What Kind of Trademark Search Do You Need?
By Sara Lipowitz, Attorney, DBL Fort Collins, CO You may have heard that you don’t have to formally trademark your brand to start using it. While this is true, it ...
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5 Steps to Get Started on Your Estate Plan
By Linda Graham, Partner, DBL Fort Collins, CO Establishing a comprehensive estate plan can help you feel more confident about the future and ensure that your loved ones will be ...
What is a Trademark “Specimen” and Why is it Important?
A trademark specimen is a real-world example of your brand being used to identify your goods or services (e.g., a photograph of a t-shirt with your brand name on ...
How to Handle a Trademark Opposition
Receiving a Notice of Publication is perhaps one of the most exciting and gratifying parts of the trademark process short of getting an actual Registration Certificate. Now that you have ...
Proceed with Caution When Dealing with International Sale of Goods Contracts
By Brian Shrader, Partner, DBL (Tampa) A breach of a business agreements relating to the sale of goods between international parties can raise unique complications. Language translation, social norms, terms ...
Trademark Formats: Words vs. Designs vs. Word & Design Combinations
Ownership of a brand often includes several trademark claims, such as a claim to a logo, a claim to a slogan, a claim to a design, or a claim ...
Keys to Defending Corporate Fraud
Corporate fraud involves the intentional misrepresentation of company activities or financial information in order to mislead the public and increase company profits. Corporate fraud has become increasingly common in ...
The Principal Register or the Supplemental Register: What’s Best for Your Trademark?
Until you decided to apply for trademark protection, you probably weren’t aware that the federal government has two different trademark registries: The Principal Register and the Supplemental Register. Though ...
Protecting Your Trademark
By Mary Beaghler Penn, Dunlap Bennett & Ludwig You’ve just invented a new gizmo and want to protect your prized product from being knocked off the front page of ...
What to Know About Patent Protection for Your New Medical and Healthcare Design
By Thomas Dunlap (This article originally appeared in Healthcare Business Today). As research, development and growth continues in medical device and new healthcare technologies, the need to patent ideas ...