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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Law |
| Grao en Dereito |
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| Business Law |
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| Identifying Data | 2023/24 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Business Law | Code | 612G01011 | |||||||||||
| Study programme |
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| First and Second Cycle | 1st four-month period |
Second | Basic training | 6 | ||||||||||
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| Topic | Sub-topic |
| Lesson 1.- Concept and general characteristics of Commercial Law. | 1.- The concept of Commercial Law. 2.- Commercial Law as a historical category. 3.- Contemporary Commercial Law: The Economic Constitution. |
| Lesson 2.- The sources of Commercial Law. | 1.- General approach: The speciality of Commercial Law. 2.- Commercial Laws. 3.- Commercial usages. 4.- Commercial Courts, arbitration and mediation in commercial matters. |
| Lesson 3.- The company. | 1.- The concept of the company. 2.- The purchase and sale of the company. 3- The leasing of the company. 4.- The transfer of the company mortis causa. |
| Lesson 4.- The entrepreneur. | 1.- The concept of entrepreneur. 2.- Types of entrepreneurs. 3.- The liability of the entrepreneur. 4.- The capacity of the entrepreneur. 5.- The exercise of commercial activity by a married person. 6.- Prohibitions and restrictions on the exercise of the business activity. Loss of the status of entrepreneur. |
| Lesson 5.- The Commercial Register. | 1.- Fundamental notions about the Mercantile Register. 2.- Subjects and registrable acts. 3.- The Territorial Mercantile Registries and their functions. 4.- The Central Mercantile Register and its functions. |
| Lesson 6.- Business accounting. | 1.- Introductory notions. 2.- Formal accounting: The duty to keep accounts, accounting secrecy and accounting as a means of proof. 3.- Material accounting: The annual accounts and the auditing of accounts. |
| Lesson 7.- The representation of the employer. | 1. Introductory notions. 2.- The general attorney-in-fact or factor. 3.- Singular attorneys-in-fact. |
| Lesson 8.- General theory of Intellectual Property and Competition. | 1.- Intellectual Property and Competition Law. 2.- Characteristics of the Intellectual Property regime. 3.- Characteristics of the Competition Law regime. 4.- Modalities. |
| Lesson 9.- Patents. | 1.- The patent of invention: Concept, nature and classes. 2.- Spanish regulation of patents for invention. 3.- Supranational patent law. |
| Lesson 10.- Other industrial creations. | 1.- Utility models. 2.- Industrial design. 3.- Other modalities. |
| Lesson 11.- Trade marks. | 1.- Concept and functions of the trade mark. 2.- The birth of the right over the trade mark: Prohibitions. 3.- Content of the right over the trade mark. 4.- Nullity and revocation of the registered trade mark. 5.- International trade marks and trade marks of the European Union. |
| Lesson 12.- Other distinctive signs. | 1.- The trade name. 2.- The shop sign. 3.- Geographical product designations. 4.- Domain names. |
| Lesson 13.- Copyright. | 1.- Copyright in literary, artistic and scientific works. 2. 2.- Related rights. 3.- Copyright protection. |
| Lesson 14.- Antitrust. |
1.- Legal regime of Antitrust: Spanish regulation and Community Law. 2. Agreements and concerted practices. Abuse of dominant position. 3.- Distortion of competition through unfair acts. Control of business concentrations. 4.- State aid. 5.- Bodies and sanctions. |
| Lesson 15.- Unfair competition and economic advertising. | 1.- Loyalty in commercial competition and the Law on Unfair Competition. 2.- The general prohibition clause. 3.- Acts of unfair competition. 4.- Economic advertising. |
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