It’s not unlikely that an inventor will eventually come across the topic of patent license agreements. Patent license agreements are commonly used to help develop and commercialize patented items and can be a great source of revenue for the patent owner, spurring...
Venture capitalist Mark Suster recently wrote a great post on startups and lawsuits (and the logic can apply to businesses that aren’t traditionally considered “startups”) and since thrust of his post seems to be about how to keep startups out of court, I wanted to...
Last night I was talking to a friend, who also happens to be a designer launching her own venture – she wanted to know more about legal protection of intellectual property. It’s a topic that I have talked about on this blog in a few other posts, but I wanted to share...
There are a few ways to stop a cybersquatter – a cybersquatter being a person who has illegally purchased a domain name associated with your brand or trademark in order to sell it to you for a high price. One popular method of stopping cybersquatters is to use ICANN’s...
What goes into the artist gallery contract that will govern the relationship between an artist and that artist’s dealer? There are many things, but there will always be a set of fundamentals that should be included in every artist gallery contract. Keep in mind, also,...
Craft beer is awesome, but a rising tide of craft beer trademark disputes is not nearly as awesome. With the happy proliferation of new breweries has come a little bit of a proliferation of trademark disputes over the names of beers and breweries. That’s enough to...
