ll 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?
The rival agency may potentially be in violation of intellectual property laws, specifically copyright laws, if they are using and claiming credit for the specific method of training developed by the therapists in the small speech therapy agency without permission.
