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This October, we're shining our Portland Business Spotlight on our friends and neighbors in the Pearl—Firebrand Sports, a boutique fitness studio known for cutting edge, no-where-else-in-Portland workouts. We sat down with co-owners (and mother-and-daughter team) Linda and Sara to chat about what...

This graphic is representational only. The actual Devil's Desciples MC logo includes a swastika on its design, which we chose to omit from this blog post. Motorcycle courtesy of Vecteezy. Collective membership marks are a lesser known species of protectable marks, but can be especially valuable...

Beats Studio 3 headphones. A Partnership Gone Sour: Last month, a California jury awarded $25 million in damages to Steven Lamar ("Lamar") in his lawsuit against Dr. Dre ("Dre") and Jimmy Iovine ("Iovine"). Steven Lamar, a former business partner of defendants and Beats co-founders Dre and Iovi...

As sunny skies and warm weather set in, Res Nova Law shines our Portland Business Spotlight on fitness equipment and training company, Level 10 Group X. Founded by Reggie Senegal, an entrepreneur who realized his passion for creating fitness products when he retired from a decorated and professio...

The Fuzzy Line Between Patents & Trade Secrets: Patents and trade secrets provide different but complementary scopes of protection for valuable business information. While patents protect new and non-obvious inventions that become disclosed to the public at some point during patent prosecutio...

All images courtesy of Castelli. May is coming to an end, and Res Nova Law is ready to ride into summer. This month, we're shining our Portland Business Spotlight on Castelli, a legendary Italian cycling apparel company rooted in Portland, Oregon. We spoke to Greg Cowan, the president of...