Each member country of the TRIPS agreement must include in its domestic laws intellectual property rights.​

Omni Corporation provides cell phones, laptops, and tablets for its employees to use “in the ordinary course of its business.” Omni intercepts the employees’ business communications made on these devices. This is​

James buys a copy of the book Downpour. Later, after reading the book, James sells it to his sister. Under the first sale doctrine, James’s sale of the book is​

BeFriends Corporation uses the trademark of Community Life Inc., a social media site, as a meta tag without Community Life’s permission. This may be permissible​

According to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, a foreign state that waived its immunity by implication is subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S. courts.

KO Marketing Company, a U.S. firm, signs a contract with Librador Corporacion, a Chilean firm, to give Librador the right to use Innovative’s animation techniques and characters in product promotions. This is​

Pricing information is not a trade secret.​

Much of the material on the Internet, including software and database information, is not copyrighted.​

College Copy Shop (CCS) compiles, copies, and sells reading materials to students. The compilations are prepared on the instructions of professors, who indicate which parts of which publications should be included for their students. The copied materials include texts published by Deep Topics, Inc. CCS does not obtain the permission of Deep Topics, or any of the other original publishers of the copied materials, and does not pay royalties on the sales of the compilations. Deep Topics and others file a suit against CCS, alleging infringement of their intellectual property rights. Which type of intellectual property is involved in this situation? What is CCS’s likely defense? How is a court most likely to rule? Explain.​

Global Reach Corporation uses invisible files created on the computers, smartphones, and other mobile devices of visitors to its Web sites to track the users’ browsing activities. These files are​