Aff + Neg
The three parts on a kritik
What are Link, Impact, Alternative
The stock issues that prove that there are bad things happening
What is Significance or Harms
The three topic areas
What are copyrights, patents, and trademarks
What is conditionality?
The action that the Aff proposes
What is the plan?
A modified form of liberalism tending to favor free-market capitalism.
What is neoliberalism?
The stock issue that describes the status quo, in order to prove that the problems in the squo are unique to the aff
What is Inherency
This 2006 court decision is overruled by our starter pack aff
What is eBay v. MercExchange?
What is an interpretation?
An aff response to the K that argues the alt can be combined with the aff
What is a permutation?
This stock issue is the affirmative burden to prove the plan will work
What is Solvency
A type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time
What is a patent?
The part of a theory shell that argues the other team didn't meet the interpretation.
What is the violation?
These are the three stock issues the affirmative always presents in their case.
What are inherency, harms, solvency
The position that actions are moral if they serve the greatest good for the greatest amount of people
What is utilitarianism
This issue is related to the the relevance of the resolution to the arguments
What is topicality?
The exact full text of the resolution
What is "Resolved: The United States federal government should significantly strengthen its protection of domestic intellectual property rights in copyrights, patents, and/or trademarks."
The idea that the affirmative can “assume" that their plan will be passed
The 2NR should typically goes for as many arguments as possible to overburden the affirmative (True or False)
What is False
The authors of "Decolonization is not a metaphor," our set col alt
Who are Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang
All 5 stock issues
What are Significance, Harms, Inherency, Topicality, Solvency
A sign capable of distinguishing the goods or services of one enterprise from those of other enterprises
What is a trademark?
Theory is a reason to reject... ___