Your Responsibility for Confidential and Intellectual Property

The video tutorial covers the importance of protecting intellectual property (IP) and maintaining confidentiality. It explains the legal and ethical responsibilities of handling sensitive information, including trade secrets, patents, copyrights, and trademarks. The tutorial also discusses the concept of fair use and the ethical gathering of competitive information, emphasizing the need to respect others' confidential data while conducting business research.

What is the primary responsibility of an employee regarding a company's intellectual property?

• To ignore confidentiality agreements

• To sell it to competitors

• To protect it and use it responsibly

• To share it with all employees

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a patent?

• It is granted by the government

• It prevents others from making the invention

• It allows public use of the invention

• It grants exclusive rights to an inventor

What does fair use allow?

• Copying entire works for personal use

• Selling copyrighted material without permission

• Use of copyrighted work for criticism and teaching

• Unlimited use of copyrighted material

What is a trademark primarily used for?

• To protect a company's inventions

• To identify and distinguish goods of a manufacturer

• To share a company's trade secrets

• To allow free use of a company's logo

How should competitive information be gathered?

• By respecting the confidentiality of others

• Through deceitful and dishonest means

• By sharing confidential information with competitors

• By hacking into competitors' systems