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What's in a Name? Frequently Asked Questions About Trademarks
When it comes to your company's identity, nothing is more vital to your company than your name and logo. By developing a catchy name and snazzy logo for your business, you can quickly get your company recognized, remembered, and respected.
Once you have come up with a winning name and logo, you ...
Waymo v. Uber: Patrolling the Line Between Patents and Trade Secrets
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...
Trade Secrets and Zoom Calls: Be Aware of the Pitfalls
With the shift to remote work likely here to stay for many, companies and their employees are regularly relying on remote conferencing tools such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, WebEx and other platforms to conduct business. Companies should be aware of a recent decision from the Chancery Court in Dela...
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Intellectual Property Basics Series: Patents
What is a patent?
There are three types of patents in the United States: utility patents, design patents and plant patents. A utility patent protects the way a machine, article or process is used and works. A design patent protects the ornamental design of an item. A plant patent protects asexual...
Intellectual Property Basics Series: Trademarks
What should I do to protect the goods and/or services associated with my business?
You may want to consider filing a federal trademark application if you haven't done so yet. A trademark is any symbol, word, slogan, design, or any combination associated with your particular goods and/or services....
Intellectual Property Basics Series: An Introduction
What is intellectual property?
Intellectual property law protects copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and patents. Copyrights refer to any original work of authorship and cover creative works such as literature, illustrations, films, and songs. Trademarks cover branding such as a business or...
Trade Secrets and Zoom Calls: Be Aware of the Pitfalls
With the shift to remote work likely here to stay for many, companies and their employees are regularly relying on remote conferencing tools such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, WebEx and other platforms to conduct business. Companies should be aware of a recent decision from the Chancery Court in Dela...
Beware Copyright Holders: States Can Use Your Work Without Your Consent
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Congress has the power to promote the progress and science of useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries. Article I, Section 8, United States Constitution (Article I). The Copyright Act of 1976...
When you Go! To court for Boldly trying to Go to Space: A Copyright Tale
Mashup's of fictional stories is something that has become more and more relevant in the digital age. You can search for stories that discuss the D.C. Comic superheroes versus the Marvel Comic superheroes. In an episode from the Golden-Globe winning show Parks and Rec in which Patton Oswalt gues...