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Patent Law Week 01 Quiz Answers

Quiz 1: Patent Document

Q1. Which of the following is not on the front page of a patent?

• The filing date
• The patent serial #
• Abstract
• Claims

Quiz 2: Life of a Patent

Q1. True or False: The life of a patent is 20 years from the date the patent is issued.

• True
• False

Quiz 3: Patent Law

Q1. Which of the following is the best approximation of the total cost of attaining a patent?

• $500
• $5,000
• $50,000
• $500,000

Q2. True or False: All patent applications take approximately the same amount of time to be prosecuted (examined) and they are done so in the order they are submitted.

• True
• False

Q3. Approximately what percentage of patents are licensed for use/production?

• 1%
• 5%
• 15%
• 50%

Q4. True or False: The distribution of patent value is roughly in line with a traditional bell curve, with very few patents having no value, most patents having some value, and very few patents having extremely high value.

• True
• False

Q5. Which of the following is a possible outcome of a patent litigation?

• Transfer of a patent to the “true” inventor
• Invalidation of a patent
• Court-ordered revenue share of the proceeds from a patent

Patent Law Week 02 Quiz Answers

Quiz 1: Disclosure Requirement

Q1. What are the two subparts of the patent disclosure requirement?

• Enablement and written description
• Novelty and nonobviousness
• Plausibility and reliability

Quiz 2: Utility

Q1. Which of the following would not meet the utility requirement?

• A selfie-stick
• A fidget spinner
• A utility belt
• An alchemy set

Quiz 3: Patent Law

Q1. What is the patent enablement requirement?

• The requirement that only inventions that actually work/are plausible may be patented.
• The requirement that patent applicants must enable the government to correctly manufacture the invention.
• The requirement that the description of the invention must be sufficient to teach a PHOSITA how to make and use the invention.

Q2. True or False: The novelty requirement requires that an invention not be identically described in a prior patent application.

• True
• False

Q3. Which of the following is not a standard for judging whether an invention is “obvious?”

• “the work of a simple mechanic”
• “widely known in other fields”
• “prompted by new technology”
• “previously occuring in nature”

Q4. Which of the following would pass the subject matter requirement of patentability?

• A new accounting method for better tracking the income taxes a person must pay.
• DNA from a newly discovered species of giraffes
• An algorithm for predicting what other types of music a person may enjoy listening to
• A process for manufacturing steel items twice as fast as was possible before.

Q5. True or False: The Inventorship requirement requires that, even if a patent is eventually transferred to a company, group, or other organization, at the initial granting of a patent, a single inventor must be identified.

• True
• False

Patent Law Week 03 Quiz Answers

Q1. What do patent claims do?

• Indicate to a PHOSITA how to manufacture the invention or process
• State how the invention meets each of the patentability requirements
• Define the scope of what is covered by the patent

Q2. True or False: The PHOSITA is a hypothetical person that is standard across all types of inventions

• True
• False

Q3. True or False: If any of the claims in a patent application are denied, the entire patent application is denied.

• True
• False

Q4. True or False: To properly interpret patent claims, all elements of a given claim must be considered together in their entirety so the entire invention can be evaluated as a whole.

• True
• False

Q5. True or False: When interpreting a patent claim with a word that is not explicitly defined in the patent document, the word will be assumed to mean the dictionary definition of that word.

• True
• False

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