Intellectual Property


How to Protect Your Invention

Advice and tips on how to protect a new invention from copycats and competitors

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How to File for a Patent

This step-by-step guide describes the legal process of filing for a patent.

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Protecting Yourself From Copycat Competitors

Using trade dress and trademarks to protect your intellectual property

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Find It. Use It.

It's a good bet your company possesses intellectual property it isn't exploiting. Here's how to identify those assets and turn them into new business.

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Relax. Let Your Guard Down

Why patents, trademarks, and other intellectual property protections are bad--that's right, bad--for business.

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Recent Intellectual Property Articles

A Besieged Brewery Fights Back

Rock Art Brewery is embroiled in a trademark war with the beverage giant Hansen over the name of the brewery's Vermonster beer.  Read story

Supreme Court Reexamines Patent Laws

A reversal of the earlier decision that business methods are not patentable could likely change the face of business.  Read story

How to Guard Against Patent Infringement

Once you've received patent protection, enforcing it is mostly your job. Here's how.  Read story

Is Your Patent Safe?

Supreme Court asked to hear a case that would determine whether business methods in any industry are patentable.  Read story

Talk about Some Bad Hires

In September 2005, we wrote about Jonathan Hoffman, who had sued an ex-employee of his company, School Zone Publishing, for copyright infringement.  Read story

Can You Spot the Real Utube?

Millions of Web surfers couldn't, so now there's a lawsuit.  Read story

Case Study: How to Handle a Rogue Licensee

George Schenk's largest licensee had his own ideas about running his restaurant. Was it time to cut him loose?  Read story

Ask Inc.

Deciding whether to hire a PR agency; making prototypes.  Read story

How to Stop Intellectual Property Theft in China

America's most innovative industries are being robbed every day on the floors of Chinese factories. Here's how to make it stop.  Read story

Great Moments In Patent History

With the blockbuster BlackBerry settlement and a case involving eBay before the Supreme Court, the dowdy world of patent law is suddenly hot.  Read story

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