Non-Corporate Business Forms
The easiest business form to create.
What is a sole Proprietorship?
The main downside to corporations.
The two broad categories of securities.
What are stocks and bonds?
An agreement between two or more nations.
What is a treaty?
The intellectual property that covers things such as logos and brand names.
What is trademark?
The only type of business form to file articles of organization.
What is a Limited Liability Company?
The document corporations must fill and file with the state.
What are the articles of incorporation?
The administrative agency that oversees the sale of securities.
What is the Securities Exchange Commission?
The taking of land by a government without just compensation.
What is a patent?
Liability is shared by two or more parties to a lawsuit.
What is Joint and Several Liability?
A corporation that is owned by a citizen and is traded on the stock market.
What is a publicly held corporation?
The illegal use of information not known to the public to make investing decisions.
What is insider trading?
The norm that countries will enforce judgments from other countries when asked.
What is the principle of comity?
The only type of IP with renewable expiration periods.
What is Trademark?
The process in which the Partnership’s or corporation'ss assets are collected, liquidated and distributed, and liabilities are discharged.
What is Winding up?
This is the only level of corporate structure with limited liability.
What are the shareholders?
The written document required by securities laws when a security is being sold.
What is a Prospectus?
The rule that the united states does not have jurisdiction over other countries.
What is sovereign immunity?
The distinctive look of a company
What is Trade Dress?
These are the three types of franchises.
What are chain-style, distributorship, and manufacturing agreements?
The removal of limited liability due to the commingling of personal and corporate assets.
What is Piercing the Corporate Veil?
A fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to investors from new capital paid to the fraudsters rather than from a legitimate investment.
What is a ponzi scheme?
The clause in a contract that decides what law will be applied in an international contract.
What is choice of law clause?
This type of Intellectual Property receives protection without needing to file as long as it was published in a public forum, but you have the option to do so to be safe.
What is copyright?