So why is the standard will, drafted by a general attorney, insufficient to properly transfer patent and trademark ownership?
It comes down to three
Let’s look at the specific risks of poor intellectual property succession planning. These are the ghosts of your assets that haunt your legacy if you
Most people think of their IP like a regular asset that upon their death will either transfer automatically or be handled easily by the executor
The thesis today is simple, yet alarming: A standard will and skimpy business operation documents can be a death sentence for your most valuable intellectual
Once you’ve invented that brilliant gadget or coined that killer brand name, who do you hire to protect it? The choices can feel like a
Fatal mistakes are often made when people unfamiliar with patent and trademark law leave that kind of intellectual property to people in their will or
Not having provisions about control of your business’ intellectual property in your business operating documents is a grave mistake in intellectual property protection.
When
What’s the intellectual property horror lurking in the closet that gets overlooked the most? We’ve talked about how patents, trademarks, and trade dress are all
The most powerful strategy for protecting the design of a physical product is the dual protection of a design patent and trade dress.
Both design patents and trade dress have one unfortunate thing in common: functionality of the design can be a killer.
You cannot protect a
Trade Dress is a type of trademark that protects the overall look and feel of a product or its packaging. It’s the brand’s persistent visual
How do you protect how your product looks? Today we’re tackling the Two-Headed Monster of Design IP: design patents and trade dress trademarks. This is
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