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BA 531: MANAGING LEGAL ISSUES
RELATED TO TECHNOLOGY AND E-BUSINESS
SCHEDULE PAGE
Winter 2006
[Return to Syllabus Page]
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Week / Date |
Chapters to Read/Supplementary
Readings to Read before Class/Due dates for Assignments |
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Week 1 Jan. 12 |
Topic: Overview of Managing E-Commerce and
Technology Law Issues Assigned
Optional
additional background reading for the course: Melvin Chapters 7, 8 (Overview of Litigation
and Alternative Dispute Resolution and Jurisdiction). |
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Week 2 Jan. 19 |
Topic: Going Online: Formation Issues
including Choosing a Business Entity and Introduction to Securities Law Assigned Optional recommended
reading: You may
sign up to receive free e-commerce law updates at http://www.gigalaw.com/newsletters/dailynews.html. |
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Week 3 Jan. 26 |
Topic: Going Online: Taxation of Products and
Services Assigned CyberEthics
Essays on Chapter 1 Due Today (First chance to satisfy Course Deliverable
#1). Hint: see
“Reflections and Exploration,” page 34 for a possible theme for an essay on
Chapter 1. Description
of Requirements for Course Deliverable #1: You are required to
write a 3-4 double-spaced typed essay on a major theme in one of the three
assigned chapters in CyberEthics. This
means that you will have three opportunities to satisfy this course
deliverable (but you can only choose one opportunity and you must meet the
due date for the essay on the assigned chapter that you choose). This is an individual paper and no group
papers will be allowed on this assignment. Read the assigned chapter. Then select one of the major themes in the
chapter. Your task is to write an
essay that describes the theme that you have chosen and provides your ethical
insights on the theme. Ideally your essay would address the following
questions: What ethical challenges are
posed for business/nonprofit managers that relate to your theme? What are the different ethical
approaches/viewpoints that could be applied to manage the ethical challenges
that you have identified? What do you think is the best approach to achieve
an ethical solution to the ethical challenges that you have identified? Do
you think there is a need for legal regulation or additional legal regulation
to ensure ethical behaviour? If so, describe. What management actions do you recommend
for an organization to help it ensure it meets the ethical challenges you
have identified?
Guest Speaker:
Expert on Forming New Business Entities: Theresa
M. Wade, Attorney, Garrett Hemann, Robertson, |
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Week 4 Feb. 2 |
Topics: Managing Intellectual
Property Law – Focus on Patents. Assigned CyberEthics
Essays on Chapter 4 Due Today (Second chance to satisfy Course
Deliverable #1). See Description of Requirements for Course
Deliverable #1 described in Week 2. Guest Speaker on
Insights on Managing Patent Assets and Avoiding Liability for Patent
Infringement:
Tim Myers, Patent Attorney, Hewlett Packard. |
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Week 5 Feb. 9 |
Topics:
Managing Intellectual Property, Continued – Focus on Trade Secrets,
Trademarks and Trade Dress, Copyrights. Assigned Course Deliverable
#2 Due Today: Memorandum on Choosing a Business Entity Form. ·
Individual memorandum. Prepare a 2-4 page, double-spaced,
memorandum from you to your fellow new business promoters (imaginary co-entrepreneurs)
on the selection of a business entity for a new business that you hope to
form with your fellow entrepreneurs. It is your job to come up with a concept
for a new business and to describe the services or products that it will
provide, state(s) in which it will operate, decide who will be the owners and
managers of the business. In the
memorandum you must describe the business entity (example: corporation with a
Subchapter S election to provide accounting services to clients in ·
Option for IBP group members to
prepare a group memorandum on the selection of a business entity related to
their current IBP project. A maximum of two to three
members of an IBP group may work together and will be responsible for
preparing a 3-5 page, double-spaced, memorandum on this topic that describes
the Business Entity selected for the for-profit organization that is the
subject of the IBP project, reasons for that selection, and the strengths and
weaknesses of the business entity form selected. You must create an Exhibit that addresses
all the issues listed in the left-hand column of the Concept Summary: Forms of Business Entities, Melvin, p. 33. This Exhibit must also include specific examples
of risks, benefits, costs, etc. that relate to your business model. This
Exhibit must be attached to the Memorandum and is not part of the page length
restrictions for the assignment. This memorandum and attachments will be
graded on a group basis. To receive
credit for the memorandum, an IBP member must substantially contribute to the
preparation of the memorandum. |
Week 6 Feb. 16 |
Topics:
Legal Issues of Operating and Management of E-Commerce Firms – E-Contracts
and Electronic Signatures Assigned Reading: a)
Melvin Chapter 9 (Contracts, Sales & E-Commerce); b) Steven Blythe: Digital
Signature Law of the United Nations, European Union, United Kingdom and United
States: Promotion of Growth in E-Commerce With Enhanced Security, 11 Richmond
Journal of Law & Technology (2005). Guest Speaker
on Protecting Intellectual Property: Expert on Intellectual
Property Law and Managing Technology Ventures: |
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Week 7 Feb. 23 |
Topics: Legal Issues of Operating and
Management of E-Commerce Firms – Focus on Cyber Torts. Assigned Course Deliverable
#3 Due Today. Report on Identifying and Protecting a Firm’s
Intellectual Property ·
Individual Report on your study of
an organization’s intellectual property challenges. Prepare a short report analyzing
one or more of the primary forms of intellectual property that are related to
the business model of an existing business or non-profit organization of your
choice. Describe the organization and its
business model including key forms of intellectual property that it will own
or generate, identify threats to the business’s intellectual property (alternatively
you may identify risks that the business will infringe on others’
intellectual property), and outline a plan to protect the organization’s IP
(or to minimize the risk of infringing other others’ IP). The page length requirement for this
assignment is 3-5 pages, double-spaced. ·
Alternative for IBP Teams: A maximum of two to three members of an IBP team may prepare a group report analyzing the key forms of
intellectual property that are related to the business model covered by your IBP
project, identify threats to the organization’s intellectual property,
identify risks that the business will infringe on others’ intellectual
property, and outline a plan to protect the organization’s IP and to minimize
the risk of infringing other others’ IP. This alternative for IBP teams requires that
the team members participating in this course deliverable must prepare one
report as a group project leading to a group grade. The page length requirements of the report
are 4-6 pages, double-spaced. To receive credit for participating in the
alternative for IBP teams, a group member must substantially contribute to the
report. |
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Week 8 Mar. 2 |
Topics: Legal Issues of Operating and
Management of E-Commerce Firms – Focus on Online Advertising and Direct
Marketing (including legal regulation of advertising and direct marketing by
online businesses and protection of consumer privacy and personal data). Assigned |
Week 9 Mar. 9 |
Topic: Legal Issues of Operating
and Management of E-Commerce Firms – Focus on Managing Human Resources. Assigned a) Melvin Chapter 14; b) c) Article: How
(Un)Ethical Are You?, by Mahzarin R. Bazerman et al., Harvard Business
Review, 00178012, Dec.2003, Vol. 81, Issue 12. (This article is available on OSU’s
online library resources in the Business Source Premier database, provided by
EBSCOhost. See Web links on page one of the document posted on Blackboard for
instructions on how to locate this article); d) CyberEthics Chapter
2 (Privacy and Information Technology). Discussion
Question for the Class: If you were a manager of a team in an organization,
how could you use the article “How (Un)Ethical Are You?” to promote ethical
decision-making by team members? Do you believe that you would require team
members to take the Implicit Association Tests referred to in the article?
Would it be ethical to do so? You can try an IAT at https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/ [there is an opportunity to click
on a Demonstration]. Essays on CyberEthics Chapter 2 Due
Today (Last chance to satisfy Course Deliverable #1). See Description of Requirements for Course Deliverable #1 described in
Week 3. |
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Week 10 Mar. 16 |
Topic: Computer Crime, Internet Regulation
and Obscenity; Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility Reading Assignment: a) Melvin Chapter 15; b) Article:
The Virtue Matrix, by Roger Martin,
Harvard Business Review, 00178012, Mar2002, Vol. 80, Issue 3 (This article
is available on OSU’s online library resources in the Business Source Premier
Database, provided by EBSCOhost. See Web links posted on Blackboard for
instructions on how to locate this article). |
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Final Exam |
As scheduled. Have a Great Spring Break.
Last Revised: December 7, 2005 |