How To File Trademarks
Posted on April 14, 2008 - Filed Under Automotive, Legal and Law | Leave a Comment
Various companies, in strive to achieve higher market shares and widespread popularity tend to ignore the importance of trademark registration. Getting a trademark registration, though not a legal mandate, is as crucial as thinking of a name itself. The overall brand management and associated marketing efforts could go down the drain if the trademark is not registered. The registration of a trademark with the concerned authorities makes you the unique owner of a particular name or design and hence reduces possibilities of falsification or duplication in name.
Read More..>>Corporate Governance Elements Of Sarbanes Oxley
Posted on April 6, 2008 - Filed Under Automotive, Legal and Law | Leave a Comment
Sarbanes Oxley Law, more commonly known as SOX, is a popular legal tool to ensure that the right measures of corporate governance are infused in the business operations to avoid any corporate scams or misreporting. In fact, the area governed by this act is much larger and diverse, yet the eventual aim is to curtail any illegal activity in the business sphere by tightening the grip of law on the overall operations, especially the financial proceedings.
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Read More..>>Trademark: Do I Need One For My Business Name And Logo?
Posted on April 3, 2008 - Filed Under Automotive, Home and Family, Legal and Law | Leave a Comment
Wondering if a trademark is important to you as a business owner? Let’s start with the basics. A trademark is a word, phrase, symbol, or logo that distinguishes and identifies the source of goods of one company or person from another. For example, the name Kraft is trademarked, as is Nike’s “swoosh” logo.
The list of what constitutes a trademark is long. A trademark can also be granted to unique packaging such as the shape of Coca-cola’s bottle, building designs, color, sound, and even fragrance. Service marks receive the same legal protection, but are used to distinguish services instead of products.
Read More..>>How To Create A Partnership
Posted on April 2, 2008 - Filed Under Automotive, Legal and Law | Leave a Comment
Partnership refers to an artificial being brought about by the expedient act of collaborating or pooling of interests, industry or capital of at least two or more persons intended primarily to serve or perform a particular business undertaking or enterprise. In a partnership set up, partners act as agents of each other and of the partnership. Each partner is bound by the acts and representations made by their co-partners in dealing and transacting with third persons.
Read More..>>When Is A Corporation Considered Foreign?
Posted on March 12, 2008 - Filed Under Automotive, Legal and Law | Leave a Comment
The word “foreign” carries connotations of something in a country other than one’s own. In the world of corporate law, of course, it has an entirely different meaning.
For the most part, corporate law falls into the bowels of state law. Put another way, each state writes its own rules and regulations regarding business entities. There is no federal law on the subject and none seems imminent regardless of how strange some of the state laws are.
Read More..>>Competitive Advantage Through Regulatory Compliance
Posted on March 11, 2008 - Filed Under Automotive, Legal and Law | Leave a Comment
If you are among those managers who feel that the increasing number of regulatory compliance mandates have interrupted your life, it is time that you think again. The heading of this article may seem a little out of place but if you are willing to open your mind and participate in the debate than you could very well end up agreeing that regulatory compliance can create a competitive edge.
Let us clearly establish the parameters that define success or competitive advantage in the modern day business culture. The edge would mean new customers, longer customer retention cycle, better brand image, and, not to forget, a step up in the credit rating ladder.
Read More..>>Can You Trademark Your Business Name?
Posted on March 8, 2008 - Filed Under Automotive, Legal and Law | Leave a Comment
A trademark is a distinctive image, word or other thing that associates with a product or service. So, can you trademark your business name?
Most people think trademarks are logo oriented. In some ways, this is true. The Nike Swoosh is clearly a logo trademark that stands out in peoples minds. When you see it, you immediately think of Nike and its products. While logos can clearly be trademarked, what about a business name? The answer is both yes and no.
Read More..>>Major Advantages Of Establishing A Corporation
Posted on February 21, 2008 - Filed Under Automotive, Legal and Law | Leave a Comment
Do you want to establish your own business but you want other persons to join you in your business venture? If this is what you perceive to do, then we advice you to form a corporation. A corporation is an artificial being created by operation of law having the right of succession and whose powers, attributes and properties expressly authorized by law or incident to its existence. It is composed of at least 5 persons who will be known as the incorporators.
Read More..>>Sarbanes Oxley And Internal Audit
Posted on February 18, 2008 - Filed Under Automotive, Legal and Law | Leave a Comment
Companies listed in the NYSE had to get an internal audit department ready before 31 October making sure the new audit heads could evaluate the scope of their departments work, as well as how to comply with the new Sarbanes Oxley laws. They had to hire new directors and get an audit plan ready due to the provisions made in the Sarbanes Oxley law passed in 2002. The companies had to hire personnel as well as assign the new department a budget, determine how they will document compliances and how much work to assign the audit department. Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 has created a revolutionary change in the corporate governance as well as internal control for companies listed in the NYSE. This Act was passed to check fraud and bring reliability to financial reporting.
Read More..>>The Corporation And Its Guts - The By Laws
Posted on February 14, 2008 - Filed Under Automotive, Legal and Law | Leave a Comment
If you are an aspiring businessperson or a newbie in any sort of business then you have to know abut the corporation and its By Laws, which is said to be the guts of the corporation.
In simple terms, a corporation is one of the various forms of a business entity. If you are already deep into the study of business and business law, then you probably know all about this.
However, there may be several particulars, which you are not yet too knowledgeable about. This article aims to delve a little deeper into these certain particulars.
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