Simple Identity Theft Protection

Simple tips to lower your risk of identity theft both off and online.

Protect Yourself Against Identity Theft

Identity theft is when someone uses, without permission, your personal information in order to commit any frauds or crimes. Identity theft is a felony that is becoming more and more common. That is because some of us are not very careful with personal information, making the job easier for those trying to steel our identity.

Identity Theft Hurts Pets, Consumers and Businesses

Identity theft and Brand Name Loss, whose identity are we protecting? FTC VS Petco, nobody wins. America, her pets, consumers and corporations take the fall, the criminals nowhere to be found.

Preventing Identity Theft

Preventing identity theft is never foolproof but use these tips and you'll have a much better chance at preventing identity theft before it happens.

Patents For Inventors - Your Questions Answered

Are you confused about what a patent is and whether you should get one? This is primer for beginning inventors that answers your most commonly asked questions. Questions include what is a patent, what is patent pending, what protection does a patent provide, should you keep your invention secret, and more. A must-read for inventors at all experience levels.

Intellectual Property and Copyright Laws

Just as one owns physical property and real estate, Intellectual Property (IP) allows people exclusive ownership of their creativity and innovation. It gives these people control on their innovations for which they are rewarded and encouraged to create further for the benefit of others.

Digital Millennium Copyright Act DMCA Redefined - Steps to Keep Your Content and Intellectual Proper

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, DMCA, prevents technology from duplicating or distributing copyrighted material. Steps to take to defend your content and intellectual property.

Data Protection - Database Right For Sales Agencies

A ruling by the High Court has resulted in new case law governing sales agencies with regard to database rights. Where a sales agency has built up a database of customer details, they will now own a database right in that database in the event that there is not an agreement with another party as to the ownership of that database.

The Difference Between Trade Secrets And Trademarks

Some people get confused between trade secrets and trademarks. A trademark is something that is publicly recognized and known as being officially associated with a particular company. In contrast a trade secret can be a much more broad definition and by its very name is not made public.

Patent- How Well Protected Are The Patent Holders?

How well are we, the patent holder, protected? For twenty years, patent holders are protected, they say. Exclusive rights have the right to sue an infringer.

Intellectual Property-Exclusive Rights

Exclusive rights- is it well defined? Will the infringer get to be sued? Copy rights, Patent, Trade marks, industrial designs and trade secrets and all these come under Intellectual Property.

Protect Your Creativity

As an entrepreneur, you are undoubtedly blessed with the ability to come up with new ideas for products and services. Sometimes, a competitor comes up with a similar idea and manages to make money out of it before you do. A great deal of planning, money, time and effort are required to turn these ideas into invention and innovation.

Selecting Business Names and Intellectual Property Law

An information technology & intellectual property lawyer steps through some common provisions of software license agreements and software development contracts. Includes explanations of the purpose and effect of particular clauses in software and technology contracts.

Patent Map Generation and Reading

Patent Mapping a way to visualize patent mining results that involves clustering or otherwise orienting patent data on a page so that there is meaning in the spatial relationships among the data points. Patent Landscape: graphical representation of how large numbers of patents relate to each other based on keywords, citations, or patent classifications. It is useful in identify trends, determine patent gaps and opportunities, and design around competitors' patents.

Trademarks: When and How to Search and File Trademark Applications

A trademark can be any word, slogan, design, symbol, or even a color, smell, product configuration or a combination of these, used to identify the source of origin of particular goods and services. The trademark serves as a source identifier of your goods and services, to distinguish it from the goods and services of others.