Intro to Law I
This philosopher famously declared, 'Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
This system is rooted in written codes and rules
What is civil law?
The brand "Apple" belongs to this category of trademark
What is arbirary TM category?
This legal concept shields personal assets from being used to satisfy business debts, providing a safeguard for business owners.
What is liability protection?
These are technical inventions that are new, unique, an usable in some type of industry.
What are patents?
These serve to maintain order, protect rights, and promote justice within a community, ensuring that everyone can coexist peacefully.
What are laws?
This type of ruling addresses the core legal issues and rights of the parties involved
What is substantive ruling or ruling on the merits?
This refers to the overall look and feel of a product or packaging, including its overall presentation.
What is trade dress?
This business entity offers flexible management, limited liability, and fewer formation requirements than a corporation.
What is an LLC?
Trademarks, Trade Secrets, Patents, and Copyrights are included in this category of laws.
What is intellectual property law?
This legal principle, rooted in the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution, ensures that when federal and state laws conflict, the federal law prevails.
What is preemption?
What is SCOTUS?
This concept prevents trademark registration because the desired word is commonly used by the industry
What is a generic mark?
This type of entity is comprised of only one member and does not have a liabity protection
What is a sole proprietorship?
This is a symbol, word, or phrase that identifies the source of goods or services.
What is a trademark?
It's an implied agreement that humans enter into/accept once born to make society orderly.
What is the social contract?
This type of ruling ends a case but does not resolve the merits of it. This decision could prevent or not someone from filing the case again.
What is procedural ruling?
It is the process of searching outside of the USPTO search engine to assess if there is someone locally using your desired trademark
What is TM common law search/clearance?
This type of business entity does not offer a pass-through taxation, but it's the more attractive to investors due to its ability to retain earnings and issue multiple stock classes.
What is a corporation?
An inventor's disclosure can be used as prior art to reject the patent application or invalidateit
unless those disclosures were made within a year before filing a patent application
What is a grace period?
These are the numbers of Federal Court of Appeals in the United States.
What is 13? (1-11 numbers, plus DC and Federal)
WA state is located within this Federal Circuit of Appeals
What is the Ninth Circuit of Appeal?
When a trademark is descriptive, it affords less extension of protection until the mark can acquire this secondary meaning
What is distinctiveness?
This is one example of a type of entities that offer passthrough taxation (one is enough)
What is sole proprietorship, partnership, or S corporation?
This specific part of the US Constitution states that IP is designed to promote the progress of science and useful arts
What is Art. 1, Section 8, Clause 8?