If You’re Making Your Own Board Game, How Do You Protect Your Idea?
Making your own board game? Learn how to protect your board game idea with patents, trademarks, and copyright, from Founders Legal.
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SEC Drops the Hammer on Kim Kardashian
The SEC announced charges against Kim Kardashian following an instagram promotion of cryptocurrency.
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Can I Break a Provisional Patent into Multiple Filings?
CAN I USE A SINGLE PROVISIONAL PATENT INTO MULTIPLE NON-PROVISIONAL PATENT FILINGS? One provisional patent application may serve as the basis to as many non-provisional patents as you would like. As long as you file at least one non-provisional within 12 months of the provisional application, you can continue to file additional non-provisional applications claiming…
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Are Templates and Forms Protected Under Copyright Law?
Let’s say I was the first to invent the Venn diagram. Can I obtain a copyright or a patent to prevent anyone from using or displaying it?
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Protecting Your Brand: Don’t Trust Your Trademark To Just Anyone
Safeguard Your Brand: How Choosing the Wrong Trademark Lawyer Can Kill Your Brand.
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Your Intellectual Property Attorney Can be Located in a Different State
Did you know that your intellectual property attorney can be located anywhere in the United States? This is because most relevant intellectual property laws, such as patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets, are federal laws, which are the same throughout the country.
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Protecting Your Hemp and CBD Brand Through Trademarks
On May 2, 2019, the USPTO issued new guidance addressed to its trademark examiners on how to handle trademark applications for cannabis-related products. The guidance reiterates that a product ‘must first be in lawful use’ to receive a federal trademark. As it relates to cannabis or cannabis-related trademarks filed on or after December 20,…
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How to Protect Your Brand – Trademarks 101
It is common for entrepreneurs to spend years of their lives, in addition to their blood, sweat and tears to grow a company and the name associated with it. That name can be not only dear to those who invest in it but it can also become a very valuable piece of property. It is…
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Can I Get Trademark Protection For A Board Game?
Trademark Protection for Board Games Jump to: Most savvy entrepreneurs know to apply for trademarks on their product names, company names, logos and slogans. Of those, inventors who make board games often go straight to patent filings and forget about the trademark analysis, as explored in my article here: This article considers a sub-category of…
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Do ICO’s Seek an Expectation of Profit Solely from the Efforts of Others?
In a previous article, we discussed the second prong of the Howey test – a “common enterprise” – and the US Circuit Courts’ fragmentation on the issue and lack of uniform definition. In this third and final part of our series pulling apart the Howey Test, we’re looking at the third and fourth prongs of…
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