by Bruce Ramsey | Oct 14, 2010 | Articles
Use It Right or Lose It — Proper Trademark Usage Is Important to Every Business Nowadays, almost every business has a trademark or service mark. With any luck your mark is memorable to the public and helps in the sale of your products and/or services. You probably...
by Bruce Ramsey | Apr 10, 2010 | Articles
Guidelines for Use and Protection of Trademarks A trademark is a word, name, or symbol, or a combination of these, (or in very rare cases a color, sound, or other device) adopted and used by a company to identify its products (e.g., sneakers or software) and to...
by Bruce Ramsey | Apr 10, 2009 | Articles
Guidelines for Protecting Patentable Inventions A patent for an invention is the grant of a property right to the inventor, issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office or another country’s analogous authority. The term of a new patent in the United States is 20...
by Bruce Ramsey | Jan 9, 2009 | Articles, Featured Article
Copyright Ruling Limits Use of Freelance Material Do Your Contracts Give You the Right to Use Material as Intended? It is easy for a small local or regional business to overlook a court ruling, especially when the ruling involves Fortune 500 companies. One such ruling...
