Grappling with the intricate nature of intellectual property (IP) litigation requires a basic knowledge of what intellectual property is and the types of conflicts that can arise from its insufficient protection and/or infringement. Intellectual property can be...
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The basics of trademark litigation
Trademarks are invaluable assets for businesses, serving as symbols of brand identity and quality. Protecting trademarks is essential to maintaining brand integrity and preventing unauthorized use. Sometimes, safeguarding one’s rights to a trademark necessitates...
How Do You Resolve Intellectual Property Disputes?
When someone uses your creative work without your permission, this violates the law. These works can include images, words, logos or inventions. There are several ways to resolve these types of conflicts legally. Understanding your rights is vital to safeguard your...
Confusion: An important factor in trademark infringement
If you discover another business or entity using a trademark similar to yours, you may feel like you have to act quickly to stop the infringement. While there are other options aside from litigation to resolve these issues, there are a few things that business owners...
New Jersey businesses — beware of patent trolls
When New Jersey companies have a patent on a particular item or process, that patent protects them from others using the patented item without their consent. Therefore, only the company that owns the patent can make money from it. However, sometimes this doesn't stop...
Large numbers of intellectual property disputes involve software
When New Jersey businesses create a new product, those businesses want to make sure that they are the only ones that profit from that new invention. Intellectual property laws help these businesses by providing legal protections for all sorts of creations....
Positive resolution reached in intellectual property case
Business disputes, especially intellectual property disputes, have the potential to turn into massive problems for New Jersey businesses. Without the right help and management, intellectual property disputes can become very expensive, time consuming and...
NJ Turnpike Authority loses case for domain name rights
As any established business owner will tell you, there is a lot of value in the goodwill that comes with a company name. In this day and age, once the name is established, it may be of equal or greater importance to establish an online presence with said name. It's...
New Jersey business sued for copyright infringement
For many businesses, their image and name is everything. Therefore, businesses will go a long way to protect their reputation, name and their copyrights.In a recent case, a New Jersey business was sued by world renowned Yale University for copyright infringement in...
10-year-old intellectual property case finally settles
When one business violates the intellectual property rights of anther, that business can be held financially responsible for the violation. Before damages can be assigned, a company must first prove that they had intellectual property rights to begin with and that...