Do you know the difference between a trademark and a service mark? The two concepts are very similar, but they’re not the same. Understanding the difference is important to properly protecting your intellectual property. A trademark is any word, symbol or device, or any combination of the preceding, used in commerce to distinguish and [...]
Copyright (c) 2009 Ask The Business LawyerPicture this: you’re renovating your home. . . and it looks like a bomb just hit: sawdust and sheetrock shrapnel is everywhere; wires and cables snake from the ceiling and along the open baseboards; cracked tile shards carpet the bathrooms and kitchen. You have a 7-month-old infant who [...]
What “word” or symbol will you choose for your trademark to distinguish your goods or services from those of another? Trademark selection can be very tricky. The goal is to choose a mark that is distinctive and will not be confusingly similar to someone else’s mark. At the same time, you want a [...]
Transfer the registered trademark is one of the most important ways for the registrant to deal with his trademark privileges, which means the trademark registrant transfers all the exclusive use of trademarks to others according to legal procedures. Registered trademark transfer is different from modification of name of registered trademark registrant. The original [...]
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Levi Strauss & Co. (LS&CO) is a privately held clothing company known worldwide for its Levi’s brand of denim jeans. It was founded in 1853 when Levi Strauss came from Bavaria, Germany to San Francisco, California to open a west coast branch of his brothers’ New York dry goods business. Although the [...]
Inventors should review hiring a top tier patent attorney, versus filing on their own or even worse doing nothing to protect their most important asset.
A patent is the property right given by the U. S Patent and Trademark Office to an inventor. It gives the inventor an exclusive right over the invention [...]
Chemical, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology companies spend large sums of money so that their employees burn the midnight oil and come up with great inventions, be it on a novel drug treat heart disease or a process to make large quantities of a chemical used in the manufacture of a plastic. They know that [...]
Biltmore Who’s Who Selects Cathy R. Joyner as this week’s Honored Member of the Executive and Professional Registry for 2009. Cathy R. Joyner, program analyst of the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), has been selected as an Honored Member of the Biltmore Who’s Who Executive and Professional Registry. [...]
Copyright: The legal right attached to literary, musical, dramatic or artistic works. Copyright automatically attaches to the piece in favor of the creator of it. To sue for copyright infringement, the creator must file for an official copyright from the Library of Congress.
Intellectual Property: A product or idea that has tangible commercial [...]
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