Author Archives: Jean Niehues

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.

This article originally appeared on the GoDaddy blog.

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?”

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”