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For several years, Stephen Colbert occupied a unique and arguably necessary spot in our popular culture. While his fellow Comedy Central late night host Jon Stewart mixed his comedy with earnest, solemn rebukes of perceived shortcomings and failures of our political system, Colbert’s critiques came from satire as he played his over-the-top, blowhard newsman character toContinue reading “Stephen Colbert in Intellectual Property Dispute with Viacom”

Registering your trademarks provides creators with a number of different benefits, chief among those being the ability to take legal action against potential infringement.  And given the amount of theft that is seen surrounding trademarked material, that’s nothing to be taken lightly. But one unconsidered benefit to having your trademarks on the books with the federalContinue reading “Social Media Offers  Limited Remedies for Trademark Infringement”

Even when you’ve taken the necessary precautions to try and prevent theft, there are still going to be those who try and use your work, thinking that they won’t get caught given the sheer size of the internet. Having your website’s artwork or copy copied at a computer somewhere in the world isn’t quite asContinue reading “Intellectual Property and the Challenges of Technology, Part 2”

Technology has given us more access to available information and an incredible ability to disseminate our own messages. The internet allows us to see stories and pictures and videos from all over the world from the comfort of our devices, and the phone in our pocket can capture our experiences with high quality pictures andContinue reading “Intellectual Property and the Challenges of Technology”

For small law firms, trying to develop and sustain success has become more than just trying to add more clients. There are plenty of firms that are able to bring in clients and yet still find themselves failing in the long run. In order to establish success that is sustainable, more and more small law firmsContinue reading “Small Law Firm KPIs: How to Measuer Your Way to Greater Profits”

In our fourth installment on avoiding failure to launch in our series from David Durick of Paychex’s workshop at the Small Business Expo 2016, we talk about critical steps five and six: putting yourself on payroll and online marketing.

This is a guest blog from author Brette Sember.

The third in our series based on attending David Durick of Paychex’s workshop at the Small Business Expo 2016 examines the third and fourth of the ten critical steps to building and protecting your business. If you are not sure which steps apply to you, please join Traklight here and take the free Business Risk Assessment withContinue reading “Avoid Failure to Launch: Part III”

Technology has brought about a new slate of intellectual property issues that see corporations facing off in court. Google and Oracle were engaged in a lengthy court battle over the use of Java APIs in Google’s development of Android software, and numerous other companies have taken legal action against their rivals for similarly unseen elements used inContinue reading “Patent Infringement Case Between Cisco and Arista Presses Forward”

In Part II of our series based on attending David Durick of Paychex’s workshop at the Small Business Expo 2016, we will dive deeper into the first two of the ten critical steps to building and protecting your business.