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Exam 4 (final) Flashcards

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Rights of ownership in intellectual property

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Very important

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Intellectual rights

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Can be even more importatnt than personal/property rights

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Protection of intellectual property rights are in…

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US Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution

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Where did the idea of incentivizing creative works protection originate?

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Venice, Italy during the Renaissance

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Intellectual property makes your idea/creative work like

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Real property

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Intellectual property protection is primarily an area of

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Federal law

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Legal concern of intellectual prop. is

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Illegal use of the property - called infringement

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What is illegal use of intellectual property called

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Infringement

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Damages on intellectual property

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Can be extensive, and can provide that defendant pays succesful plaintiff’s attorney fee

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Types of intellectual property to know

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Trademarks, service marks, trade dress, patents, copyrights, and trade secrets

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You copyright the (blank) , not the (blank)

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song, not the invnetion.

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Trademarks

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TM or R with circle
- Protects distinctive marks about a company from anotehr comapny copying that
- Protects its value

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Statutory Protection (part of TM)

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federal Trademark Dilution Act

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What does Statutory Protection protect

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  • Distintive marks
  • Not all carbonated beverages are coke
  • Don’t want people confusing companies
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How long does a trademark last

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Indefinitely as long as it is continuously used in commerce
- Renewed between 5th and 6th years after being made, adnn every 10 years after that
- If you don’t use it, you might lose it

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tradmemark infringement

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Can get cease and desist order and ciolates common law or statuoory protections
- Coke, Xerox, and Kleenex all use

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To be considered infringement, it must

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  • Be Used without permission
  • Created a likelihood of confusion about the origin of defendatnt’s goods and services
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S

Service Marks

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Registered like a Tm but distinguishes services rather than products
- Ex. “You’re in good hands” - Allstate. “I’m Lovin’ it” - Mcdonald’s

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Duration of Service Marks

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Sames as Trademarks

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Trade Dress

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Image and overall appearance of a product (very broad)

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What do Trade Dresses’ protect

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  • Placement of words
  • Colors of Company (sometimes)
  • Layout of a restaurant
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Trade Dress Duration and protections

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Both same as Trademarks

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Trade Name

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Related to a businesss’s name and good will - protected as trade mark if it is same name as companyn’s product
- Ex. Coca Cola

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Trade name’s are protected

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under common law like TM’s

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TM’s, SM’s, TN’s (Trade Names),

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All are protected the same
- TM’s appply to products
- SM’s apply to services
- TN’s apply to a busineess’ name

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Trade Secrets

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Protection for business processes and informatiion that cannot be patented/copyrighted/trademarked
- Don’t register them as TM’s (because they are secrets)
- Ex. Coke’s formula. google algorithms. Customer lists. WD-40 Spray. Cane’s Sauce.

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Way to protect against disclosure of secrets

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  • Non disclosure agreements
  • Confidentiality
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Licensing

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The key to all intellectual property protections.
- The owners of the property have the right to grant a license to allow otehr people to use their property

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Examples of licenses (there are tens of thousands)

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  • Licensing of songs in movies
  • The licensor receives a ROYALTY for teh use of their intellectual property **
  • Licensor gratns the permission, licensee receives [ermission to use it for a $ **
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Patent

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Highly technical**
- attorneys who do this work usually have advanced technical degrees and are certified in specialty of patent law

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PROTECTION RESULTS FROM FEDERAL LAW and STATUTES

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give inventors exclusive rights to make, use, sell invention for a limited time.
- The first person to file receives it**

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THREE REQUIREMENTS IN ORDER TO HAVE POSSIBILITY OF GETTING SOMETHING PATENTED

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  • Has to be new
  • Useful
  • Not obvious in use of current technology
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patent infringement

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Sue for damaegs, royalties, lost profits and damages can be tripled

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NOTICE TO THE WORLD THAT AN ARTICLE OR DESIGN IS PATENTED BY USE OF

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Patent # or Pat. #

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Patents can go on anything

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Examples
- Handle on cup handle
- keyless entry to cars

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Benefit of owning patent

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people pay you royalties to use your thing

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Patent duration

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20 years (does end)
- Ex. Medicaitons (once they’ve been around for so long, they beceome GENERIC and become much much cheaper)**

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Copyrights

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More artistic side of creative process, not scientific process.
- protection by federal law

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Copyright protected expresssions

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Ideas in your head are not protected, the expression of the idea is protected if it’s in some tangible form
- Ex. Statue, painting, theatre play, motion picture, sound recordings, architecture

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Public performance of a play

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Have to pay the creator of the play because it is a public exppression of their creation

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Underlying ideas

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Can be copied, not covered by the Copyright

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Multiple Choice Test vs. Questions composed

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MQ Test - underlying idea, not copyrightable
Questions composed - copyrightable

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Benefit of owning copyright

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Get paid royalties for other people to use
- Ex. songs in movies, the artists gets paid royalties

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Concern with copyright

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When copyright ends, it goes into the public domain

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Karaoke bars can be sued how much

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up to 75k per song for not paying royalties

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“FAIR USE” EXCEPTION carved out by statute

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fair use is not an infringement of copyright for purposes such as:
criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research

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“FIRST SALE” EXCEPTION

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Buying a book and selling it to a friend for more

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“CHURCH MUSIC” EXCEPTION

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Church that displays lyrics on the screen have to pay for the lyrics, but playing church music itself does not.

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Parody exception

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Weird-Al Yankovic

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“PUBLIC PERFORMANCE” OF COPYRIGHTED PORPERTY (MUSIC)

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Cover badns at bars, the bar has to pay

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Duration of copyrights

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Life of the author PLUS 70 years after death

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Who getes paid all the copyright royalties?

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Songwriteers, publishers, and artists

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How do they get their royalties?

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Performance rights socities/organizations
- ASCAP
- BMI
- SESAC

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(1) 1620 (1)
English and Dutch Settlers like their alcohol, especially beer

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Escaping religious persecution in Europe, they loved their alc

55
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1776 Independence
1791 (2)
Whiskey Rebellion
Federal forces strike down Rebellion aginst whiskey tax

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whiskey rebellion was against teh tax on alc that the gov instated

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1800s to Civil War (3)
Intoxicating Beverages More Plentiful and Cheaper than Tea, Safer than Water
First Wave of Temperance Movement

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The divisions between people of faith and relionin and others more interested in intoxication rooted this politcal and social movement (temperance movement)

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Post Civil War -Early 1900s(4)

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Increase of immigrants moving to bigger cities
Temperance Movement peaks
Must stop “demon” alcohol
Growth of Hospitality industry/ Saloons Proliferate
Industrial revolution shoots up, causing tons of europeans to move to the cities and drink on off time

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1913-1920 (5)
WW1
Amendment 16-19

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beer and ww1 germans
anti immigrantt sentiment is intense
wets vs. drys
Amendement 18 set prohibition to be in effect in 1920

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PROHIBITION (6)
1920-1933

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Failure of Enforcement
Great Depression
“Roaring 20s”
Invention of “cocktail”
Unintended Consequences
Moonshine, bootleggers, rumrunners

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1933 (7)
Repeal of Prohibition
Amendment 21

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Repeal of Prohibition
Role of Great Depression
- states now in charge of beverage laws

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1933-1970’s (8)
States responsible for their own alcoholic beverage laws/”Dry” counties

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Social forces: Vietnam Amendment 26
18 year olds get right to vote

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Late 1970’s-1980’s (9)
Traffic fatalities increase

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Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD)
Irresponsible drinking from 18, 19, 20 year olds

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1984 (10)
National Minimum Drinking Age Law

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State law minimum now 21 year of age or lose highway funding
- fed gov threatens to take away 10% of a states hgihway fed funds if they don’t enforce this law

“Dram” shop acts

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21st century (11)
Amethyst Initiative

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Should minimum age be lowered to 18 or kept at 21, or somewhere in between?
- College presidents think the age for drinking should be younger to avoid “binge drinking”

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How much did Kate Bush make off of Stranger things

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$2.3 million dollars in royalties in a MONTH

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Ed Sheeran wins trail over Marvin Gaye

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The underlying basic chords are similar but not exact.
- “Basic musical things tobuild off of and have been around forever”
- Win for evryone invloved because even Gaye’s family protected his legacy

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Jeapordy 5 facts

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  1. Merv Griffin composed the music and Wheel of Fortune music
  2. Song is actually called “think”
  3. Originated as a lullabby for Griffin’s five year old
  4. Griffin’s made over $100 million from it
  5. Won best game show theme 2009
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Sole Proprietor

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  • Gets all of the profits but also has unlimited liability beyond what insurance would cover
  • Easier to start than any other type of entity, but sometimes if a person operates under another name they must file a Certificate of Assumed Business Name, i.e. “Kanye West d/b/a Ye’s A/C Repair”
  • Pays only personal income tax on profits; makes all of the decisions
  • Business ends when the owner dies
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Franchises

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Contractual agreement where owner of trademark, trade name licenses others to use it in selling goods or services

  • Franchisor-sells grants the franchise/license
  • Franchisee-purchases the franchise rights to conduct business in franchisor’s name
    Like Chick Fil A
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Distributorship

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manufacturer license dealer to sell product in exclusive territory
Examples: Courtesy Cadillac–car dealer; Schilling distributes Anheuser-Busch products

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Chain Style Operations

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franchise operates under franchisor’s trade name and follows standardized methods of operation; may be obligated to obtain supplies exclusively from the franchisor. Planet Fitness now most lucrative chain style
Examples: McDonald’s, H&R Block, Keller Williams

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Manufacturing Arrangement

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franchisor transmits to franchisee essential ingredients or formula to make a product, franchisee makes and markets according to franchisor’s standards
Examples: Coca Cola bottlers

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Laws Governing Franchises

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Laws designed to protect prospective franchisees from dishonest franchisor’s and preventing franchisor from terminating relationship without “just cause”.

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FTC Franchise Rule

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requires franchisor to disclose material facts to prospective franchisee so they may make an informed decision. Must be in writing. Similar to type of disclosures required by SEC in stock offerings. Very involved.

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Franchise Termination

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Termination must be “for cause” (breach of franchise agreement for example) and notice must be given.

Lawsuits center on whether there was a wrongful termination by franchisor. Comes down to balancing of rights between both parties. Contractual principle of good faith and fair dealing implied in all franchise contracts.

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Walk On’s franchisee guy

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got his franchise agreement contract taken away by Walk on’s for posting something innapropriate on Facebook

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Two types of partnerships

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General and Limited

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General Partnerships

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  • 2 or more people agree to carry on business for profit,
  • Taxes the co-owners as their individual income
  • All co-pweners share in liability for obligations, losses, damages, and PROFITS
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Limited Partnerships (LP)

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  • one general partner and one or more limited partners
  • General partenr is responsible for management of partnership and liability of it
  • Limited partner cannot participate in managment of partnership. No liability outside of waht he has contributed/nivested into it
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Limited Liability Partnerships (LLP)

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  • Formed by professionals to limit their liability for negligence
  • Pass through entity for tax purposes
  • In contrast to general partnership where all partners would be liable for partnerships obligations, LLP allows professionals to avoid personal liability for malpractice of other partners.
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Limited Liability Company (LLC)

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  • Popular form of bus. entity in all 50 states but not uniform
    • Combines tax advantages of the partnership with the limited liability of the corporation
    • Members own interests in the LLC, participate in management without incurring personal liability
    • Members liability is limited to the amount of their investment—not personally liable for debts even if they participate in management
  • Profits taxed as personal income to members
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Corporations

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  • Owned by shareholders
    • Board of directors elected by shareholders MANAGES business
  • Board appoints officers
  • Liability of shareholdres limited to their investments
  • ## BIG NEGATIVE - DOUBLE TAXATION
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Closely held corporation

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small amount of shareholders, maybe one or a few. Family owned and does not solicit those outside to purchase shares in corporation. This would describe many incorporated small businesses. No public investment allowed

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Publicly held corporation

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those who have thousands of people (strangers) invest oi them (i.e. Microsoft, Amazon, etc) Stocks traded on the exchanges and governed by SEC and “insider trading” laws

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Quorum

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usually requires more than 50% of board of directors to conduct business

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Shareholders purchase stock. Who is a shareholder may change, but corporation still exists as long as they are solvent.

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yeah

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Corporate Profits/Taxation

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corpporate profits can be distributed as dividends or can be kept as retained earnings

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Corporate Management—Shareholders and officers

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  • Shareholders own corp. but do not manage unless they are an officer—so this is different than a partnership
  • Corporate officers operate in a fiduciary capacity to serve the interests of the S/H
  • Proxy given by S/H who cannot attend the annual meeting
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Proxy

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authorizes another shareholder to vote their shares for them on issues before corporation

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IMPORTANCE OF THE CORPORATE RESOLUTION

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  • Document which empowers a corporation to act in any way
  • Purchase real estate, take out a loan, must be by resolution of board of directors
  • Especially true for smaller corporation
  • Point is the President just can’t go out and do something not authorized to do.
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CIRUCMSTANCES WHEN SHAREHOLDER OR LLC MEMBER COULD BE PERSONALLY LIABLE-CALLED “PIERCING THE VEIL”

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  • Applies to both LLCs and corporations because by their nature they are designed to limit the personal liability of the members/shareholders
    Reason to pierce the veil for test—Disregard the corporate entity—comingle funds or assets
  • LAW THEN ALLOWS A PARTY HARMED BY THE CORPORATION TO PIERCE THE CORPORATE VEIL
    Ex: Corporation cannot pay creditor because they have used corporate money for personal things
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other circumstance when a member or shareholder may be personally liable for a corporate debt

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when they personally guarantee a debt of corporation (mortgage for example).

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RIGHTS OF DIRECTORS

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  • Right to participation—right to participate and be notified
  • Right of inspection—corporate books, records, facilities
  • Right if indemnification (reimbursement) for legal costs, fees and damages
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DUTY OF ALL WHO RUN BUSINESSES—FIDUCIARY DUTY

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Owe ethical and legal duty to act in best interest of the business organization

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DUTY OF CARE—

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  • Act in good faith
  • Exercise care that a reasonably prudent person would exercise in similar circumstances
  • Do what is in best interests of corp.
  • If they do not—they can be personally liable for negligence
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Duty for Reasonable Decisions and Supervision

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  • Informed on corporate matters
  • Conduct reasonable investigation before deciding on action
  • Supervision over work delegated to corporate officers and employees
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DUTY OF LOYALTY-

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  • Faithfulness to one’s obligations
  • Directors/Officers subordinate their personal interest to welfare of corporation and do not engage in “self-dealing”
  • Examples of violating this
    Use corporate funds or confidential info for personal advantage
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BUSINESS JUDGMENT RULE

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  • If this rule were not operative—couldn’t get anyone to serve in these capacities as directors
  • Presumed they will act as a fiduciary but they can make decisions that impact the company unfavorably
  • UNDER THIS RULE—-CORPORATE DIRECTORS OR OFFICERS WILL NOT BE PERSONALLY LIABLE TO THE CORPORATION OR SHAREHOLDERS FOR HONEST MISTAKES OF JUDGMENT AND BAD BUSINESS DECISIONS THAT RESULT IN ECONOMIC LOSSES TO THE SHAREHOLDERS
  • So as long as they conducted themselves properly—shareholder who loses his investment can’t sue director personally
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Corporations, LLCs and Partnerships are known as

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JURIDICAL PERSONS
- recognized as “persons” under the law, separate and apart from the natural persons that formed them

100
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Amendment XVI

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Income tax amendment
- slightly did aaway with the whiskey tax beacuse it was so unpopular and this would replace it a little

101
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Amendment XVII

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Two senators per state, ELEECTED, not appointed

102
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Amendment XIX

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Granted women the right to vote

103
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Amendement XXI

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Repealed the 18th amendment (prohibition)
- gave states the power to rule over alc

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Amendment XIII

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Abolished Slavery

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Amendment XIV

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Gave former slaves rights the same as in the bill of rights

106
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Amendment XV

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Prohibits the denial of the right to vote based on race or color

107
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Amendment XXIII

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Gave Washington DC electoral college votes

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Amendment XXIV

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Citizens cannot be denied the right to vote in federal elections due to failure to pay a poll tax or other tax.

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Amendment XXV

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Adresses that the VP take over if presidential disability or death were to occur (JFK rule)

110
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Amendment XXVI

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Lowered voting age to 18

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Amendment XXVII

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any law that changes the salary of members of Congress can only take effect after the next election for the House of Representatives

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