Tag Archives: trademarks and copyrights

Registration & Contracts: Formal Protection for Your Trademarks, Copyrights, and Trade Secrets

Posted on 01. Dec, 2008 by Elizabeth Potts Weinstein.

1

When and how should you formally protect your intellectual property using registration and contracts?
For the Big Ideas that are most important to your business, you should be willing to spend some money obtaining higher levels of protection.  This includes the name of your business, the name(s) of your flagship products and services, the content of [...]

Continue Reading

Your Trademarks and Copyrights: 6 Cheap and Easy Ways to Protect Your Stuff

Posted on 17. Oct, 2008 by Elizabeth Potts Weinstein.

0

Your business has value and makes money primarily due to its intellectual property, including your trademarks and copyrights.  I don’t care if you cut hair, write copy, manage money, clean houses, create websites, sell insurance, sell t-shirts, coach executives, or manufacture computers; what you actually are marketing and selling are ideas.  
To be able to [...]

Continue Reading

Copyright and Trademark: What’s the difference between trademarks and copyrights?

Posted on 28. Jul, 2007 by Elizabeth Potts Weinstein.

1

Copyrights and trademarks are both intellectual property rights that you may own as a business owner or entrepreneur.  But many new business owners are confused about the role of each right in their business, and what the differences are between these property rights.
A trademark is a word(s) or symbol you use in commerce in conjunction [...]

Continue Reading