Four Options - 15

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1. Name the world's first copyright legislation, that came into force three hundred years ago
on April 10th, 1710.

a. Bill of Rights b. Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen c. Statute of
Anne d. Claim of Right

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2. A sound was trademarked for the first time in India on August 18th, 2008, who registered
it?

a. "Yahoo! Yodel" - Yahoo! Inc. b. "Kingfisher" - United Breweries Ltd. c. "Nirma

Washing Powder" - Nirma Ltd.
d. "Titan Watches" - Titan Industries Ltd.

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3. Recently, clinics, pharmacies, diagnostic centres and other medical services providers are
adopting Green Cross symbol in place of Red Cross symbol. Why?

Because,

a. Johnson & Johnson which has registered the red cross symbol as a trademark for its
"medicinal and surgical plasters" in 1905 in USA, has sued for trademark infringement.

b. Indian Medical Association adopted the new symbol to have an more inclusive and
positive symbol.

c. Indian Red Cross Society sent cease and desist notices since the red cross
symbol is allowed only for specific uses by Geneva Conventions.

d. Ministry of Health issued a directive to change the symbol, to distinguish between

commercial and charitable usages.

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4. For the first time in Indian history, a political party licensed a piece of music for election
campaign purposes from the record label -- T-Series. Name the licensee and the licensed
work.

a. Mere Desh ki Dharti -- Upkar b. Aye Mere Watan ke Logo c. Vande Mataram d. Jai
Ho! -- Slumdog Millionaire

I suggest that this be made a starred question, and more weightage if they write "Indian
National Congress" or at least "Congress" alongwith marking the choice "d."

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5. What is the copyright term of a literary work in India?

a. 60 years after the death of the author. b. 70 years from the date of publication.
c. 50 years from the date of registration. d. Copyright does not end, it is perpetual.

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6. Tata Sons Ltd. challenged the existence of a domain name owned by MakeMyTrip.com
before a single member WIPO Arbitration Panel and subsequently won the ownership of the
domain name on August 11th, 2009. Which domain name?

a. tajhotels.com b. swach.com c. oktatabyebye.com d. batatavada.com

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7. Smt. Malini Mallya's appeal to Supreme Court seeking to upheld the impugned judgement
of the trial court which awarded her damages for performance of a ballet dance called
"Yaksha Ranga," a new dance form inspired by Yakshagana, whose creator, a famous
polymath littérateur from Karnataka had bequeathed the copyright to her. The appeal was
dismissed as the performance was by an amateur group comprising of students from am
educational institution performing before a non-paying audience in New Delhi.

Who is the creator of this new dance form, which he describes as "a creative extension of
traditional Yakshagana"?

a. Keremane Shambhu Hegde b. Kota Shivarama Karantha c. U. R. Ananthamurthy

d. Chandrashekhara Kambara

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8. Name the international patent law treaty that seeks to provide a single window access to
International Patent Applications, to avoid multiple patent applications for multiple
registrations in different treaty nations.

a. Universal Patent Application Treaty b. Patent Process Treaty c. Patent Co-operation

Treaty d. Uniform IP Registration Treaty

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9. Pharmaceutical Products that are produced to substitute the expensive "Innovator

Product", manufactured without the licence from the "innovator company" and marketed
after the expiry of the patent of the "Innovator Products", what are they called?

a. Generic Drugs b. Unlicensed Drugs c. Developing Market Drugs d. Cost Effective

Substitute Drugs

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10. Which was the first Genetically Modified Crop allowed to be commercially cultivated in
India?

a. Bt Corn b. Bt Cotton c. Bt Rice d. Bt Jute

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11.In Novartis v. Union of India, Novartis challenged the Section 3(d) of Indian Patents Act,
1970 (As amended in 2005), specifically the words -- "(d) the mere discovery of a new form
of a known substance which does not result in increased efficacy of that substance" as

a. Violative of the Article 14 of the Constitution of India because it was vague by not
defining the meaning of 'efficacy'.

b. It does not comply with Article 27 of TRIPS agreement, which provides for
non-discrimination of inventions as to the place of invention, the field of technology and
whether products are imported or locally produced.

c. None of the above.

d. Both a. & b.

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12. Recently CSIR announced the mapping of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, what is

significant about it?

a. A team of scientists belonging to CSIR collaborated with scientists from NASA in this
project.

b. It used a unique Open Source Drug Discovery Model.

c. It was the costliest project ever undertaken by CSIR.

d. All of the above.

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13. What is Scrabble Entertainment contribution towards prevention of piracy?

a. They launched an application on Facebook to report pirates.

b. They organise street plays to promote awareness against piracy.

c. They specialise in converting traditional cinema halls to receive content through

satellites.

d. All of the above.

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14. Bajaj sought an injunction against the sale of TVS Flame, a new motorcycle model from
TVS Motors because,

a. TVS disparaged Bajaj motorbikes in a TV commercial.

b. Bajaj had problems with the share-holding structure of TVS Motors

c. Bajaj contended TVS has infringed on its twin spark plug ignition patent.

d. None of the Above.

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15. Genetically Modified Crops do not germinate when resown.

a. UN has banned Gene Sterilisation Technology under a six year moratorium.

b. Yes, but it is restricted only to commercial crops.

c. The Protection of Plant Varieties of Farmers Right Act 2001 protects farmers from this
mechanism.

d. GM Crops are legally allowed to control the germination, in India.

A. b is right B. a & c are right C. d is right. D. Except d, all are right.

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Two Options - 10
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1. This project initiated by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Ministry of
Science and Technology and Department of AYUSH, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare;
documents traditional knowledge codified in ancient systems of Indian medicine and is made
accessible to various International Patent Offices including, United States Patent and
Trademark Office (USPTO) & European Patent Office (EPO) to validate the patentability of
patent applications against the Prior Art evidences contained in the repository. Identify the
project.

a. Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) b. Repository of Ancient Knowledge

Shared for Human Advancement (RAKSHA)

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2. Trade Secrets are protected under a legislation in India.

a. True. b. False

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3. This enterprise was started by licensing the technology from a Japanese Company with
an objective of fulfilling a wish of Gandhiji of using a particular product, fully made in India.
Which?

a. HMT Watches, technology from Citizen Watches Co., Japan. b. Ajanta Clocks,
technology from Seiko Watch Corp., Japan

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4. Identify this group of organisations, founded in India and spread across 75 countries
worldwide, which have collaborated to protect the IPR of the innovations created by rural
people and help them monetising them.

a. Honey Bee Network b. Swadeshi Jagaran Manch

Honey Bee Network's affiliated organisation in Karnataka is called "hittala giDa".
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5. In re Bilski, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, has pronounced a
very important decision about,

a. Patentability of Genes b. Patentability of Software and Business Methods.

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6. Creative Commons licence is an alternative to Copyright.

a. True, Creative Commons licences provide an alternative framework of sharing content

without claiming the copyright.

b. False, Creative Commons licenses like the traditional licenses, provide only the
terms under which the content can be used and shared by the licensee.

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7. is a method of controlling access to copyrighted material for a variety of

content in digital formats.

a. Digital Restrictions Management b. Digital Rights Management

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8. Which former super cop is the Chief Co-ordinator of Indian Musical Industry(IMI), an
association of music companies, which is organised to defend music industry against piracy?

a. KPS Gill b. Julio F. Ribeiro

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9. Phonographic Performance Ltd(PPL) & Indian Performing Rights Society (IPRS) are the
only Copyright Collecting Societies which license copyrighted works & collect royalty for
Broadcasts, Telecasts, Public Performance of those works.

a. True b. False

There is one more Copyright Society called Society for Copyright Regulation of Indian
Producers for Film and Television (SCRIPT) but it is not a Collecting Society, i.e., it doesn't
collect royalties.
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10. In Rupendra Kashyap v. Jiwan Publishing House, the High Court of Delhi decided the
copyrightability of Examination Question Papers as,

a. Deemed as Literary Work, hence Copyrightable. b. Cannot be copyrighted as

archiving the question paper is in Public Interest.

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Four Clues - 2
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1. This invention titled "Crystal structure of the 30s ribosome", US Patent number 7079956,
got one of its inventors much acclaim and honour in 2009. Identify the inventor.

Clue 1: Born in 1952, in the ancient temple town -- Chidambaram in Tamil Nadu.

Clue 2: He became a National Science Talent Search Scholar, amongst the ten Higher
Secondary students selected from all over India, after clearing the National Science Talent
Search Examination(which was later remodelled as National Talent Search Examination to
include Humanities).

Clue 3: Refused to join medicine though he was offered admission and joined B.Sc.
(Physics) at Maharaja Sayyajirao University in Baroda.

Clue 4: He started out as a physicist then shifting to Biology but won the most prestigious
award given for Chemistry!

Dr Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, he was amongst the three scientists who got Nobel Prize for
Chemistry, 2009.

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2. This savoury is currently in news with regard to an Intellectual Property Right. Identify
the savoury, Intellectual Property Right and its Grantee.

Clue 1: "A range of rich spices like saffron, refined camphor, cashew nuts, raisins,
cardamom and ghee go into their making."

Clue 2: For the first time in the world has a religious institution been given a monopoly right
over food stuff.

Clue 3: A Public Interest Litigation has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking Suo motu
action against the grant of the said Intellectual Property Right to the religious institution.

Clue 4: The same IPR has been accorded to Mysore Silk, Mysore Betel, Nanjangud
RasabaaLe & Channapatna Toys.

Tirupati Laddoo

Please don't give any more clues other than these 4.