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Copyrights, Patents, and Trademarks Defined

Copyrights, patents, and trademarks can be among the most valuable assets of a business.

Copyrights

Copyrights protect original artistic or literary works. Federal law protects "original works...

Disclosure of a Corporate Opportunity

Generally, a corporate director breaches the duty of loyalty if she seizes a business opportunity for herself that the corporation was financially capable of undertaking or in which the corporation had a reasonable...

Securities Law

An Outline of Federal Securities Laws

Two laws enacted in response to the 1929 stock market crash - the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 - remain the principal federal laws...

Criminal Liability of Corporate Officers

Under Section 807 of The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (Act), any person who knowingly commits securities fraud is subject to a hefty fine, a prison term of up to 25 years, or both. Section 807 does not criminalize...

Corporate Criminal Liability

Corporations were not initially held criminally responsible for corporate activities. A corporation was considered to be a legally fictitious entity, incapable of forming the mens rea necessary to commit a criminal act. The Supreme Court...