Avoiding ID Theft and Credit Fraud

One in every eight Americans has already been victimized! It can take years and thousands of dollars to correct an identity theft, credit fraud or a simple key entry error by a clerk at a Credit Bureau. It takes just minutes for you to use these proven tips!

Business Records & Identity Theft

Did you know that identity theft victims are entitled to FREE copies of your business records relating to the identity theft. You need to know the process for handing the records over!

Five Key Questions About IP Help Increase Market Value and Improve Bottom Line Results

Five key questions about your intellectual property can help increase corporate value and bottomline results. Effective management of these rights is the key to success in the information age.

Domain Names - A Market of Great and Growing Importance

The sale of domain names generated $29 million in 2005, with increasing numbers each year after that. Domain names transactions involve large amounts money, and the market for them is quickly becoming one of the most important in the new century. Domain name arbitration is not the only way to ensure that URL's go to whom they should.

Intellectual Property - Copyright Infringement - Trade Mark Infringement

The case of KK Sony Computer Entertainment and Another v Pacific Game Technology (Holding) Ltd [2006], concerned the infringement of copyright in computer games systems under the name of 'PlayStation'. The first claimant was a Japanese company and the second claimant was its UK subsidiary. Both claimants were corporate incarnations of the well known Japanese electronics group, Sony.

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.

Is Your Domain Name Safe From Theft?

Hundreds of thousands of trademark protected domain names get stolen every year. Is your domain name safe from cyberquatters, pornosquatters and other cyber-leaches?

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.

IPC Classsification

One of the hot topics in the IP world today is IPC reform. Due to be published on 1 July 2005, and to come into effect on 1 January 2006, the eighth version of the IPC classification system (also referred to as IPC 2006) may not seem radically different from the previous IPC7, on first blush. But there are important benefits for patent searchers, attorneys, examiners and IP manager

Contracts That Work! Bankruptcy

The vendor of your No. 1 mission-critical application has filed for bankruptcy. Your contract gives you the right to terminate immediately. Can you enforce that provision? This article explores that difficult question in clear, direct English and offers concrete suggestions for improving your IT and IP contracts and ensuring that you continue to receive the services you need, when you need them.

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.

Intellectual Property: Community Trade Marks – Registration Refusal – Likelihood of Confusion

In Alcon Inc v Of Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM) [2005], a mark was refused registration because the public was likely to confuse the mark with another similar mark.

Intellectual Property – Patentability of Computer Programmes - Exclusions

Patenting computer programmes

Patent Me This, Batman

If you have a great idea for an invention, you must protect it. Here are some invaluable tips for how to patent your invention.

The Verve Intellectual Property Case: A Bittersweet Example

Intellectual property's tentacles are long and strong. Maybe the largest battlefield in IP is the music industry. Composer, producers, interpreters and license owners might get unexpectedly involved in legal battles regarding the misuse or abuse of a song of their property. Sometimes it is just something as little as a sample of the song but are legal frictions can deal with millions and millions of dollars.