Imagine a situation: you have built a social app. It has taken several months or even a year to complete it. Finally, you are about to launch it but are really conscious about others interfering and building a more powerful…
5 IP Mistakes Every Startup May Face
Starting a business is not easy. Everybody makes mistakes and it is really hard to prevent them. However, one can draw a good lesson and avoid the pitfalls in future. When it comes to startups that constantly generate new ideas…
Plagiarism vs Copyright Infringement
Is it the right idea to use or duplicate someone else’s creative work without his or her consent? From the ethical and legal perspective, it is not the best practice. The pirating question undergoes long and thoughtful debates. But to…
What can’t be protected by copyright?
Have you ever wondered about what works cannot be copyrighted? Any creative output set in a physical form, whether it is a romance, building design or an audio file, gets the copyright guardianship you would say. And is it really…
Step-by-step introduction to the copyright registration
If you strive to receive an effective protection for your creative output against infringement, you should certainly enroll for a copyright registration. The core task of any intellectual property protection is to guard person’s time and effort spent on the…
Quick Tips About Copyright
Can you estimate the value of a poem, song, painting, sculpture or a computer program? Such creative work can earn its owner a fortune, become priceless or useless, not worth a bean. Under any circumstances, if you possess the copyright…
Top 5 Patents of the XX Century
We create future learning from the past… In most cases this quotation proves to be true, especially when we speak about patents. Actually, it’s a hard job being an inventor. Dreaming up new devices, gadgets and understanding the basics of…
The ultimate guide to a trademark registration
You have carefully researched, gathered all necessary information and made up your mind to enroll for a trademark? Then you should know about and complete five well-defined steps to receive a registration. Step #1: Clearance Study The high-priority task you…
The ultimate cheat sheet on a trademark registration
There is hardly an entrepreneur or a startup owner that doubts the significance of a federal trademark registration. Before you fill an application, you should discover more about this process and familiarize yourself with the basics. Maybe you need a completely…
The basics of patents, copyrights and trademarks
Intellectual property protection is an essential aspect any inventor should consider, if he believes his brilliant idea is worth trying and can make him a fortune. Patents, copyrights and trademarks … They can be quite confusing, but guarantee you an…