All businesses must comply with applicable laws. Suppose the therapists in a small speech therapy agency develop a specific method of training nonverbal children to communicate. Within six months, the director is given information indicating that a rival agency is now using and claiming credit for their assistive communication method. What law has the rival agency broken?

Question

(1 point)
Responses

Administrative law
Administrative law

Intellectual property law
Intellectual property law

Contract law
Contract law

Environmental law

Answer 1

The correct response is Intellectual property law.

The rival agency has likely infringed on the original agency's intellectual property rights by using and claiming credit for their method of training without permission. This could involve patent infringement, copyright violation, or misappropriation of trade secrets, depending on how the method is classified and protected under intellectual property laws.