Which of the Following Are Defenses to Patent-Infringement Claims

question 21

Multiple Choice

Which of the following are defenses to patent-infringement claims?

• A) noninfringement, invalidity of the patent, misuse of the patent, and innocent infringement
• B) noninfringement, invalidity of the patent, fair use, and innocent infringement
• C) noninfringement, fair use, misuse of the patent, and innocent infringement
• D) Fair use, misuse of the patent, innocent infringement, and illegality of the patent

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Definitions:

Productivity

A measure of the efficiency of production, often defined as the output per unit of input.

Abundance

The great or plentiful amount of something in a particular environment, often used in ecology to describe the number of individuals of a particular species within a given area.

Organismic Model

Cooperative view of community, described by Clements, in which a community goes through certain stages of development (succession), like the embryonic stages of an organism, and eventually reaches an adult state (climax community).

Individualistic Model

Independent view of community, described by Gleason, in which biological interactions are less important in the production of communities than are environmental gradients (such as climate and soil) or even chance. Compare with organismic model.