3 Reasons to Have an Estate Plan for Your Business
If you are a business owner, it is important that you have a carefully crafted estate plan for your business. Since we can’t predict the future, you want to know ...
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Dunlap, Bennett & Ludwig Expands on its Estate Planning Services
Rhonda A. Miller joins the Northern Virginia offices of DBL Vienna, VA (September 26, 2018) – Dunlap Bennett & Ludwig, a leading corporate and intellectual property law firm with law offices across the ...
DECIDING HOW SIMILAR, SIMILAR IS
A trademark is a creative, unique, identifying symbol that helps the end user to identify a product or service. The symbol can be a word or design, or both. There ...
USPTO Loses and Brunetti gets FUCT
The USPTO’s decision to deny Erik Brunetti the right to register the trademark FUCT was reversed by the Federal Circuit. Why is this news? This cases stretches the frontiers of ...
The Top 15 Reasons to Register a Mark
As many already know, a proper trademark or service mark registration provides the holder with the exclusive right to use the mark in commerce as well as the right to ...
EU COURT SLAM DUNKS NEW ORLEANS PELICANS’ CASE
With the rise of e-commerce and globalization, protecting your intellectual property assets becomes more important and defined. However, the process of protecting your trademark overseas comes with unique challenges and ...
How TCJA Affects Personal Causality Deductions
With hurricane Florence coming ashore later this week, DBL thought it would be a good time to explain the new application of personal casualty loss under the Tax Cuts and ...
Insider Trading at the Second Circuit
Insider Trading Law Explained Neither Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 nor Rule 10b-5 of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) expressly forbids insider trading. Nevertheless, insider ...
Federal Circuit Rules Against Telebrands in Balloon Patent Case
In the ongoing patent infringement claim involving our client, Tinnus Enterprises LLC, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has denied Telebrands Corp.’s motion to dismiss the case. ...
Patent Monetization Strategies for Small Businesses and Independent Inventors
Patent monetization is the generation of revenue by selling or licensing patents. Patent applications can be expensive. Independent inventors and small businesses, such as startups, need to spend their money ...