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Intellectual Property
100
A business owned by one person with total liability exposure.
What is a sole proprietorship?
100

The type of partnership where some of the partners' personal liability is limited

What is a Limited Partnership?

100

The protected classes under Title VII

What are:

Race, Gender, Religion, Color, National Origin

100

When an employer adopts a work rule that is neutral on its face but is shown to cause an adverse impact on a protected class.

What is Disparate Impact discrimination?

100
A valid, government-granted protection awarded to inventors that gives the patent-holder the exclusive right to manufacture, use, and sell the invention.
What is patent?
200
Liability exposure in which an owner of a business is not personally liable for all the debts and obligations of the business.
What is limited liability?
200

This type of entity has flow through taxation

What is a sole proprietor or a partneship

200

What body of law protects the aging population

What is the ADEA

200

What law, adopted in 1978 prohibits employment discrimination because of pregnancy, child birth, etc., and was an amendment to Title VII

What is the Pregnancy Discrimination Act?

200
An agreement in which the seller of a business agrees not to begin or operate a similar business within a certain geographic area, or within a specified period of time.
What is an agreement not to compete?
300
The document, filed with the Secretary of State, that creates a corporation.
What is Articles of Incorporation?
300

This type of legal entity requires the most formalities

What is a corporation?

300

What is an employer's responsibility to persons with disabilities?

What is making a reasonable accomodation

300

What are affirmative defenses by an employer for a sexual harassment claim by a co-worker?

What is, the employer had protective measures in place and the Ee failed to take advantage of them, (i.e., Er had a policy against harassment and a procedure for reporting and remediating).

300
Copying another's literary, creative, or artistic works without permission.
What is infringement?
400
Legal exposure such that a person with a claim against a general partnership can elect to sue either all of the partners together or any one of the partners individually.
What is joint and several liability?
400

When does a utility patent elapse?

What is 20 years after filing?

400

What is NOT a protected class under Title VII, but has found ways around that to bring claims for discrimination?

What is sexual orientation?

400

The type of legal entity which requires the fewest legal formalities

What is a Sole Proprietorship?

400
Any word, name, symbol, or device or combination thereof adopted and used by a manufacturer or merchant to identify his goods and distinguish them from goods manufacturered or sold by others.
What is a trademark?
500
A legal and ethical obligation placed upon a director to act diligently and prudently in conducting the affairs of the corporation.
What is duty of care?
500

Bob invents a new widget for a car that automatically inflates a tire to the appropriate pressure while driving.  Bob shows the widget to Sam to get his thoughts.  Sams immediately runs to the PTO to file a patent.  Who owns the patent to this invention and why?

Who is Bob, and because of the First to File rule of patent law

500

If an employer treats a specific individual in a protected class less favorably than those who are not in the protected class because of a person's race, color, etc., it is what kind of claim?

What is Disparate Treatment disctrimination?

500

Liability of an incoming partner for antecedent debts is unlimited.

false

500
Limited copying allowed when the copyrighted material is copied without permission for use in connection with criticism, news reporting, research, education, or parody.
What is fair use?