Intellectual Property

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...

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...

  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....

  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...

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...

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...

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...

For many New Jersey businesses their most valuable assets are intangible. More specifically, these assets include intellectual property rights. Intellectual property rights include patents, copyrights, trademarks and other business concepts. While some of these rights...

When businesses take the time, energy and risk of developing a new medical device, medication or other technology, the government rewards them. These rewards come in the form of intellectual property rights. Patents, in particular, give their owners the exclusive...

In the age of the internet, many people in New Jersey may not see anything wrong with downloading a song online and listening to it. What these people may not understand is that the artist has intellectual property rights in that song. Under United States laws,...