ACTIVITY SHEET

BUSINESS LAW

BUSINESS LAW TERMS

 

Instructions-Intranet Access

1. Launch your Web browser.
2. Access the Corporate View Web site at http://www.corpview.com
3. Click the Intranet Employee Login

Username – Student Name

Password – intern

 

ACTIVITY 1

Access the Intranet and find the definition for each of these terms by clicking the Shop Talk link on the Regular Features page.

Charters                                   Domain Name                                      Registered

Civil Laws                                Eminent Domain                                               Trademark

Code                                        Incorporation                                        Service Mark

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)                  Intellectual Property Rights

Torts                                        Trade Names

Copyright                                 Litigation                      Trademark

Criminal Law                            Patent Pending  United States Code

                                                Patents                         (USC)

 

ACTIVITY 2

Business and corporate law contains many specialties. Here are a few examples:

Banking                        Bankruptcy                   Business ethics  Contracts

Employee and union relations

Employee benefits, relocations, and health care

Finance and accounting

Incorporation and dissolution of corporations

International business

Liabilities          Liquidations                  Mergers and acquisitions

Partnerships      Patents                         Securities and Investments

Tax                  Franchises

 

Choose five of the specialty areas listed above. Using the Internet, find five laws that deal with each specialty area. Create a table, spreadsheet, or chart to organize your answers.

 

ACTIVITY 3

1. Access the Corporate View Web site.
2. Select the Legal Services link from the Corporate View Intranet Home page.
3. Click the Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Resources link. Select the Copyright Basics link. Use this document to answer question 4 through 8.

Key your answers to question 4 through 12 in a word processing file.

4. What is a copyright, and who can claim a copyright?
5. Define a "work made for hire."
6. List the eight categories of work protected under copyright law.
7. What is not protected under copyright law?
8. Read the How to Secure Copyright section of Copyright Basics and explain the statement "Copyright is secured automatically when the work is created."
9. Patents are handled in a manner different from copyrights. Return to the Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Resources list on the Legal Services page, and select the Functions of the Patent and Trademark Office link. Briefly describe the PTO and explain its functions.
10. Return to the Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Resources list and click the What is a Patent? link. How does the PTO define a patent for an invention?
11. How does the PTO define a copyright? A trademark or servicemark?
12. Return to the Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Resources list and click the What Can Be Patented link. In your own words, explain what can be patented. Are there any things that cannot be patented? Explain.

 

 

 

ACTIVITY 4

 

Access the following web site: http://www.moga.state.mo.us/const/T11.htm

Missouri Constitution

Article XI

Corporations

Set up a word processing file and answer the following questions using the above web site.

1. What is the definition of "corporation?"
2. Give one detail of corporate organization.
3. What is the definition of "eminent domain?" (Use dictionary or the Internet)

What is the definition of "inviolate?"

What does the Constitution say about corporations subject to eminent domain – trial by jury?

4. What is the liability of stockholders?