New Year Legal Check-List: 2020
NEW YEAR THOUGHTS: We would like to express our thanks to our many clients, colleagues and friends who helped to make 2019 a terrific year. We would also like to extend our best wishes to our readers for a happy, healthy & prosperous 2020! We do what we do because we like it and because we want to make a difference. But we could not do it without all of you. NEW YEAR LEGAL CHECK-UP: With the new year upon us, the following is a list of ten suggestions for starting it off right by putting some of your professional and business affairs in order. Not all suggestions may be applicable to all readers, but they are designed to provide a framework for planning ahead. Make your own additions to…
What is “IP”?
People often come to us knowing they want to protect something of theirs, but they are not quite sure what it is. Sometimes they will say: "I want to patent my idea". Or…. "I want to trademark the title of my book". However they say it, what they are trying to say is: "I have an idea or something I created that I want to protect". At the end of the day, we know that there is some form of intellectual property (“IP”) protection that can help them. Intellectual property law has been described as the law pertaining to products of the intellect such as inventions (patents), creative content (copyrights), brand names (trademarks), and secret formulas and processes (trade secrets). Essentially there are four basic intellectual property tools: A patent…