It’s not often you’ll find free and lawyers in the same sentence, but one firm in the UK is hoping to change that. Nick Jervis has created what is believed to be the first UK legal service that is based on Twitter, according to Insider Media Limited. Nick Jervis, managing director of Bristol-based Loyalty Law, […]
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From the Institute of Justice: Should the city of El Paso, Texas, be allowed to turn itself into a No-Vending Zone in order to protect brick-and-mortar restaurants from competition? That’s the question to be answered by a major federal lawsuit filed January 26, 2011 by the Institute for Justice and four El Paso mobile food
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No matter how well a business deal is proceeding, negotiations and best-laid plans can always take a left turn, leaving the deal dead, or trapping you in a nightmarish contract. Coco Soodek, a business law attorney at international law firm Bryan Cave LLP and author of the ebook “Birth to Buyout: Law for the Life
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Square has recently filed a lawsuit against another company in an attempt to clear up a problem with their rights to its product, reports VentureBeat. Square and its chairman Jim McKelvey have filed a lawsuit against REM Holdings 3 because of a dispute over the filing of a patent that is fundamental to Square’s business.
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If you have the word “entrepreneur” somewhere within your business or product name, then you’re probably well aware of the siege that Entrepreneur Magazine is taking against businesses like yours. While they might not be coming armed with guns and ammo, their weapon of choice is the lawsuit reports BusinessReview USA. For the last several
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David Kravets over at Wired reports that Righthaven, the Las Vegas-based copyright troll, may have sued one website too many. The Electronic Frontier Foundation hit the company with a lawsuit Monday alleging Righthaven is abusing copyright law by suing for excerpting or posting newspaper articles without permission. Law firm Righthaven was formed earlier this year
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In this episode, Rich Whittle explains the 7 easy steps to getting a provisional patent for your invention. Click here to download the US Patent & Trademark Office Form Cover Sheet for provisional patents.
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More than three decades after Clemens Franek moved to Los Angeles and teamed up with aspiring actor Woody Harrelson to sell beach towels whose circular shape helped beachgoers tan evenly, a Chicago appeals court has said the invention can’t be trademarked, reports The Chicago Tribune. Millions of dollars worth of the “most radical beach fashion
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The Associated Press reports that federal and state laws require that most food sold to the public be made in licensed facilities open to government inspectors. But as more people become interested in buying local food, a few states have created exemptions for amateur chefs who sell homemade goods at farmers markets and on small
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According to a story at VentureBeat, filing for a federal trademark can be an expensive endeavor, costing thousands of dollars. So unless you have the resources, it might be best to try more cost effective ways of protecting your brand. The good news is you don’t necessarily have to do anything to have a protectable
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