Business Legal Issues Wednesday Clock-In

5. Laws that cover fair wages and benefits for all employees.
6. These promote fair business practices and protect the best interests of employers, employees, consumers, and the government.
7. Protect a person’s or company’s inventions, artistic works, and other intellectual property. These protect a business’ unique phrases, symbols, and designs.
9. Protects music, writings, paintings, and other original works of authorship.
11. Any use of intellectual property without permission. Infringement may have legal consequences for your business.
13. Laws that establish regulations to eliminate illness and injury in the workplace. The most prominent of these laws is the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSH Act) .
14. This gives the person or company the right to be the sole producer of a product for a defined period of time.

1. When one or both parties may choose not to fulfill the contract’s terms.
2. Something that comes from a person’s mind, such as an idea, invention, or process.
3. The steps and methods involved in the legal process.
4. Keeps people safe from harmful products.
8. A civil wrong, as opposed to a criminal wrong. For example, perhaps a business owner fails to shovel snow one day. If a shopper slips and breaks an arm on that sidewalk, a tort has occurred.
10. Protects taglines, slogans, names, symbols, or any unique method to identify a product or company.
12. A proposal to provide a service or good. Offers may be oral or written. For example, if a seller offers a car for $5,000 to a buyer, an offer has been made.