Other IP

Bankruptcy, trade secrets, domain squatters. What do all of these issues have in common? They are all part of the intellectual property law rubric. Findlaw has a number of articles to help you wade through the IP law maze. For instance, the intermingling between IP and bankruptcy law has increased over the past couple of years as more companies utilize intellectual property . You can also find information on domain names including what to do after you decide on a name such as purchasing it from a registrar, or look for a hosting provider that can do it for you—many hosts offer this as part of your hosting account package.

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Other IP Articles

Managing Your Cross-Border Transactions

Cross-border mergers and acquisitions, although presenting many of the same issues as domestic deals, are usually more complex and rife with surprises and other pitfalls. In recent years this complexity has grown along with the pace of ...
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Marketing “Security”: Ten Ways to Protect Your Marketing Intellectual Property

During World War II, the government created a poster that showed a man swimming for his life as a boat sank behind him. The caption read: "A slip of the lip can sink a ship." The moral: don't tell government secrets, you could endanger soldiers ...
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Marks Composed, In Whole Or In Part, Of Domain Names

A domain name is part of a Uniform Resource Locator (URL), which is the address of a site or document on the Internet. In general, a domain name is comprised of a second-level domain, a "dot," and a top-level domain (TLD). The wording to the left ...
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Naming Your Product or Service

Naming your company, product or service is an important task. Good branding dictates that names convey who you are and what you provide. "A rose by any other name is still a rose," but consumers remember and recognize you by your name. In addition ...
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Navigating the Tangled Tributary of Transactional Intellectual Property Law

Intellectual property law is the moniker that covers those intangible personal property rights that are the product of mental creative processes. The litigation of patent, trademark and copyright rights gets all the press, but the acquisition of ...
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New Developments In Assessing Customs Duties On Royalty For Imported Goods In China

Following China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in December 2001, the Customs General Administration of the People's Republic of China promulgated Measures of the People's Republic of China Customs on Examination and Determination ...
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New Media: An Essential Primer

Intellectual property ("IP") law enables the developers of ideas, inventions, designs, artistic and literary works, and information to prevent others from appropriating them without permission, and therefore makes it possible for the developer to ...
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New Weapons In The War Against Cybersquatters

If you had wanted information about Bill Bradley's bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, you may have gone to the Internet to get information about his campaign. If you typed in "www.bradleyforpresident.com," however, you were greeted with ...
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Ninth Circuit Prohibits Infringing Domain Names and Meta Tags, But Expressly Allows Fair Use in Meta Tags and on Web Sites

Breaking new ground for trademark protection on the internet, the Ninth Circuit's recent decision in Brookfield Communications, Inc. v. West Coast Entertainment Corporation, 1999 U.S. App. LEXIS 7779 (9th Cir. 1999), clarified rules for establishing ...
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Omnibus IP Legislation Dies with Adjournment of 104th Congress

The latter portion of 1996 brought with it the possibility of sweeping reforms at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO). Indeed, omnibus bills were introduced in both Houses of Congress (HR 3460, S 1961) to reconstitute the PTO as a ...
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