Category Archives: Intellectual Property Protection

The new way to start a business is to start out with a vision of making money and not spending it.  Try to create your vision with what you have and see if your customers will buy your products before going deeply in debt.  Borrowing money to try to cover all of the aspects that you believe [...]

Copyright Protection: What is a Copyright? A copyright is the protection created under the United States Copyright Act which protects “an original work of authorship.” Copyrights protect music, photographs, video, films, works of art, software, buildings, and architectural drawings when they are put into a fixed form that can be copied and distributed. What are [...]

Do you create your own house plans or blueprints?  Do you have someone (e.g. an architect) assist or create layouts and blueprints for you?   If you paid to have them drawn up, you may or may not be the owner of the plans or blueprints.  What do I mean?  You may have the right to [...]

Choosing a Business Name and Protecting Your Brand Choosing a name to properly represent your product or service can be difficult and should be done with careful consideration. Before choosing a name, you should do a basic search to determine whether the name you have chosen will infringe on another’s trademark rights. Searching should, at [...]

Ownership of Rights in Product Development Intellectual property is comprised of various rights recognized by the law which were created to protect the result of creative efforts. Those rights can be embodied in such things as patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, rights of publicity, confidential information, shop rights, license rights, contract rights, know-how, and the [...]

The US DOJ has stated that the revised agreement to settle copyright lawsuits against Google for the use of author’s books may still violate copyright and antitrust laws. Particularly, the class action procedure for future copyright claims against Google reaches beyond the claims that are currently at issue. This provision is too broad. It is trying [...]