Author Archives: mwillee

When you’re starting your business, it’s natural to want to focus on the things that you want to do and accomplish and put some of the more tedious chores to the back-burner. You are the innovator, the dreamer, and what creative wants to be bogged down with the nitty-gritty of paperwork and forms and contracts?Continue reading “What Issues Do Startups Face?”

When we purchase something, we assume that the item becomes ours, to do with it as we so choose. That is the understanding and agreement that exists between buyer and seller in most transactions that take place. If you go to your local department store and buy a toaster and decide to run over itContinue reading “Electronic Freedom Foundation Goes to Court Over Digital Millenium Copyright Act”

There’s a lot that goes into starting a business. Aside from obvious considerations as to what you’re going to do or make or sell, you have to think about the branding of your business. What are you going to call yourself? What kind of logo will you have? It isn’t enough to settle on the firstContinue reading “Expansion Franchise Runs Into Trademark Issues in Las Vegas”

The internet can seem at times a terrible, negative place, but it can also be a tremendous resource for collaboration and sharing. People the world over are willing to take the time and effort to create fantastic works of art, photography and video, and many are willing to share them with everyone with no desireContinue reading “Italian Festival In Trouble for Improper Attribution”

This is a guest blog from John Boruvka of Iron Mountain’s Intellectual Property Management unit, originally featured on the Iron Mountain blog. 

The past few month have seen a spate of trademark and copyright filings that some would argue border on the absurd. Several entities have either attempted to trademark or pursued legal action related to trademarks that many would consider to be fairly broad, generic terms or phrases. Perhaps most famously, YouTube personalities tried to trademarkContinue reading “Citigroup and AT&T Locked in Trademark Battle”

As a tech company, we love seeing young people with a passion and interest in the technology sector. It’s not a stretch to say that technology is not only the future of our economy, but of humans as a species. Tech will enable us to accomplish things we had never before dreamed possible, and it’sContinue reading “AZ Great Code Challenge Launches Version 2.0”

This article originally appeared on the GoDaddy blog. 

This article originally appeared on the GoDaddy blog. 

You can read Part 1 here.