Questions from Business Law


Q: How are trademarks and patents different?

How are trademarks and patents different?

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Q: Plaintiff homeowners purchased a parcel of land in the homeowners association’s (

Plaintiff homeowners purchased a parcel of land in the homeowners association’s (HOA’s) subdivision. Their real estate agent requested the attached-garage requirement to be waived, and when the owners...

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Q: Thomas A. Carella filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. At the

Thomas A. Carella filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. At the time, HSBC Bank USA held the sum of $16,540.94 on deposit in a joint bank account in the names of Carella and his father, Thomas J. Carella. Th...

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Q: Defendant Tubbs met her fiancé, Church, over the Internet.

Defendant Tubbs met her fiancé, Church, over the Internet. After several years of correspondence and visits, they became engaged in February 2000. Church and Tubbs planned to be married in Las Vegas i...

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Q: Travis Scheible was riding his bicycle and started to cross the street

Travis Scheible was riding his bicycle and started to cross the street from behind a mature tree that overhung the sidewalk and obscured his view of oncoming traffic. As he rode into the street, Travi...

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Q: The Stop & Shop Supermarket and Big Y Foods are supermarkets offering

The Stop & Shop Supermarket and Big Y Foods are supermarkets offering the same services and competing for the same customers. In an advertisement introducing its new, easy-to-use scan saver cards, Sto...

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Q: Securities brokerage firm Charles Schwab filed suit against a former employee who

Securities brokerage firm Charles Schwab filed suit against a former employee who left the company and started his own wealth management firm. Charles Schwab claimed that the names of its clients, alo...

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Q: Nike and Michael Jordan created the Air Jordan line in the 1980s

Nike and Michael Jordan created the Air Jordan line in the 1980s. Jordan fi led suit against a Chinese sportswear company, Qiaodan Sports, in China. Jordan is known in China as Qiaodan, and Qiaodan Sp...

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Q: This chapter distinguishes between private and public law. Why are the

This chapter distinguishes between private and public law. Why are the interests of the public identified with the behavior of the government? Why would public law not be a term referring to the inter...

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Q: What must a party prove to recover under the theory of quasi

What must a party prove to recover under the theory of quasi-contract?

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