Intellectual Property

We both have active trademark practices and are constantly evaluating whether a client’s proposed trademark is available for use for that client’s goods or services. We review a lot of trademarks. While brands are valuable and very important for a business, we do our best to steer our clients away from difficulties that are ancillary to their primary mission –

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) – nothing could be more topical. Everyone has been writing about COVID-19 for months since there is little other news. No sports events to recap. No concerts or plays to critique. No craft brewery or restaurant experiences to review. No celebrity hook-up/spit-up drama to report. But hey, we are magazine columnists and obliged to fill the

Thankfully, clients are always asking us questions. For example, a client might ask, “Can I copyright this video?” or “. . . this photograph?” or “. . . this hat design?” We hear about disputes over music copyrights and copyrighting songs in entertainment news all the time. As IP lawyers, we understand what our clients are asking (and even occasionally,

Your client wants to make money by selling a product or rendering some service – or maybe some new century combination of both now commonly referred to as SAAS (“software as a service”). In any event, your client will want the relevant consuming public to be able to readily spot its product or service in our crowded, noisy 21st century

The currently riotous political climate in the USA tends to overwhelm our awareness about political controversies in other countries. There is only so much news the American public can take in, which limits the space and airtime devoted to political issues in other countries. However, everyone has heard about Brexit – Britain’s exit from the European Union. Actually, it is

Human beings are amazing! Collectively, we are clever and excel at many things. We have harnessed fire, invented the wheel, eradicated noxious diseases, created the internet (and smart phones so we are never without it), and put a man on the moon! We are good at lots of stuff, but there is one thing that none of us is very