Intellectual Property
Protect your work from copycats. Learn the difference between trademarks, copyrights, and patents so you can safeguard your intellectual property.
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When Is the Right Time to Trademark Your Brand?
The best business strategy is to think about trademarks from the very beginning—ideally, when you're choosing your business name and logo and forming your business entity.
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Can I Use an Abandoned Trademark?
Trademarks are alive—they grow, they change, and sometimes they die.
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Lifestyle Influencers: How to Protect Your Intellectual Property
Whether you're just learning how to start a blog or you've already got a dedicated blog readership, you should know about copyrights and trademarks, so that your work will be protected.
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The Reality of Protecting Your Company's Secrets
Patents are the building blocks of innovation. But there are a lot of things a patent can't do.
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How Do You Know if a Patent Already Exists?
Your invention has to bring something new and unique to the table, or it can’t get a patent. The patent process begins by searching for similar patents.
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Do You Lose Your Copyright When Your Work Is Translated?
You've written what is sure to be a hit song according to your record company, but the producers want to test it out in a foreign market first - your producers hired a translator. Will your subtle lyrics and your copyright get lost in translation? Unfortunately, that's just what happened to Brazilian bossa nova legend Antonio Carlos Jobim, according to his family's lawsuit against Universal Studios Inc. and Universal Music Publishing Group. Jobim's widow and children claim the rights to his songs were wrongly assigned to Norman Gimbel, the man who translated them from Portuguese into English.
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