Why Do I Need My Employees to Sign Employment Agreements? Intellectual Property! That’s Why.
Employment agreements create a clear, written record of mutually agreed terms between companies and employees or contractors.
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The Metaverse and NFTS in the World of Copyrights
It may be wise to take a step back before drafting and sending that letter or email. While cease and desist letters serve a legitimate function, a poorly crafted demand, or one based on claims that cannot be supported, can do much more legal harm than good.
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Are the Days of Non-compete Agreements Numbered?
You don’t want to contact a tool company directly and tell them about your great idea without having some protections in place. Sometimes a non-disclosure agreement can be effective for making an initial disclosure of your invention to another party.
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The Art of Rebranding To Avoid Trademark Infringement Or Rejected Trademark Registration Applications
You don’t want to contact a tool company directly and tell them about your great idea without having some protections in place. Sometimes a non-disclosure agreement can be effective for making an initial disclosure of your invention to another party.
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2021 Patent Data and Statistics
You don’t want to contact a tool company directly and tell them about your great idea without having some protections in place. Sometimes a non-disclosure agreement can be effective for making an initial disclosure of your invention to another party.
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What Type of Agreement Should SaaS Companies Use?
Peacock Law works with SaaS clients to negotiate, draft and execute agreements that will establish long-lasting and beneficial relationships.
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What Next?
You don’t want to contact a tool company directly and tell them about your great idea without having some protections in place. Sometimes a non-disclosure agreement can be effective for making an initial disclosure of your invention to another party.
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Overcoming Obviousness
The risk of inadvertently crossing paths with an internet troll is something that every business owner must be aware of and watch out for.
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Understanding How Software Code Can be Protected by Copyright, Even If It Has Trade Secrets
The risk of inadvertently crossing paths with an internet troll is something that every business owner must be aware of and watch out for.
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Hiring or Firing an Employee? How to Protect Your Trade Secrets
The risk of inadvertently crossing paths with an internet troll is something that every business owner must be aware of and watch out for.
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9 Questions to Ask Before Making that Intellectual Property Licensing Deal
Many inventions are the result of collaboration. Collaboration creates complications where intellectual property is concerned.
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What Not to Do Until You File a Patent
It’s natural to get excited to get a new innovation to market, or to at least let the world know that it is coming soon. Make sure you avoid these common mistakes before you make that announcement or first sale, lest you risk giving up your own patent rights in the invention.
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Understand before you brand!
A well-designed brand can be a catalyst to put your company’s product or service on the map. However, every company owner or entrepreneur should be aware of the basics involved in selecting a brand name or creating a trademark.
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Who Owns What? Talking to Co-Inventors about Patent Ownership
Many inventions are the result of collaboration. Collaboration creates complications where intellectual property is concerned.
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IP collaboration is hot and unwillingness to cooperate is not!
An atmosphere of collaboration, with collaborative intellectual property and co-development agreements, has become more common among established companies…
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How to Get Your Money from a Licensing Arrangement
Here at Peacock Law, one of the questions we receive most often from clients is how they will be paid by a licensing agreement. The short answer to that question of how one will get paid is that it depends.
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Exclusive or Non-Exclusive? Understanding the Best License for Your Business
Your intellectual property licensing arrangement is one of the most important decisions you will make concerning your business. The first big question about the licensing deal is whether it will be exclusive or non-exclusive.
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Protecting Valuable Business Info as a Trade Secret
If your family has a treasured secret recipe that has been handed down for generations, you already understand the basics of a trade secret. In legal terms, a trade secret pertains to information that derives independent economic value from not being generally known to and not being readily ascertainable by proper means by others.
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The Importance of a Strong Licensing Agreement
Your company has worked hard to develop its intellectual property. It is understandable that you would want to protect it. But you want to accomplish that goal while retaining the ability to monetize your intellectual property and reap the financial benefits you’ve earned from your efforts.
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Debunking the Biggest Misunderstanding in Copyright
These 8 tips will prepare you to make the best of any fame that comes to your content, or if your content is already going “viral”, to provide some wisdom through this incredibly exciting adventure.
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Viral Content: Monetizing, Exploiting and Protecting Your Content or Media Before and After it Goes ‘Viral’
These 8 tips will prepare you to make the best of any fame that comes to your content, or if your content is already going “viral”, to provide some wisdom through this incredibly exciting adventure.
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What are my chances of being issued a patent for my invention?
What are your chances of success in being issued a patent for your invention? Wouldn’t you like to know!
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Protecting Your Manufacturing Process: Questions to Ask Yourself Before You Apply for a Patent
Perhaps you developed a more efficient way of making existing products? Perhaps you developed a way of making products that were previously impossible to make before? Or perhaps you developed a way to make a better product? Whatever the case, the way…
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Tune Up Your Business With an IP Audit
Many of our clients prefer to license their idea or sell it outright rather than commercializing it themselves. However, finding the right purchaser or licensee is not easy and is full of traps. Here are some tips for those of you embarking on the journey of getting a deal for your idea.
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