Selling Your Company? The Exit Strategy That Doesn’t Involve Giving Up Your IP Rights

Determining how best to monetize your intellectual property should take into account the IP owner’s desired goals and future plans. Before deciding on an exit strategy, understand the nature of the technology, the patent landscape, and the path towards continued success.

Patent Tips to protect against product copycats

Worried About Product Copycats? 5 Patent Tips to Get Ahead of the Fast Followers

When your idea is really, really good, it’s almost inevitable that someone is going to copy it. Retroactive legal action is difficult and expensive, so follow these patent tips to get ahead of product copycats, knockoffs, and fast followers.

Cybersquatting: What To Do When Someone Is Holding Your Brand’s Domain Hostage

Just because someone else owns a domain with your trademark or brand name in it doesn’t mean it’s cybersquatting. Domain investing is permitted, so long is there is no bad faith intent, which can be a fine line.

Keeping Competitors Away From Your Game-changing Product

Clients see a competing product with similar functionality to their own and immediately believe it’s a copy, even if the competitor developed the functionality independently. At that point, they don’t care how the attorneys deal with the situation — the attorneys are expected to find a way to shut down the knockoff.