M3 Assignment 2 Submission

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Assignment 2: LASA 1: Legal and Ethical Leadership and Management

Mathis, Inc. is a designer and manufacturer of women’s clothing and specializes in high-end women’s winter fashions. Normandale, a retailer, sells high-end products in malls throughout the country. With Mathis’s high costs, Normandale is unable to make a profit from the sale of Mathis’s products.

Countess Lori-Ann (CLA) is a Mathis competitor. Normandale sends photographs and samples of the Mathis line to CLA and instructs them to make an identical line at a lower price. Mathis labels are easily discernable in the photographs and the samples have the Mathis label attached. CLA copies the Mathis line for Normandale.

CLA sells the clothing to Normandale at a low price allowing Normandale to sell the products for a total gross profit of nearly $3 million, an increase of nearly 50% over its sale of Mathis products. Mathis discovers that Normandale is selling counterfeit products, and sends several cease-and-desist letters to them—to no avail. Mathis then sues Normandale alleging Normandale has engaged in illegal conduct. Normandale counters that it did nothing wrong.

Research business law in regard to protection of intellectual property using your textbook, the Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet. Based on the facts of the case and research, write an analytical paper. In the paper, respond to the following questions:

• Was it ethical for Normandale to sell the alleged knock-off products at a lower price? Explain.
• What federal or state laws protect owners of intellectual property?  How do they apply here? Explain.
• What damages, if any, has Mathis suffered because of Normandale’s conduct? Explain.
• What are the differing views on the social responsibility of corporations like Normandale?
• What ethical code could Normandale implement to prevent similar incidents in the future?
• Do the owners of Normandale have personal liability to Mathis for damages?  Explain.
• Do the owners of Normandale have personal criminal liability for their conduct and that of the business?  Explain.

Write a five-page paper in Word format. Apply APA standards for writing style to your work.

Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M3_A2.doc. For example, if your name is John Smith, your document will be named SmithJ_M3_A2.doc.

By the due date assigned, deliver your assignment to the Submissions Area.  

Your assignment is to prepare and submit a paper on oil in angola and the sustainability or challenges meeting sustainability of sonangol. The company operates in the most efficient, transparent and safe manner with a commitment to environmental protection. The purpose of the company is to promote the harmonious development of the Republic of Angola and to reinforce sustainable use of hydrocarbon resources.&nbsp.The company operates in the most efficient, transparent and safe manner with a commitment to environmental protection. The purpose of the company is to promote the harmonious development of the Republic of Angola and to reinforce sustainable use of hydrocarbon resources.&nbsp.

1.0 Oil in Angola In Africa, Angola is the third-largest oil producer after Nigeria and Libya. The country due to its significant growth and good relationship with other oil-producing countries joined the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries abbreviated OPEC in the year 2007. In reference to the BP Statistical Energy survey in 2012, Angola was able to prove oil reserves of approximately 13.5 billion barrels in the previous year. The country is known for its exploration and production of crude oil which has an API gravity which ranges from 32 to 39.5 degrees and contents of Sulphur of 1.12 percent to 0.14 percent (Newton, 2009). Almost 90 percent of the country’s crude oil is exported to China and the US.

Due to rich amount of gas and oil produced by the country, Angola boasts a good economy due to exceptional revenues and foreign income generated by the export of gas and oil products all over the world. Among all African countries, Angola is among the top developing countries and this is proved by the high standards of living in the country and availability of quality social services and institutions. The government of Angola has tough policies and legislation in place that ensures all oil and gas producing companies in the country are utilizing oil resources effectively and efficiently. It ensures that the company practices are both the environment and human-friendly (Nelson, 2008). This has made all the oil and gas producing companies to develop a competitive sustainability strategy that enables them develop a global competitive advantage.

2.0 Sonangol’s sustainability strategy

Sustainability in business is simply a way in which a business organization conducts its business activities with consideration of social and environmental issues.&nbsp.