by Tichelle Sorensen
Social networking sites are an incredibly important marketing vehicle, especially for small companies or those whose model relies upon viral or similar marketing or promotion. Using sites such as Facebook, Myspace, and Twitter has become a key component of most marketing plans. Which makes it even more crucial for companies’ to be aware [...]
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Article 1: The Venue
by Brooklyn Baggett
Law Clerk
Being in a band is more complicated than just playing music you love. If you want to make money as a band, you must all know that. A band is a business, and band members who treat it as such have greater success, make more money, and keep [...]
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by Martin Medeiros
You read your morning mail. You notice a letter with the operative words “cease and desist,” “infringement,” or perhaps the more affable “invitation to license.” You think a “troll” has targeted you.
The pejorative term “patent troll” is often used to describe the sender of the type of letter described above. However, the term [...]
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Our annual intellectual property metrics show dramatic increases in some types of intellectual property grants and increasing litigation for copyright. Click here to look at all the data graphs.
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Posted in Trademark / Branding on Mar 18th, 2008
by Martin Medeiros
A United States trademark protects a word, symbol, sound, device, or any combination thereof that is used as a source identifier for goods or in association with services. In the latter case, the source identifier is sometimes called a service mark.
Choosing a “strong” mark can help to avoid many problems in the future. [...]
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by Martin Medeiros
The value of intellectual property (copyright, trademark, trade secret and patent) is subject to debate, but one dimension of the debate is beyond discussion. Intellectual property is increasing in value. Based on the percentage of the market value of a company, intellectual property is the highest valued asset of the publicly traded companies. In fact, [...]
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By Eric van Naerssen
How does one comply or file under the Madrid protocol? Commercial marks—such as trademarks, trade names, service marks or "brands"—are how a business gains recognition and trust in the marketplace. The mark indicates the source of goods or services within a geographic area. Most nations have built institutions, such as the United [...]
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Proper Grammar and Usage of Entity Names, Trade Names, Assumed Business Names and Trade Marks in Oregon
By Martin F. Medeiros[1]
Once an entrepreneur decides on a name, they must consider how to maximize the value of that name. They may do several things with it. Lately, the first thing they do is get the universal resource [...]
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