Trademark Denied: Appeals of Trademark Final Refusals **Attorney Advertising**
The hardest part of registering a trademark is usually coming up with a unique trademark in the first place. A trademark is a word or symbol that should distinguish your company, product, or service from all others. Once you have chosen a name to represent your brand, the next step is to register your trademark […]
Someone Is Using My Trademark…Now What? **Attorney Advertising **
There may come a time in your business when you discover that someone else is infringing upon your intellectual property, such as using your registered trademark. While the other party may indeed be in the wrong, enforcing your rights is solely up to you. If you believe that another person or business is infringing on […]
Help! An Employee Set Up and “Owns” My Social Media Accounts! **Attorney Advertising**
In today’s digital landscape, social media accounts should undoubtedly be considered an asset of a person’s business. By using social media accounts, companies are able to cheaply, if not freely, expose their products and services to new customers, acquire fans and followers, and create an online place where engagement and communication can happen in real […]
Domain Cybersquatting: What to Do If Someone Is Profiting from a Misspelled Version of Your URL **Attorney Advertising **
Domain cybersquatting has unfortunately become a high ROI activity for bad faith actors who seek to steal and siphon traffic that would otherwise go to a legitimate company. These domain cybersquatters spend their time and resources buying up slightly misspelled or similar variation of a company’s URL in order to trick and deceive customers into […]
Patent License and Assignment Negotiation **Attorney Advertising**
After creating an invention or product and successfully completing the patent application process to obtain a registered patent, one of the most difficult parts of owning a patent is negotiating licenses and assignments. Licensing and/or assigning your patent is one of the best ways to monetize your patent, especially if you are not manufacturing or […]
USPTO is Seeing a Flood of Trademark Applications From China
Its has been reported recently that a large number of Chinese citizens or companies based in China are seeking trademarks in the US, flooding the US Patent and Trademark Office with applications. The Business Standard cites this surge is due to incentives the Chinese governments are providing to register trademarks in foreign countries and for Amazon brand registry. .. Having a trademark registered in the […]
Joint IP Development and Cross-Licensing **Attorney Advertising **
Companies may work together, using their best talent and leverage of their assets to create new products or methods that they jointly own. Joint Intellectual Property (“IP”) development can lead to advances otherwise unattainable by individual companies, but can be used exclusively by the two companies through cross-licensing agreements. However, making sure that an individual […]
Do I Need an Attorney to File for a Trademark or Copyright? **Attorney Advertising**
Blood, sweat, and tears went into the work you created, and now you’re ready to file for a trademark or copyright. After all, you want your intellectual property to have the protection a trademark or copyright can give it. And you may be wondering if you need an attorney to help you, or whether you […]
Similar Products, Different Patents **Attorney Advertising**
You’ve worked long and hard to create something new, and now you’re gearing up to apply for a patent. You know that you won’t be granted a patent if your invention isn’t unique, so you do a search for similar patents…and you find them. Now what? If you find a patent or design that is […]
Memes and Trademarks: It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Gets Hurt **Attorney Advertising **
Memes come in the form of humorous videos, graphics, or texts that are then shared and spread rapidly by internet users. And we’ve all giggled at a meme or two, but the person who developed the image or content that’s being altered or made fun of in the meme probably finds this less humorous. They […]
