Trademark Registration
What’s in a name? Everything! The amount of time, effort and dollars you will spend in establishing the name of your company, product or service will be staggering. While it may not show on a balance sheet, your product and service names are enormously valuable to your company. Read More...
Copyright
Registration, while not required, is an extremely beneficial tool when it comes to copyright infringement. If your copyright is registered, you are able to recover attorney’s fees and it is always a good thing when the other party pays your attorney’s fees. Read More...
Licensing & Patents
A patent can be extremely valuable, provided it is brought to commercial viability. Often, the inventor of the patent finds that it makes the most financial sense to let third parties license, or use, the patent. Royalties from licensing, when structured correctly, have extremely profitable rates of return. Read More...
Confidential Disclosure Agreements
The most important assets of your 21st century business are often “intellectual assets.” Intellectual assets include your competitor analyses, your marketing plans, your customer profiles and your computer systems. In short, it is your business’s confidential information that provides your competitive advantage. Read More...
Information Technology - Protecting IT
IT has become a critical component of success for every business, and yet businesses all too often fail to adequately protect this critical component. Rather, they purchase hardware on standard purchase orders containing onerous vendor-favorable terms. Read More...
Website Analysis
A company’s website can be a powerful revenue producer if used correctly. However, if you fail to pay attention to the legal details of your website, it can also become an incredible liability when you are sued. Read More...
Non-Compete Agreements
In the employment arena, things are not what they used to be. It used to be that where an employee began working was where he or she retired. It used to be that employees hated your competitors and would never consider leaving to work for them. Unfortunately for your company, the way things used to be is no longer the way they are. Read More...
