Many people are now considering opening up their own business. Besides, owning your very own business can provide more freedom and at the same time, it can generate income for you and your family. This is the reason why [...]
Unfair competition refers to illegal commercial activity ranging from trademark infringement to false advertising. As any other state, California has formulated its own law, the California Unfair Competition Law to protect the business sector and its consumer. The California Unfair Competition Law defined this illicit performance as:? Any unlawful business act or practice? Unfair business [...]
Today, celebrity and workplace privacy is being invaded on a daily basis. The right of celebrities to privacy is constantly being abused through the misappropriation by others of their name (or one confusingly similar to it), likeness and images. The right of publicity, the right to control the commercial use of their identity, [...]
Even if you don’t live in a town with a professional sports team like San Diego, California or Los Angeles, CA, it is likely you still have at least amateur sports teams in almost every city of Orange County, and even if your city just has high school teams in La Jolla, Del Mar, Encinitas, [...]
In these difficult economic times, new businesses are much riskier to try, but there is no more lucrative an area even in the current conditions than for an inventor or designer who can create a new invention or process and who can afford to have it patented.
Whether you live in San Diego, Orange County, [...]
The question being asked by people in these difficult economic times for small business owners is how can a person make money in this tough economy? New businesses are much riskier to try, and new business loans have all but evaporated. But there is no more lucrative an area, even in the current conditions, [...]
As a technology and intellectual property attorney in La Jolla, Carlsbad, San Diego, California, Irvine, Newport Beach, Orange County, CA, Rancho Cucamonga, Ontario and the Palm Springs and Palm Desert area, like many who remain hopeful for the future, new developments in technology are constantly catching one’s eye. Whenever current affairs, such as [...]
No matter where you live or try to make a living in Southern California, from Westminster and Mission Viejo to Murrieta and Temecula, from San Diego to Orange County, from Fullerton to Fontana, from Irvine to Anaheim and Rancho Cucamonga to Ontario, from Palm Springs to Indio, to La Quinta, Garden Grove and Corona del [...]
If you are an inventor, a writer, a musician or a designer, it doesn’t matter if you live in Murrieta, California, San Diego, CA, Mission Viejo, Carlsbad, La Jolla, Westminster, Orange County, Anaheim, Orange, Irvine, Escondido, San Luis Obispo, Rancho Cucamonga, Ontario, Huntington Beach, Temecula or Palm Springs, Palm Desert, or Indian Wells, CA, the [...]
Creation of the Right of Publicity in California The ?right of publicity? is generally defined as the right to control or prevent the unauthorized use or commercial exploitation of one?s name, likeness, voice or ?personality. ?[1] The right of publicity evolved from the right of privacy, which itself has evolved dramatically over more than a [...]