FAQ: What is Trade Dress?
Trade dress is an area of trademark law that is often overlooked. Many business owners and entrepreneurs are familiar with copyrights and trademarks, but very few realize how valuable a trade dress can be in terms of protecting and defining their brand.
Trade dress capitalizes on the...
Patent Inventorship vs. Ownership: Distinctive Concepts
A lot of times, a person or a team works on a project in a company and never see the money side of their creation.
If inventors are deemed special in the patent world, what are the rights of those researchers? How about the rights of the company or...
How to Trademark a Business Name
“How to trademark a business name?” is a question I hear from my clients quite frequently. To a trademark attorney’s ear the client is asking to register their business entity (Widgets, Inc.).
What the client is really saying is that they want to “federally register my company’s brand.” The...
Continuation & Divisional Patent Applications – Build a Patent Family!
Well, you see two single young patents meet up with one another, sparks fly...and before long, they get married, and have a bunch of patent children crawling around!
... I hope you’re laughing, or at least scoffing at my cheesy...
What’s the Difference Between Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights, and Trade Secrets?
As you probably guessed, a LOT! … well, at least to an Intellectual Property (IP) Attorney like me.
From where I stand, the differences are MASSIVE. But to you, these terms may seem like legalese that all blends together…
Plus, with social media, news outlets,...