The Legal Life of a Patent Is

question 36

Multiple Choice

The legal life of a patent is:

• A)Forty years.
• B)Twenty years.
• C)Life of the inventor plus fifty years.
• D)Indefinite.

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Definitions:

UCS

An acronym for "Unconditioned Stimulus," a stimulus that naturally and automatically triggers a response without prior learning.

CS

Common shorthand for "conditioned stimulus," a term from classical conditioning in psychology that refers to a previously neutral stimulus that, after association with an unconditioned stimulus, comes to trigger a conditioned response.

UCR

Unconditioned Response, an automatic response to a stimulus that does not need to be learned.

CR

In conditioning, this stands for conditioned response, which is a learned response to a previously neutral stimulus that has become associated with an unconditioned stimulus.