School: Defense Acquisition University (DAU), Course: CLE 068.

Instructions : From the following objective questions below, pick/choose the right answer from the options provided.

Effective IP management results in the following:

- [ ] Managing the expense of IP acquisition

- [ ] Enabling competition for future contracting actions

- [ ] Providing for the future use of all data for commercial ends

- [ ] Providing for the future use of all data for Government

Patents provide a non-exclusive right to use, manufacture and distribute an idea for commercial and military applications.

- [ ] True

- [ ] False

As part of verification, the Government tries to confirm that the contractor does indeed have the rights they are claiming to restricted data. This criterion is called ?compliance.?

- [ ] True

- [ ] False

When contractors deliver data to the Government, they are required to indicate the restrictions to the data. This indication is called _____. ?

-[ ] Embossing

-[ ] Data marking

-[ ] Provisional marking

-[ ] Exception list

-[ ] Highlighting

According to the DFARS, DoD's acquisition policy for non-commercial software is to acquire :

- [ ] Government Purpose Rights

- [ ] Only the computer software, documentation and the data rights necessary to satisfy agency needs

- [ ] Unlimited Rights

- [ ] Restricted Rights

When can a large business obtain SBIR data rights?

- [ ] The large contractor can never obtain SBIR data rights

- [ ] The large contractor purchases the SBIR data rights from the Government agency that funded the SBIR effort

- [ ] It purchases a small business that possesses SBIR rights

- [ ] A small division of the large business competes for and wins a SBIR contract

The delivery of Form, Fit and Function (FFF) and Operations, Maintenance, Installation and Training (OMIT) is with ?Unlimited Rights,? as a matter of policy but is not directed by law.

- [ ] True

- [ ] False

When the Government takes delivery of noncommercial technical data provided with Unlimited Rights, the Government can sell that technical data.

- [ ] True

- [ ] False

The FAR and DFARS:

- [ ] Do not provide definitions of commercial technical data and computer software.

- [ ] Do not differentiate between noncommercial and commercial technical data and software.

- [ ] Permit ?tailoring? of the definitions of commercial technical data and computer software.

- [ ] Define commercial technical data and computer software.

Intellectual Property consists of the properties of the mind (intellect), whether they are ever documented or not.

- [ ] True

- [ ] False

Commercial technical data and commercial software:

- [ ] Are provided to the Government with additional rights.

- [ ] Must be marked ?proprietary? to have protection.

- [ ] Must be available to consumers to qualify as commercial.

- [ ] Are offered for sale on the commercial market.

A Government contractor develops a new process for manufacturing defense materiel. The contractor elects to protect this information as a Trade Secret. Which of the following is true?

- [ ] As the process was documented in a laboratory notebook, the process is protected by the copyright laws

- [ ] The Government has Government Purpose Rights to the invention, as the property was developed in an IR&D program, chargeable as an authorized overhead expense to Government contracts

- [ ] The contractor must take positive action to preclude the public disclosure of this information

- [ ] As this process was patentable, patent law protects the contractor, even if they do not file for a patent

Open systems architecture, at a minimum, requires the Government to have Government Purpose or Unlimited rights to:

- [ ] All technical data and software

- [ ] Test data

- [ ] External interfaces

- [ ] Interfaces down to the component level

- [ ] Software code listings

- [ ] Manufacturing processes

Which of the following is not considered in determining the IP needs of the Government?

- [ ] Provision for future needs

- [ ] Sustainment by the Government and/or third party contractors

- [ ] Support for sole source procurement actions

- [ ] Cost control

- [ ] Enabling competition in future stages of the program

When contracting for competitive technology development efforts, a ?best practice? is for the project leader to:

- [ ] Include an option to purchase ?Government Purpose Rights? for noncommercial technical data and computer software that is delivered with ?Limited? or ?Restricted? rights.

- [ ] Include an option to purchase ?Unlimited Rights? for noncommercial technical data and computer software that is delivered with ?Limited? or ?Restricted? rights.

- [ ] Insist on ?Government Purpose Rights? for all noncommercial technical data and computer software to enable future competition.

- [ ] Leave the purchase of ?Government Purpose Rights? for noncommercial technical data and computer software that is delivered with ?Limited? or ?Restricted? rights to the program manager for the Program of Record.