184 Posts Found

This article discusses various business and procedural considerations relating to going private and provides an overview of some of the techniques that can be used to take a company private.

Content: Article | Author: Cristy Lomenzo Parker | Source: Rutan & Tucker LLP | Subjects: Finance, Legal

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Regulation is merely society’s way of saying that it does not approve of the way business is operating or, that by operating the way it is, business is ignoring what the society has set as objectives and goals for itself.

Content: Quotation | Source: Electronic Journal of Business Ethics and Organization Studies (EJBO) | Subjects: Ethics, Legal

Following up on the Term Sheet series, the Feld Thoughts blog offer a series on the Letter of Intent. As stated in the first post, “Deals have to start somewhere, and often the first real ‘document’ that gets negotiated after the foreplay turns serious is the infamous letter of intent…This sometimes delightful and usually non-binding document (except for things like a no shop agreement) is … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Authors: Brad Feld, Jason Mendelson | Source: Feld Thoughts | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Legal, Venture Capital

Bagley and Dauchy take the would-be entrepreneur from the decision to go it alone through the growth of the new venture to the initial public offering — anticipating and explaining legal concerns throughout the process. There are chapters on deciding whether to incorporate, raising capital, and forming a board, as well as discussions of contracts, product liability, intellectual property, and human resources.

“There is a need … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Constance E. Bagley, Craig E. Dauchy | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Legal

There are some companies that say, Let’s do whatever it takes to meet the requirements of the law. There’s nothing wrong with that, but you have to recognize that the law, by definition, typically is made up of rules that have been made to address previous situations. It’s tough for it to anticipate future violations that might occur. Companies that invest in building an ethical … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Ethics, Legal

Law is spelled out by consensus in society: It is a minimum standard of conduct. But ethics is not a result of consensus, not something discerned by taking a poll. Ethics is the ideal; law is the minimum.

Content: Quotation | Source: Rochester Review | Subjects: Ethics, Legal

Some employers are afraid of handbooks. They believe that setting down rules and regulations in writing will somehow lead them into court. In fact, this may be true for some employers. An employer who does not want to act consistently, or who intends to act fairly but has ill-trained staff, may be better off without an employee handbook. This article suggest that there is no … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Sources: All Business Network, HRnext.com | Subjects: Human Resources, Legal

Learn critical IP strategies from Silicon Valley attorneys Michele Liu and Dennis Fernandez.

Content: Article | Authors: Dennis Fernandez, Michele Liu | Source: USF | Subjects: Innovation, Legal

Nobody really believes that it’s an ethical precept that you obey every law. If you obey a law that requires you to do something that is unethical or amoral, I think everybody in the room would agree it’s a proper human behavior to break that law as long as you’re willing to accept the responsibility for that. That was the justification for conscientious objection during … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Ethics, Legal

In principle, patents open up innovations in two ways. First, they confer only temporary rights; once patents expire or are abandoned, the intellectual property they are designed to protect passes into the public domain. Second, they require the details of the invention to be disclosed so they can be replicated. This permits follow-on innovation, which is essential for industrial progress.

More recently, as the patent system … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: The Economist | Subjects: Intellectual Property, Legal

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Privacy law compliance is hard enough stateside. But when you’re a global corporation trying to comply with a multitude of nations’ laws, you’ve got a real headache.

Content: Article | Author: Larry Ponemon | Source: Darwin Magazine | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Legal

From Stanford law professor Lessig (Code; The Future of Ideas) comes this expertly argued, alarming and surprisingly entertaining look at the current copyright wars. Copyright law in the digital age has become a hot topic, thanks to millions of music downloaders and the controversial, high-profile legal efforts of the music industry to stop them. Here Lessig argues that copyright as designed by the Framers has … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Lawrence Lessig | Subjects: Legal, Miscellaneous

When it comes to attorneys, even the smartest business owners screw up. It doesn’t have to be that way — if you follow Inc.’s plan for managing your lawyer

Content: Article | Author: Mark Obbie | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subject: Legal

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He who receives an idea from me receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me…Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property.

Content: Quotation | Source: Business 2.0 | Subjects: Economics, Intellectual Property

The decision in Victor’s Little Secret v. Victoria’s Secret requires that the holder of the trademark prove that a competitor’s similar trademark causes actual dilution in order to obtain an injunction against its use. However, significant questions remain.

Content: Article | Authors: Carol Docan, Leonard Rymsza, Linnea B. McCord | Source: Graziadio Business Report | Subject: Legal

At no cost, Onecle provides a large number of sample contracts and similar legal documents, from consulting agreements to trusts and many other forms of agreements. [Brain Food annotation]

Content: Online Resource | Source: Oncle Inc. | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, Legal