only in U.K. Six months later, another person who independently invented the same method in Australia wants to obtain a patent in Australia. She:
en
{"A": "Customs Act and the Rules", "B": "Patents Act and the Rules", "C": "Commercial Rules", "D": "Business Ethics"}
B
Patent rights with respect to any invention are created only upon grant of the patent by the Patent Office following the procedure established by the
en
{"A": "Section 2(1)a", "B": "Section 2(1)j", "C": "Section 2(1)z", "D": "Section 2(1)zb"}
D
The term trademark is defined under
en
{"A": "Designs Confidential Information", "B": "Patent and Copyright", "C": "Trademark", "D": "Geographical Indication"}
B
A compulsory licence can be granted for ....
en
{"A": "Consumers", "B": "Clients", "C": "Plant breeders", "D": "Customers"}
C
Under the protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers Rights Act, 2001, _____ have rights to protect the new variety of plant/crop either in person or through any of the designates.
en
{"A": "only the design", "B": "only the logo", "C": "only the equipment", "D": "design,logo and equipment"}
D
The term ‘Intellectual Property Rights’ covers
en
{"A": "the nation", "B": "a section of the society only", "C": "family growth only", "D": "only self growtrh"}
A
IP elevates the development of
en
{"A": "primary and secondary infringement", "B": "first and second infringement", "C": "punishable and non-punishable infringement", "D": "new and old infringement"}
A
Infringement can be classified as -
en
{"A": "to encourage an inventor to disclose an invention by granting exclusive rights over the invention to the inventor.", "B": "to not benefit the public by limiting the scope and term of the exclusive rights granted to an inventor.", "C": "to not benefit the public through encouraging innovation by publishing a full disclosure of the technical details of the invention.", "D": "To benefit only the Owner of the patent"}
A
A policy (or policies) behind the patent system is:
en
{"A": "shopping list", "B": "a character from a storybook", "C": "a textbook", "D": "a bus timetable"}
B
Which of the following is not an example of a literary work?
en
{"A": "world trade organisation", "B": "work trade organisation", "C": "world traffic organisation", "D": "work traffic organisation"}
A
WTO stands for...
en
{"A": "Civil", "B": "Criminal", "C": "Administrative", "D": "personal law"}
D
Which of the following remedies is not available for infringement?
en
{"A": "Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry", "B": "Department of Education Ministry", "C": "Department of rural development Ministry", "D": "Department of Telecom"}
A
Trade Marks Act, 1999 was administered by the
en
{"A": "10 months", "B": "12 months", "C": "18 months", "D": "24 months"}
B
If you file provisional specification, the complete specification is required to be filed within :
en
{"A": "empower communities to promote their traditional knowledge, control its uses and benefit from its commercial exploitation", "B": "for non-comercial use", "C": "not to promote traditional knowledge", "D": "do not benefit from Traditional Knowledge"}
A
Positive protection is the granting of rights that _________
en
{"A": "1978", "B": "1979", "C": "1980", "D": "1982"}
C
When did China became a member of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)?
en
{"A": "Statement 1 is true, 2 is false", "B": "Statement 1 is false, 2 is true", "C": "Statement 1 and 2 both are false", "D": "Statement 1 and 2 both are true"}
B
Which of the following options are correct? Statement 1: Infringement means assignment of an intellectual property right. Statement 2: Infringement means trespass on an intellectual property.
en
{"A": "Private & Public", "B": "Authorised & unauthorized", "C": "Indian and Foreign", "D": "Patents & Copyrights"}
D
Intellectual property is broadly divided into two categories
en
{"A": "patent pooling", "B": "Lack of information to identify benchmarks", "C": "shortage of valuation experts", "D": "Level of subjectivity and assumptions"}
A
Which of the following is not one of the challenges in valuing IP?
en
{"A": "two national application", "B": "two international application", "C": "one international application", "D": "one national application"}
C
Under the Treaty on Patent Cooperation, inventors may submit only ______ which is valid in one or all of the more than 120 countries that are members of this Treaty.
en
{"A": "before", "B": "after", "C": "never", "D": "anytime"}
B
Typically, transfer technology is done ___ protecting the IPR (i.e. patents and copyrights).
en
{"A": "traditional knowledge", "B": "data", "C": "logo", "D": "photos"}
B
E-commerce thing that needs to be considered with respect to IP is
en
{"A": "One invention- one application", "B": "Up to four connected inventions are permissible", "C": "Multiple inventions can be clubbed in one application and special fees to be charged for it", "D": "One major invention and one minor invention are permissible"}
A
Every application for a patent shall be for one invention only and shall be filed in Form-1 at an appropriate office
en
{"A": "up to 25", "B": "up to 20", "C": "up to 30", "D": "up to 15"}
B
How much time does standard patent gives protection and control over an invention for a non-pharmaceutical substances in Australian scenario?
en
{"A": "A is true but R is false", "B": "A is false but R is true", "C": "Both A and R are true and R is not the correct explanation of A", "D": "Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A"}
D
Which of the following options are correct?Assertion: Patents protect inventions. Reason: Intellectual property rights are descriptive of the character of the things that it protects.
en
{"A": "Article 40", "B": "Article 39", "C": "Article 30", "D": "Article 44"}
A
The mandate relating to confidential information under TRIPS is provided under
en
{"A": "Novelty", "B": "Inventive Step", "C": "Innovation", "D": "Industrial Applicability"}
C
Which of the following is not a rule for patentability in Japanese scenario?
en
{"A": "mode or principle of construction", "B": "features of shape", "C": "composition of lines or colours", "D": "shape of the object"}
A
A design in India does not include
en
{"A": "Patent Portfolio Management", "B": "Patent License", "C": "Patent Thicket", "D": "Patent Pool"}
A
Multiple patents are filed over a period of time on improvements or modifications, to extend the life of the patent
en
{"A": "Paris Convention, 1883", "B": "Berne convention, 1886", "C": "Madrid Agreement, 1891", "D": "Madrid Protocol, 1989"}
B
Which one is not related to trademarks
en
{"A": "Pharmaceutical Products", "B": "Diagnostic kits required for their use", "C": "Medicinal Plants", "D": "Clinical Trial Data"}
A
Compulsory License for export under Indian Patents Act is for--
en
{"A": "Patents", "B": "Copyrights", "C": "Trade mark", "D": "Industrial design"}
A
A new way to process milk so that the saturated fats are lowered in butter it is covered under:
en
{"A": "a robot", "B": "a real person", "C": "a car", "D": "a computer"}
B
According to Indian Patent Act 1970, a patent can be filed by
en
{"A": "make the invention", "B": "commercialise the invention", "C": "publish the results of tests using the invention", "D": "keep others from copying her invention"}
D
A patent gives the owner the right to:
en
{"A": "Originality, novelty, utility", "B": "Originality, utility, inventive step", "C": "Novelty, utility, inventive step", "D": "Novelty, originality, enforceability"}
C
The patentability criteria as under TRIPS consists of
en
{"A": "international application", "B": "convention application", "C": "exclusive licence", "D": "international application"}
B
...... means an application for a patent made by virtue of Section 135;
en
{"A": "Product laws", "B": "Property laws", "C": "Personal laws", "D": "Criminal laws"}
A
.......... grants exclusivity for products that come out of creative labour.
en
{"A": "copyright", "B": "patents", "C": "registered designs", "D": "Trademarks"}
C
What protects the intellectual property created by designers?
en
{"A": "section 6", "B": "section 9", "C": "section 10", "D": "section 3 and 4"}
D
Section ____ provides the inventions which are not patentable under the
en
{"A": "genetic material of animal", "B": "human genetic material", "C": "softwares with Genetic algorithms", "D": "designs"}
A
What is included in biological resources?
en
{"A": "1970", "B": "2000", "C": "1998", "D": "1995"}
B
Indian Design Act was enacted in the year
en
{"A": "Biodiversity", "B": "Digital world", "C": "Internet", "D": "Product"}
A
What is the challenge faced by Intellectual Property?
en
{"A": "Dependent claims", "B": "Independent claims", "C": "Mutually dependent claims", "D": "verbatim claim"}
B
_____________can be interpreted stand-alone without associating with any other claims.
en
{"A": "Preamble, transitional phrase, body", "B": "Preamble, body, transitional phrase", "C": "transitional phrase, body, preamble", "D": "transitional phrase, preamble ,body"}
A
Which one is the correct format for the claims part?
en
{"A": "always a granted patent", "B": "sometimes a granted patent", "C": "always a patent application", "D": "Revoked application"}
C
A PCT publication is
en
{"A": "Company", "B": "Producers", "C": "Retailers", "D": "Shopkeepers"}
B
Who can register Geographical Indication?
en
{"A": "The District Court only", "B": "The High Court only", "C": "IPAB only", "D": "The District court/High Court/IPAB"}
D
The sequence of events between Tg(Time of Grant) and Te (Time of Expiry) happens at
en
{"A": "NOC", "B": "NDA", "C": "MoU", "D": "proof of right"}
D
Applicant has to obtain a ___ to file the application from the inventor
en
{"A": "Only business", "B": "Only academics", "C": "trade, industry and commerce", "D": "Only Industry"}
C
IPR is related to
en
{"A": "photo copies of proofs", "B": "photo copies of designs", "C": "Provisional / Complete Specification", "D": "photo copies of documents"}
C
A patent application shall be filed on Form-1 alongside____, with the prescribed fee
en
{"A": "undefined", "B": "not available", "C": "mutually unsupportive", "D": "mutually supportive"}
D
On genetic resources intellectual property protection and the conservation of biodiversity should be __________
en
{"A": "MoU", "B": "NDA", "C": "NOC", "D": "Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)"}
D
In 1970 several inventors decided to simplify the process for protecting patents worldwide by creating the .
en
{"A": "No value", "B": "Increasing value", "C": "decreasing value", "D": "depreciating value"}
B
what is advantage of large volumes of data accumulated within companies?
en
{"A": "Inventions relating to atomic energy not patentable", "B": "mathematical or business method or a computer programme per se or algorithms; not patentable", "C": "seeds, varieties and species and essentially biological processes for production or propagation of plants and animals not patentable", "D": "invention which in effect, is traditional knowledge or which is an aggregation or duplication of known properties of traditionally known component or components are patentable"}
D
Identify the wrong statement
en
{"A": "under a confidential obligation", "B": "under a professional obligation", "C": "under a professional obligation", "D": "under a personal obligation"}
A
Assertion: A doctor cannot pass the details regarding one patient to other patient.
en
{"A": "The ability to profit from their invention.", "B": "The ability to prevent others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling the invention.", "C": "The ability to prevent others from learning the secrets of the invention.", "D": "All of the above."}
B
A patent gives an inventor the exclusive right to which of the following?
en
{"A": "In exchange for inventing something useful, society gives the inventor the exclusive right to their invention for a limited time.", "B": "The product of mental labor should be the property of its creator.", "C": "Government negotiates with inventors to determine the value of an invention.", "D": "None of the above."}
A
The “bargain” theory, a theoretical justification for patents, argues which of the following?
en
{"A": "By protecting the property rights of inventors, the wellsprings of creation do not dry up for lack of incentive.", "B": "Patent rights ensure equal treatment for all.", "C": "From each according to their ability, to each according to their need.", "D": "The public interest is served by disclosing the details of the invention and thereby promoting the progress of the nation."}
A D
Which two public policy goals are served by granting patent rights?
en
{"A": "To get a patent, inventors must disclose the secrets of their inventions.", "B": "Patents represent the world’s greatest library of technical knowledge.", "C": "Innovators keep up with technical trends by reading other inventors’ patents.", "D": "All of the above."}
D
Through which of the following means do patents also promote knowledge sharing?
en
{"A": "Inventions that were not truly novel.", "B": "The Crown’s favored inventors.", "C": "Trade in staples such as salt or soap rather than for actual inventions.", "D": "Inventions that helped industrialists monopolize whole industries."}
C
The Statute of Monopolies in 1624 ended the practice of granting patents for which of the following?
en
{"A": "Exorbitantly high patent fees.", "B": "Limited or no disclosure of the details of the invention.", "C": "No examination for patent validity.", "D": "All of the above."}
D
Which of the following practices were common in early patent systems?
en
{"A": "Innovation was limited to a small sector of the population.", "B": "Biased toward incumbent industries, early patent systems did not encourage disruptive change.", "C": "Early patent systems reinforced the wealth of elites, not the productive capacity of society.", "D": "All of the above."}
D
Early patent systems tended to have which of the following effects on the overall economy?
en
{"A": "To defend America’s newly won independence.", "B": "To rapidly stimulate the growth of domestic industry.", "C": "To create advanced new weapons for America’s young army.", "D": "None of the above."}
B
The Founding Fathers created the U.S. patent system with which overarching goal in mind?
en
{"A": "Their abundant natural resources.", "B": "Their large stock of imported goods and machinery.", "C": "Rich agricultural lands.", "D": "An enterprising population with a “universal ambition to go forward”"}
D
The U.S. patent system was designed to tap the creative and productive potential of which of the following?
en
{"A": "It was affordable by the common person.", "B": "It had an examination system to determine patent validity.", "C": "Patentees were required to make or sell products based on their inventions.", "D": "It had simplified application procedures.", "E": "It required full disclosure of the details of the invention.", "F": "It allowed for the sale and licensing of patent rights."}
C
Which of the following was NOT a unique feature of the U.S. patent system?
en
{"A": "Novelty, non-obviousness, and utility determine patent validity, not the identity or business model of the inventor.", "B": "Patents are freely transferable and tradable property rights.", "C": "You can’t infringe a patent if you honestly don’t know that it exists.", "D": "Patent holders are not required to make or sell products based on their inventions."}
C
Which of the following is NOT true of the U.S. patent system?
en
{"A": "It is twice what it used to be.", "B": "It is about the same as it used to be.", "C": "It is less than half what it used to be."}
C
Compared with the Industrial Revolution, what is the overall patent litigation rate today?
en
{"A": "Slow innovation and R&D.", "B": "Settle disputed rights to new technology so commercialization can proceed.", "C": "Block others from designing around patents."}
B
Historically speaking, patent litigation has served to which of the following?
en
{"A": "13 years.", "B": "75 years.", "C": "40 years.", "D": "100 years."}
A
How many years after the first patent law was signed in 1790 did it take for the United States to surpass Britain in the number of new inventions being patented?
en
{"A": "A sharp increase in patent litigation.", "B": "New technological advances leading to the birth of new industries.", "C": "A Supreme Court decision on a major patent case.", "D": "None of the above."}
B
Historically, in the United States, there have been major surges in new patent filings after which of the following?
en
{"A": "20 percent.", "B": "40 percent.", "C": "67 percent."}
C
What percentage of entrepreneurs say that patents are vital to securing venture funding?
en
{"A": "Economic growth.", "B": "Military superiority.", "C": "Bringing freedom to oppressed elsewhere in the world.", "D": "Technological progress."}
D
The United States was the only nation to define its greatness in its capacity for which of the following?
en
{"A": "A mouse ray gun.", "B": "Exploding mouse glue.", "C": "A new way to catch mice using sound waves.", "D": "A mouse-destroying missile."}
A
A patentable invention is a new, novel, and non-obvious machine, manufacture, process, or composition of matter. Which of the four types of inventions categories do these hypothetical mousetrap inventions represent?
en
{"A": "A machine.", "B": "A means to an end.", "C": "A composition of matter.", "D": "A manufacture."}
A
All patentable inventions fall into two broad categories—they are products or processes. Which category do the following fall into?
en
{"A": "Yes, so long as you outline the idea in detail.", "B": "No, you can’t patent a mere idea."}
B
Can an idea for a better mousetrap be patented?
en
{"A": "Electricity.", "B": "A random number generator.", "C": "A device that uses electricity to communicate."}
A
Which of the following is NOT patentable?