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Trademark bullying, a troubling trend in intellectual property occurs when a trademark owner asserts its rights beyond reasonable bounds, often targeting smaller entities with legal threats or actions. This misuse of trademark enforcement tactics can stifle competition, deter innovation, and hinder legitimate uses of marks. It disproportionately impacts startups. Small businesses and individuals who lack Read More

There are treatises written on intellectual property valuation, and there are many different ways to do it. There, there’s a method which says, how did it change the market? What are the sales? There’s a part of it is what was the need for that product? And it, it’s quite complicated, and it’s an estimate. Read More

Intellectual property, be it patents, trademarks, copyrights, are property, and therefore there’s a value to them. And when you go to the bank to borrow money, or you have a merger, or you have people working for you, this becomes part of the value of your company. And an audit is where a particularly kind Read More

Trademark counterfeiting is when a third party sells goods under another party’s trademark. Trademark counterfeiting is a pervasive and detrimental practice that undermines the integrity of brands and possesses significant risk to consumers and businesses alike. Counterfeit goods are often of inferior quality and may pose health and safety hazards when compared to branded products. Read More

Copyrights and trademarks are both essential tools for protecting intellectual property, but they serve distinct purposes. A copyright safeguards original works of authorship, such as literary, artistic, and musical creations, providing exclusive rights to reproduce, distribute, and display the work. It protects the expression of ideas, rather than the ideas themselves. On the other hand, Read More

With certain products, it’s not possible to reverse engineer the product. For example, with Coca-Cola, everybody has tried, everybody knows what’s in Coca-Cola, but they don’t know how to get there. And so people come close, other people not so close, but the formula has never been revealed, and it’s gone decades and decades beyond Read More

A trade secret is quite different from a patent. A patent is a contract between you and the government, where the government says, if you tell us enough about your invention, so that your patent, after it expires, can show people how to make your invention, then for 20 years from the date of filing, Read More

Securing a copyright is paramount for safeguarding your creative works and ensuring that you have exclusive rights over their use and distribution. By obtaining a copyright, you establish legal proof of ownership, which is essential for protecting your intellectual property from unauthorized reproduction, distribution, or modification. This not only allows you to control how your Read More

Ideally, your trademark is a unique word or design. But what are your options if the mark is descriptive or contains geographic terms? This is where the Supplemental Register may be an option. The Supplemental Register serves as a gateway for trademarks not yet eligible for the Principal Register’s full protection. It offers valuable benefits Read More

An inventor is someone who has taken part in either the concept or the reduction to practice that is the making of an invention, which is completely different than ownership. Most inventions, in fact, are not owned by the inventor. The inventor is most likely an engineer that works for a big company and he’s Read More