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Statutory Supplement to Cases and Materials on Corporations Including Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies (American Casebook)

admin — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 19:15:06 +0000

Offering the traditional, solid approach of previous editions and now streamlined to include more topics for a one-semester course, Hamilton and Macey's Cases and Materials on Corporations covers the law of business associations and corporations for introductory courses. The book discusses all forms of business organization, including limited-liability companies, partnerships, closely held corporations, publicly held corporations, and novel business forms. It also covers transactions in shares by directors and others; indemnification and insurance; and federal securities law, including insider trading, corporate governance, and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. Updated to include new developments, the book covers topics such as Sarbanes-Oxley and more aggressive posturing of the Delaware judiciary, which was revealed for being just that after the important Disney decision; recent developments in asset protection for investors in limited liability companies; the Securities Litigation Uniform Securities Act; new regulations about full disclosure by registered publicly held companies; and the independence of auditors, dirctors and special litigation committees.

Cases and Materials on Corporations Including Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies (American Casebook)

admin — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:15:06 +0000

American Trademark Designs (Dover Pictorial Archive)

admin — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 12:05:26 +0000


732 marks, logos, and corporate-identity symbols. Categories include entertainment, heavy industry, food and beverage. All black-and-white in standard forms.

Trademark and Unfair Competition Law: Cases and Comments (American Casebook Series and Other Coursebooks)

admin — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 12:05:26 +0000

This law school casebookâ��s coverage includes trademark dilution, trademark usage on the World Wide Web, and extensive materials on trademark remedies and affirmative defenses. Notes follow the principal cases, which are designed to alert students to collateral issues, to cite key resources in the legal literature, and to raise thought-provoking questions. The book contains citations to the relatively new Restatement (Third) of Unfair Competition, and McCarthy on Trademarks. It also features illustrations, which will increase students' appreciation of the key issues at stake in many of the cases.

American Trademarks: From the Roaring ’20s to the Swinging ’60s

admin — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 12:05:26 +0000

While they were in print, the three volumes of Eric Baker and Tyler Blik's classic Trademarks series (which together sold 60,000 copies) were the authoritative books of logo design by decade. This definitive collection is now available in an expanded single volume with essays by contemporary graphic design luminaries such as Paula Scher, Stephen Doyle, and many more. Over 1,000 iconic trademarks are packed into this extra-chunky paperback. While the original books have long enjoyed cult status, this attractive, updated edition will win legions of new fans among today's ever-increasingly design-savvy public.

Patent Litigation and Strategy (American Casebook Series)

admin — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:05:26 +0000

This book sets out governing statutes and rules at the beginning of each chapter and includes sample litigation documents where possible. The casebook begins with discussions of who to sue, where to sue, pleading requirements, discovery, and trial strategy. It then moves into substantive legal issues. The Third Edition includes new material on pharmaceutical litigation under the Hatch-Waxman Act and the most developments in the law of invalidity and infringement. The book next addresses issues surrounding remedies, including injunctive relief (with a discussion of the Supreme Court?s eBay decision), contempt proceedings, and damages. Also included are post-trial matters including jury instructions, special verdict forms, the preclusive effect of final judgments, judgment as a matter of law, and new trial motions. Finally, the book covers the appeal process and reexamination and reissue proceedings.

Alternatives to Incorporation for Persons in Quest of Profit: Cases and Materials on Partnerships, Limited Partnerships, Joint Ventures and Related (American Casebook Series)

admin — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 18:32:20 +0000

Organizes the leading cases around note materials that put complicated agency and partnership concepts into an easily digestible format. Describes concepts more clearly in a few sentences than other texts can piece together on pages. Designed as a complete stand-alone course text, it can also be used as a secondary book to flesh out business associations courses that cover corporations, partnerships, and alternate forms of association. Appendices include current versions of the Uniform Partnership Act (UPA), Uniform Limited Partnership Act (ULPA), and the Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act (RULPA).

American Toy Cars and Trucks 1894-1942

admin — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 11:41:38 +0000

Intellectual Property, Cases and Materials (American Casebooks)

admin — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 12:05:26 +0000

The Third Edition has been thoroughly updated to include all significant legislative and judicial developments through the end of 2006, as well as pending Supreme Court cases. In addition, existing materials have been streamlined and restructured, and new topics introduced. In this way, the authors have enhanced both the depth and breadth of coverage, and facilitated short forays into optional topics, while giving professors tremendous flexibility in choosing the areas they wish to emphasize. The resulting materials are easily adaptable to survey courses encompassing anywhere from 3 to 6 credit hours, In addition, by selecting among the topics presented within each broad subject area, a professor may change the emphasis or scope of the survey course from one year to the next without ever having to change textbooks.

Entrepreneurship and Dynamic Capitalism: The Economics of Business Firm Formation and Growth (Praeger Studies in American Industry)

admin — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:32:20 +0000

Kirchhoff blends economics, business, and governemnt policy to demonstrate that entrepreneurship's role in business formation and growth energizes and maintains the viability of capitalism. Entrepreneurs convert new ideas into marketable products and services and use these to grab market shares from older, established firms. This process not only produces economic growth, but also redistributes resources so as to assure equitable distribution within society. Acknowledging that this perception is descriptive but lacks predictive power, Kirchhoff offers a typology to assist in predictive theory building and to guide government policy development.