Business Law Articles

Domain Names in Different Alphabets

On November 16, 2009, ICANN (the international organization) started to test the ability to have Internet domain names be in alphabets outside of Roman characters. What does this mean from a trademark perspective? It means a lot more websites to protect from...

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Law & Business Podcast Episode 24: Three Thoughts for the Patent Application Process

Episode 24 of the "Law & Business" Podcast features Wil Jacques, the patent agent of Verna Law, P.C. We discuss the patent application in three thoughts. After filing the patent application, there is an office action (rejection from the United States Patent and...

Law & Business Podcast Episode 23: Three Items that make a Patentable Invention

In Episode 23 of the "Law & Business" podcast, Verna Law's own patent agent, Wil Jacques, speaks with Anthony about the three items that make a patentable invention. The three items for a patentable invention are: It must be new or "novel": the invention must...

Would you be concerned about having products manufactured in other countries (China, S Korea) and then having the IP ripped off?

Here’s a question that a business owner recently asked of me: Would you be concerned about having products manufactured in other countries (China, S Korea) and then having the IP ripped off? If you are concerned, you should listen to this discussion with John Eastwood...

Episode 20: Working with Influencers and Other PR Social Media Issues

It's Episode 20 of the "Law & Business" podcast.  In this episode, Janine Just of Janine Just, Inc., "chief connectologist."  Janine defines a connectologist as an agent of digital gap-bridging; a person who brings real life to digital relationships with in-person...