NPTEL Intellectual Property Week 5 Assignment Answers 2025
1. _____________ marks are unconventional as they were not in The Trade and Merchandise Marks Act, 1958.
- Smell
- Sound
- Color
- Shape
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2. A Trade Mark should
- be non-distinctive
- be capable of Graphical Representation
- have no acquired meaning
- all of the above
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3. ICANN stands for:
- International Corporation for Associated Names and Numbers
- International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
- Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
- Internet Cooperation for Assigned Names and Numbers
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4. The Trade Marks Act, 1999 changed the period of protection of trademarks from ___________ to 10 years.
- 9 years
- 6 years
- 8 years
- None of the above
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5. Statement 1: A mark cannot be protected if it is functional in nature.
Statement 2: A trademark can be renewed indefinitely.
- Statement 1 is True, Statement 2 is False
- Statement 1 is False, Statement 2 is True
- Both Statement 1 and 2 are True
- Both Statement 1 and 2 are False
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6. Statement 1: The registration of a trademark gives the owner of the mark the exclusive right over the goods and services of their brand.
Statement 2: The Trade And Merchandise Marks Act, 1958 had been in operation for close to four decades, and the Act was replaced by the 1999 Trade Marks Act to bring Indian law in compliance with the obligations under the World Trade Organisation.
- Statement 1 is True, Statement 2 is False
- Statement 1 is False, Statement 2 is True
- Both Statement 1 and 2 are True
- Both Statement 1 and 2 are False
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7. In India, for the purpose of registration of trademark the goods or services are classified in accordance with-
- NICE Classification
- Locarno classification
- Vienna Classification
- All of these
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8. The limits on registration of shapes of a mark are:
- Shapes that result from the nature of goods themselves
- Shapes that are necessary to obtain technical results
- Shapes that represent the brand of the goods
- Shapes that give substantial value to goods
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9. Some of the International Agreements on trademark include:
- Kyoto Protocol, 1997
- Paris Convention, 1883
- Montreal Protocol, 1987
- Madrid Agreement, 1891
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10. The fundamentals of a good mark include:
- laudatory or descriptive matters
- appealing or easy to recollect
- invented or coined word
- geographical names
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