These questions are from the textbook The Principle of Canadian Business Law.

TRUE/FALSE.

21) In Canada, it is possible to get software patent to protect computer programs.21) ______

22) The Integrated Circuit Topography Act confers on the owner of a registered topography,22) ______

exclusive rights to the idea or process embodied in the topography or integrated circuit.

23) Protection for an industrial design is available for up to 20 years.23) ______

24) The courts will only protect business confidential information in cases where the24) ______

business has already acquired, patent, trademark or industrial design protection .

25) Remedies for breach of trade secret can be obtained against all persons who have25) ______

received and utilized the confidential information.

26) The period of protection afforded for a trade secret is 25 years. 26) ______

27) The unauthorized use of a computer may constitute an offence under the Criminal Code. 27) ______

28) Under the Integrated Circuit Topography Act, any act of reproduction of a protected28) ______

integrated circuit topography for whatsoever purpose, will constitute an infringement of

the right guaranteed to the owner of the topography.

29) Under the Integrated Circuit topography Act, an application to register a topography29) ______

cannot be filed later than one year after the topography has been used commercially.

30) Unless the name of the owner of a design right is placed on an article incorporating a30) ______

registered industrial design, protection for the design will be lost.

31) For the purposes of copyright law, a computer program is considered to be a literary31) ______

work.

32) The owner of a copyright in computer software can stop other persons from using the32) ______

idea underlying the software to create-a computer program.

33) Under the Patent Act, computer related inventions do no need to meet the test of novelty33) ______

in order to be patented.

34) Under the Integrated Circuits Topography Act, a topography created by an employee in34) ______

the course of the employment belongs to both the employer and employee.

35) Confidential information will be protected only in cases where there is a written contract or 35) ______

relationship involving a fiduciary duty.

36) Misuse of confidential information can only give rise to civil liability. 36) ______

37) An employee who memorizes an employer's secret idea for a new manufacturing37) ______

process and subsequently utilizes that idea for his own purposes, commits the offence of

theft under Section 322 (1) of the Criminal Code.

38) An employee who steals a compact disk containing the plans for a new piece of38) ______

equipment from her employer commits theft as well as the tort of conversion.

39) It is not possible to commit a tort on the internet.39) ______

40) All new and ingenious inventions are patentable.