What Is Patent Portfolio Management? Learn how companies align patent filings, prosecution, maintenance, budgets, and enforcement with business strategy.
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What Is Patent Licensing? Learn how patent licenses work, key agreement terms, royalties, exclusivity, enforcement, and strategies for commercializing patents.
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What Is Patent Due Diligence? Learn how companies evaluate patent ownership, scope, status, licenses, risks, costs, and business value in transactions.
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What Is an International Patent Strategy? Learn how companies prioritize foreign patent filings, use the PCT process, manage costs, and protect key markets.
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What Is a Utility Patent? Learn what it protects, patentability requirements, how claims define rights, filing strategy, patent term, and business value.
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Can Artificial Intelligence Be an Inventor on a Patent? Learn how U.S. law treats AI-assisted inventions, human conception, ownership, and inventorship.
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How Much Does a Patent Cost? Learn what drives patent application, attorney, USPTO, prosecution, international filing, maintenance, and portfolio costs.
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What Is a Patent Opinion and When Does a Company Need One? Learn how patent opinions evaluate infringement, validity, freedom to operate, and business risk.
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How Do You Develop a Patent Enforcement Strategy? Learn how companies assess infringement, patent strength, remedies, costs, risks, and enforcement options.
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What Is a Design Patent? Learn what design patents protect, why drawings define the claim, how long rights last, and when design protection adds business value.
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Learn how companies can protect trade secrets when employees use generative AI through policies, approved tools, access controls, training, contracts, and incident response. Protecting trade secrets when employees use AI may be essential to legal rights.
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Protecting recipes requires thinking beyond the ingredient list to the broader presentation, branding, and confidentiality surrounding a food creation. By strategically using copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and potentially patents, creators can safeguard different aspects of their culinary innovations while balancing cost, disclosure, and long-term business goals.
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There are multiple steps business can implement to systematically stop knockoffs, piracy, and infringement in order to recover lost revenue, protect brand value, and ultimately increase market share through strategic use of trademarks, copyrights, patents, and related enforcement tools.
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Copyrighted content is owned by the party (a human) who initially creates the original work in a tangible format. Whether a business owns content will depend on the nature of the employment relationship with the party creating the content and, in some cases, whether written agreements have been executed naming the business as the owner of the copyright. Read post for an explanation of typical copyright ownership issues and how to avoid them.
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Take these six steps to protect your brand in 2025: (1) be wary of trademark scams; (2) protect against knockoffs; (3) consider “brand gating;” (4) police the market; (5) create enforcement policies; and (6) take social media infringement and dilution seriously.
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Where available, securing both trademark and copyright registration for a logo provides additional protection and benefits, including the ability to bring two separate causes of action in an infringement suit and the potential for two separate damages awards.
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Federal registration of a logo can provide added benefits, but you’ll need to avoid common pitfalls and should employ these keys to success to secure registration.
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Doing business in foreign countries can create risk to your trademark ownerships there. These steps can help reduce that risk.
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Trademark scams are increasing in occurrence and sophistication. These basic tips can help you identify some of the most common types of scams.
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Thorough witness preparation goes beyond memorizing rules, it requires understanding stress responses, managing non-verbal behavior, and anticipating real-world examination tactics. While outcomes can never be fully controlled, disciplined preparation and strategic rehearsal can significantly improve testimony and reduce the risk of damaging surprises.
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