One thing that people often mistakenly believe is that you are never allowed to use the same name as another business. Doing so infringes on that other business owner’s rights by confusing consumers and causing them to make purchases from the wrong company. This...
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Intellectual Property & Trade Secrets
When is it time to create a trademark?
Nearly every successful company has a strong brand. When you see advertisements and products from a company, you expect to see their logo, maybe a consistent color pallet and sometimes a commercial jingle. Without those key ingredients, many companies wouldn’t be...
What is trade dress and how does it impact your company?
When you think about intellectual property, you may think of trademarks and copyrights. Many people don’t know about trade dress. This is a type of intellectual property that identifies your company based on specific features of packaging or the product. Trade dress...
How patents and trademarks protect your business
Every business has certain things they want to protect. These are often critical components of their company, such as trademarks, inventions and innovations. In other words: Their intellectual property is one of the most valuable things they own. Understanding a few...
Why most businesses need help with patent prosecution
Patents are some of the most authoritative government protections for intellectual property. When you come up with a new concept, new chemical formula or new production process, you can patent your research or your new products. When you have a patent, you can...
Do you own your employees’ ideas?
As a business owner, you know that you may need to apply for patents and trademarks when you come up with an intellectual property of your own. This is how you keep other businesses from using it, and it's important to protect your IP because it is so valuable to your...
Can the USPTO refuse to register your trademark?
Although you can use a trademark without registering it with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), you will lose significant advantages. Examples include: Registration may deter others from using identical or similar marks Registration proves...
Can you patent an idea?
You have an excellent idea, and you want to start a business based around it. However, you're nervous to even talk to anyone about it because you don't want someone to steal your idea. What you're wondering is if you could patent that idea first. This would allow you...
Factors to consider before obtaining a patent
It is likely that you have spent many years trying to establish your company. There may be unique technology and methods at the heart of your business activities. However, such components can only remain unique if they are protected. Unfortunately, it is not uncommon...
Is it getting harder to protect intellectual property?
Intellectual property law has always been important, as business owners have always been worried about someone stealing their ideas, trademarks, trade secrets, or patented designs. They didn't want someone else to be able to profit off of these things, either by...