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What are two incentives for obtaining a copyright registration?

The United States is currently a ___________ country. 

Product design can serve as protectable trade dress provided it is not ______________________ and provided that it has acquired ________________________________. (fill in the blanks) 

List two activities by the inventor that can constitute a statutory bar to a patent. _______________________________________________________________________. (fill in the blank)

Rewarding the creator is the primary objective of the Utilitarian/Economic Incentive Theory that justifies intellectual property protection.

A work authored under the current Copyright Act _________ contain a copyright notice when it is published in order to maintain copyright rights.

A limited disclosure of a trade secret to a third party without an obligation of confidentiality prevents someone from prevailing on a trade secret claim because the trade secret owner did not take reasonable steps to protect the trade secret.

Laws of nature, natural phenomena, and abstract ideas _______ be patented by the person who discover them.

The interactive process between the United States Patent & Trademark Office and a patent applicant by which someone obtains a patent from the Patent Office after filing a patent application is known as patent ______________________. (fill in the blank) 

An inventor’s activities more than ________ year/years prior to the filing date of a patent application will statutorily bar (i.e., prevent) the inventor from being allowed to obtain a patent. (fill in the blank)