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Trademarks

Time to Think About Year-End Business Legal Planning

Intellectual Property Does your business own intellectual property (IP), like registered trademarks or patents? Trademark registrations expire, but can be renewed. Patents also expire. You should know when your IP registrations expire and be prepared to renew the registrations. If you used an attorney to obtain your registrations, your attorney should notify you of upcoming […]

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What is Intellectual Property?

It is important for business owners to protect their intellectual property. Intellectual property (IP) refers to the intangible, often creative, parts of your business, such as symbols, business logos, designs, inventions, and written works. IP law provides legal protection for your business’s intangible creations by stopping competitors from stealing your ideas and enabling your business

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Protect Your Brand

You can picture it: the bright red background, across which “Coca-Cola” is written in its iconic curling white script. Instant identification. Your brain associates the trademark with the brand. A trademark is a simple concept—a symbol and/or word(s) that is a protected embodiment of your brand and a crucial piece of your company’s identity. It

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Protecting Your Product Design Through Trade Dress and Design Patents

I’ve been asked about this often from clients in certain industries, particularly in the furniture industry: How can we stop competitors from copying our product design? Trade dress refers to protection for the totality of elements of a product – including size, shape, color or color combination, texture, graphics, etc. Trade dress is protectible if

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