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NAU ACC 205 Final Exam / Actual
Questions With Correct Answers
COBRA-correct-answer-continual covered health insurance in voluntary or
involuntary termination of employment
employee privacy rights-correct-answer-available for employees if employers
engage in some form of surveillance
constructive discharge-correct-answer-must present proof of intolerable working
conditions (employer knew or had reason to know and failed to correct within a
reasonable time period)
disparate treatment discrimination-correct-answer-intentional wrongful
discrimination
disparate impact discrimination-correct-answer-unintentional wrongful
discrimination that affects an entire class
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Title VII of Civil Rights Act of 1964-correct-answer-prohibits discrimination based
on race, color, national origin, religion, or gender
sexual harrassment-correct-answer---quid pro quo: favors in exchange for
something
--hostile environment: discriminatory intimation, ridicule, or insult
defenses to employment discrimination-correct-answer---merit: someone else is
better qualified (nee proof)
--required to meet bona fide occupational qualification
--required to maintain a legitimate seniority system
--after-acquired evidence= NO defense
patent-correct-answer-exclusive rights to an invention; must file a patent
application and get approved; duration is 20 years; infringement is making/ selling
invention without permission; remedy includes royalties and lost profits (tripled
for intentional infringement)
copyright-correct-answer-right of author for literary or artistic work; acquired
automatically; duration is authors life+70 years; infringement s when work is
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copied in substantial part; remedy includes profits made by infringer (first sale
doctrine: says that you are not infringing if you sell someone else's book, etc)
trade mark/ trade dress/ name/ service mark-correct-answer-distinctive word,
name, symbol, device, or clothes that distinguishes an entity from others;
duration is unlimited as long as in use; infringement is when copied to a
substantial degree; remedy includes injunction, actual damages+profits,
destruction of articles that infringed, and costs of atty fees
trade secret-correct-answer-any info a business posses that gives it an advantage
over competitors; duration is forever as long as kept secret; infringement is
unauthorized disclosure; remedy includes costs and atty fees
tenancy in common-correct-answer-each party owns an undivided interest that
passes to heirs at death (no right of survivorship)
act of state doctrine-correct-answer-judicial branch of one government will not
examine validity of public acts committed by foreign government
administrative agency-correct-answer-state, local, or federal; given power through
Congress through enabling legislation; created for implementation of
statutes(laws)
NAU ACC 205 Final Exam / Actual
Questions With Correct Answers
COBRA-correct-answer-continual covered health insurance in voluntary or
involuntary termination of employment
employee privacy rights-correct-answer-available for employees if employers
engage in some form of surveillance
constructive discharge-correct-answer-must present proof of intolerable working
conditions (employer knew or had reason to know and failed to correct within a
reasonable time period)
disparate treatment discrimination-correct-answer-intentional wrongful
discrimination
disparate impact discrimination-correct-answer-unintentional wrongful
discrimination that affects an entire class
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Title VII of Civil Rights Act of 1964-correct-answer-prohibits discrimination based
on race, color, national origin, religion, or gender
sexual harrassment-correct-answer---quid pro quo: favors in exchange for
something
--hostile environment: discriminatory intimation, ridicule, or insult
defenses to employment discrimination-correct-answer---merit: someone else is
better qualified (nee proof)
--required to meet bona fide occupational qualification
--required to maintain a legitimate seniority system
--after-acquired evidence= NO defense
patent-correct-answer-exclusive rights to an invention; must file a patent
application and get approved; duration is 20 years; infringement is making/ selling
invention without permission; remedy includes royalties and lost profits (tripled
for intentional infringement)
copyright-correct-answer-right of author for literary or artistic work; acquired
automatically; duration is authors life+70 years; infringement s when work is
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copied in substantial part; remedy includes profits made by infringer (first sale
doctrine: says that you are not infringing if you sell someone else's book, etc)
trade mark/ trade dress/ name/ service mark-correct-answer-distinctive word,
name, symbol, device, or clothes that distinguishes an entity from others;
duration is unlimited as long as in use; infringement is when copied to a
substantial degree; remedy includes injunction, actual damages+profits,
destruction of articles that infringed, and costs of atty fees
trade secret-correct-answer-any info a business posses that gives it an advantage
over competitors; duration is forever as long as kept secret; infringement is
unauthorized disclosure; remedy includes costs and atty fees
tenancy in common-correct-answer-each party owns an undivided interest that
passes to heirs at death (no right of survivorship)
act of state doctrine-correct-answer-judicial branch of one government will not
examine validity of public acts committed by foreign government
administrative agency-correct-answer-state, local, or federal; given power through
Congress through enabling legislation; created for implementation of
statutes(laws)
