One aspect of online business that is particularly difficult to grapple with is copyright, be it, use of content from other sites, or copyright relating to photographs and images or other issues. The misinformation that surroun...
February 28, 2011
In deciding whether to file a trademark application to protect your domain name, the first step is to determine whether you use your domain name as a trademark. If your domain name is only used as the Uniform Resource Locator (“U...
March 11, 2011
How safe is your twitter account username? Today I discovered that Twitter transferred the account #girlgeeks to the trade mark owner of the name even though the latter had only registered a logo mark incorporating the words (see imag...
A key to differentiating a business is having an offering or a way of doing business that is unique to you, so you stand out from your competitors. See my personal blog for differentiating a law firm
Your differentiating propos...
In this post I’m going to offer some information that I think might be quite useful to you when you’re establishing a new business or product.
You’re likely to be thinking about a name, commissioning a website and logo to lau...
Of all the IP laws, copyright is the most wide-ranging in scope and application. However, there is confusion as to whether copyright protects underlying ideas. Does it protect ideas incorporated in a piece of writing, or a fi...
When a key player in the Government’s plans to strengthen the IP framework, encourages business owners to file their own trade marks, explaining this is to help them afford trade mark registration, I wonder what’s going on.
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Nowadays there is increasing awareness about the value of “intellectual property” and brands. Yet “intellectual property” is a term that alienates many people because they don’t understand what it means or how it applies to th...
February 26, 2010
Shireen Smith describes why Trade Marks are important in helping to protect your brand and the best way to go about registering one.
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December 1, 2009
When I wrote the introduction to my proposed new book in early November Why Web 2.0 Brand Protection Requires Online Brand Promotion, I hoped to publish this chapter shortly afterwards. Needless to say, life got in the way, and i...
Some entrepreneurs regard Intellectual Property Rights as irrelevant to what they are aiming to achieve, while others are overly mindful of IP rights, even to the point of treating them as an end in themselves.
Acquiring rights th...
What do people actually understand about Intellectual Property? Most people’s knowledge of IP law often comes from high profile cases featuring disputes between household names.
You might have read about Dyson’s dispute with ...
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