ENTR 127 Legal Issues for a Startup
This course is one of a series of courses that provides students with the coaching and guidance to plan for and launch a new business venture. This course is designed to provide students with the knowledge, skills, tools, and resources to identify and understand the legal issues that a new venture must address. Topics include choosing the legal form of organization, ownership, intellectual property rights, licenses and permits, contracts and leases, and other legal and regulatory information.
Hours Weekly
1 hour weekly
Course Objectives
- Evaluate different legal forms of organization and choose the best for one's business venture.
- Describe the protection provided by each of these forms of intellectual property: copyright, patents, and trademarks, and define how one's business can be protected under each form.
- Research and identify the local, state, and federal legal requirements to register and launch one's new business venture.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the important terms, conditions, obligations, and protections of contracts and leases that one's business may be a party to.
Course Objectives
- Evaluate different legal forms of organization and choose the best for one's business venture.
This objective is a course Goal Only
Learning Activity Artifact
- Other (please fill out box below)
- Business Plan Document
Procedure for Assessing Student Learning
- Other (please fill out box below)
- Business Planning Rubric
- Describe the protection provided by each of these forms of intellectual property: copyright, patents, and trademarks, and define how one's business can be protected under each form.
This objective is a course Goal Only
Learning Activity Artifact
- Other (please fill out box below)
- Business Plan Document
Procedure for Assessing Student Learning
- Other (please fill out box below)
- Business Planning Rubric
- Research and identify the local, state, and federal legal requirements to register and launch one's new business venture.
This objective is a course Goal Only
Learning Activity Artifact
- Other (please fill out box below)
- Business Plan Document
Procedure for Assessing Student Learning
- Other (please fill out box below)
- Business Planning Rubric
- Demonstrate an understanding of the important terms, conditions, obligations, and protections of contracts and leases that one's business may be a party to.
This objective is a course Goal Only
Learning Activity Artifact
- Other (please fill out box below)
- Business Plan Document
Procedure for Assessing Student Learning
- Other (please fill out box below)
- Business Planning Rubric