Copyrights & Patents
This is how long an owner has exclusive rights when work was created after 1/1/78.
What is life of the author plus 70 years?
These five components (ACCLF) must be present for a contract to be valid.
What are Agreement, Competent parties, Consideration, Lawful purpose, and Form?
This 4-step acronym (MAPS) describes how to analyze a communication task.
What is Message, Audience, Purpose, Scope?
OSHA was created in this year.
What is 1970?
This Arkansas event in 1957 required federal troops to escort Black students into a previously whites-only school, becoming one of the most controversial moments of the Civil Rights era.
What is the Little Rock Nine / Central High School desegregation crisis?
This type of IP protection allows an inventor to exclude others from making, using, or selling their invention.
What is a patent?
This type of liability results from failing to exercise proper expertise and care.
What is negligence?
This 4-step acronym (PWRR) outlines the writing process.
What is Plan, Write, Relax, Revise?
The EPA was formed by this president's executive order.
Who is Richard Nixon?
This U.S. Supreme Court ruling gave corporations the same political speech rights as individuals, fueling debates about money’s influence over American democracy.
What is Citizens United v. FEC?
Only these entities can obtain patents.
What are individuals?
This type of liability involves intentionally deceitful practice.
What is fraud?
These are the benefits of engineering licensure.
What are better jobs, higher salaries, higher-level work, advancement, and ownership opportunities?
This 1972 act set discharge limits and penalties of $27,500/day.
What is the Water Pollution Control Act?
The forced relocation that moved many southeastern tribes — including groups who lived in present-day Arkansas — led to thousands of deaths and remains one of the darkest federal policies in U.S. history.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This type of patent lasts 15 years and applies to a specific apparatus appearance.
What is a design patent?
This insurance covers some breach, all negligence, but not fraud.
What is professional liability insurance?
These are the four major steps toward licensure in the U.S.
What is ABET degree, FE exam, 4 years experience, PE exam?
This act created the Superfund and joint & several liability.
What is the Compensation and Liability Act of 1980?
This Arkansas figure, later a U.S. president, faced impeachment proceedings stemming from a scandal that continues to spark debate about ethics, media bias, and political motivation.
Who is Bill Clinton?
Name the four components of a patent application summarized as SCDO.
What are Specifications, Claims, Drawings, and Oath?
These employment relationships require maintaining liability insurance.
What are owner–independent contractor and agent?
Arkansas requires this much continuing education each year.
What are 15 PDH and a $40 fee?
This 1969 act involved the public in decision-making processes for major environmental impacts.
What is the NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act)?
This European colonial power artificially drew many African borders, contributing to modern ethnic conflict that persists today.
Who is Britain?