Question 1

The Paris Convention:

	a.	Is the seminal patent protection treaty.
	b.	Requires national treatment for foreign trademark and patent applications from signatory countries.
	c.	Provides a trademark holder in any signatory country a twelve-month period of priority within which to make similar applications in signatory countries.
	d.	A, B, and C.

Question 2

In the Civil Rights Act of 1991, Congress extended Title VII to:

I.	U.S. firms operating outside the United States under the control of a U.S. entity.
II.	U.S. firms operating outside the United States except where compliance with Title VII would violate the local law of the country where the firm is located.
III.	Foreign firms operating abroad that employ U.S. citizens.

	a.	I only.
	b.	I and II.
	c.	I and III.
	d.	II and III.

Question 4

Under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, a federal court would not have jurisdiction over a foreign nation unless:

	a.	The foreign nation's acts were diplomatic in nature.
	b.	Authority has been granted for the court to hear the case by the president of the United States.
	c.	The foreign government's actions constitute a commercial activity.
	d.	The foreign government committed an act of state.

Question 5

Under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, federal courts in the U.S. cannot hear which of the following cases:

	a.	The foreign government breached a contract with the U.S. firm for the sale of goods.
	b.	A dispute over the amount of compensation paid by a foreign government to a U.S. investor when the investor's real estate was taken to build a national airport.
	c.	The foreign government is being sued for money damages sought as a result of personal injury or death caused by the foreign government or its agents in the United States.
	d.	All of the above are exceptions.

Question 6

In the U.S., an employer may engage in employee discrimination if it is "reasonably necessary to the normal operation of the particular business or enterprise," a defense known as the:

	a.	bona fide occupational qualification defense.
	b.	occupational qualification defense.
	c.	occupational exception defense.
	d.	bona fide exception defense.

Question 7

Common restrictions imposed on the use of technology include geographic limitations on the licensee's manufacturing and/or marketing activities. These types of restrictions are also known as:

	a.	Field of use limitations.
	b.	Operating limitations.
	c.	Non-technical limitations.
	d.	Implied effort of cooperation limitations.

Question 8

Many technology owners have avoided introducing technology or technological products into Brazil because:

	a.	Spies and foreign agents have been stealing the technology and selling it to the communist countries.
	b.	The market has been too weak to support these high-tech products.
	c.	Brazilian taxes on the introduction of technology into the country have been prohibitively high.
	d.	Technology transfer agreements have been interpreted under Brazilian law so that the original owner loses many rights in the technology.

Question 9

TRIPS requires every member of the World Trade Organization to:

Question 10

The Chinese government practices a form of institutional discrimination through the Hukou, which is a mechanism for determining social entitlements based on:

	a.	gender.
	b.	age.
	c.	occupation.
	d.	place of residence.

	a.	Abide by the Paris Convention.
	b.	Abide by the Berne Convention.
	c.	Apply national treatment to foreign owners of intellectual property rights.
	d.	Provide patent protection for processes.
	e.	All of the above.

Question 10

The Chinese government practices a form of institutional discrimination through the Hukou, which is a mechanism for determining social entitlements based on:

	a.	gender.
	b.	age.
	c.	occupation.
	d.	place of residence.