When you’re filing a trademark application, it goes into what we call different classes. There are 45 different classes of trademarks, and these classes are determined at international level. All this means is that different types of goods or services...
Read moreShould you register your book’s name as a trademark? As a trademark attorney, I hesitate to say no, but the truth is, if you are registering a trademark or books, it generally would be for the publication of the book...
Read moreSo, you want to register your brand as a trademark, not a company name or a business name or a domain name, we’re talking about a trademark on the trademarks register. Trademarks are geographically based, so if you register a...
Read moreIs it worth the cost of getting your trademark registered? Well, I like to look at cost versus value and I also like to look at what would the cost of not getting the trademark registered be? Your trademark is Read more…
The legal myth we are busting today is that you can say anything you want about anybody, as long as it’s true. Some people think that the truth is defense to defamation, now that may be true in some countries Read more…
Today I’m busting the legal myth in a small business relating to copyright ownership and metadata embedded into images. This is a new one, I heard about it after doing a talk recently. One of the members of the audience Read more…
The legal myth that we are busting today relates to images on your website. This happened to a friend of mine, She had a web designer design a site for her five years ago, then five years later she received Read more…
The legal myth I’m doing today is amazing, because I didn’t even know about it! I found this out after I’d been running my own business for about two years. If lawyers don’t know this , then you’d better listen Read more…
The legal myth that we’re busting in small business today is that if you find something on the internet and it’s not attributed then you can use it. What I’m talking about might be blog posts, it might be comments Read more…
The legal myth that we are busting today, is about who owns a company. I’m doing this myth because one of my clients and her partner, who by the end of the sad story, was her ex-partner, were in business Read more…