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What is the Federal Trade Commission Act?
The Act, signed into law by Woodrow Wilson in 1914, outlaws unfair methods of competition and outlaws unfair acts or practices that affect commerce.
What is the Uniform Commercial Code?
one of a number of Uniform Acts that have been established as law with the goal of harmonizing the laws of sales and other commercial transactions
What is the Patent Act of the U.S.?
Under United States law, a patent is a right granted to the inventor of a process, machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter, that is new, useful, and non-obvious
What is collusion?
Collusion is a secret cooperation or deceitful agreement in order to deceive others, although not necessarily illegal, as a conspiracy.
What is the Family and Medical Leave Act?
The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 is a United States labor law requiring covered employers to provide employees with job-protected and unpaid leave for qualified medical and family reasons
What are antitrust laws?
United States Antitrust law is a collection of federal and state government laws that regulates the conduct and organization of business corporations, generally to promote fair competition for the benefit of consumers.
What is a breach of warranty?
the failure of a seller to fulfill the terms of a promise
What is the Patent Act of the U.S.?
The Lanham Act (also known as the Trademark Act of 1946) is the federal statute that governs trademarks, service marks, and unfair competition
What is an oligopoly?
An oligopoly is a market form wherein a market or industry is dominated by a small number of large sellers
What is the Fair Labor Standards Act?
The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 29 U.S.C. § 203 is a United States labor law that creates the right to a minimum wage, and "time-and-a-half" overtime pay when people work over forty hours a week.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 was a United States antitrust law that regulates competition among enterprises, which was passed by Congress under the presidency of Benjamin Harrison
What is a breach of fiduciary duty?
. A fiduciary duty is an obligation to act in the best interest of another party and to not do that means you breach it
What is the Copyright Law?
Copyright is a form of intellectual property that grants the creator of an original creative work an exclusive legal right to determine whether and under what conditions this original work may be copied and used by others, usually for a limited term of years
What is price fixing?
the maintaining of prices at a certain level by agreement between competing sellers.
What is the Social Security Act?
What is the Clayton Act?
The Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914, was a part of United States antitrust law with the goal of adding further substance to the U.S. antitrust law regime; the Clayton Act sought to prevent anticompetitive practices in their incipiency
What is an anticipatory breach?
Anticipatory repudiation, also called an anticipatory breach, is a term in the law of contracts that describes a declaration by the promising party to a contract that he or she does not intend to live up to his or her obligations under the contract.
What is the difference between a patent and a trademark?
Patents prevent others from making or selling an invention, but trademarks protect the words, phrases, symbols, logos, or other devices used to identify the source of goods or services from usage by other competitors.
What is a group boycott?
a group boycott is a type of secondary boycott in which two or more competitors in a relevant market refuse to conduct business with a firm unless the firm agrees to cease doing business with an actual or potential competitor of the firms conducting the boycott.
What is the Occupational Safety and Health Act?
The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 is a US labor law governing the federal law of occupational health and safety in the private sector and federal government in the United States.
What is the Federal Trade Commission?
Its principal mission is the promotion of consumer protection and the elimination and prevention of anticompetitive business practices, such as coercive monopoly.
What is breach of rental agreement?
Rent is a an agreed sum paid at fixed intervals by a tenant to the landlord for possession and use of property and to breach it means you did not pay
What is intellectual property?
Intellectual property is a category of property that includes intangible creations of the human intellect. Intellectual property encompasses two types of rights: industrial property rights and copyright.
What is a monopoly?
the exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service.
What is the Fair Labor Standards Act?
The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 29 U.S.C. § 203 is a United States labor law that creates the right to a minimum wage, and "time-and-a-half" overtime pay when people work over forty hours a week