29 May 2024 · Articles, Entrepreneurship, Trademark
Think Ahead On Trademark Registration As Changes Are Not Free! WHERE WILL YOU BE IN 5 YEARSWhen registering your trademarks it is always worth spending the time thinking about where you will be within 5 years. MANAGE YOUR PARTNERSHIPS CAREFULLY‘Dry January’ was registered in 2013 for ‘educational purposes’, by a charity Alcohol Change UK. They […]
Read More29 May 2024 · Articles, Entrepreneurship, IP Value, Knowledge, Trade secrets
This is the reality in most companies. Watch this business owner describe how ex- employees contacted his clients asking them to join them in their new venture. What else were they going to do? If the client list were defined as a #tradesecret and #contracts stipulated, they could not remove this, then there would have […]
Read More20 May 2024 · Articles
Now The optimal time to prepare for your intellectual property is now! Ostrich Strategy Get round to it later or the ‘put your head in the sand’, is just storing up problems for later. Trademark Disputes For example why wait until your business is up and running and making great progress to find that someone […]
Read More19 April 2024 · Articles
Dawn Chorus Nature’s Symphony or Secrets revealed? What are people saying about you and your business in the coffee shops, bars, restaurants, taxis, trains and online? We all like to chat: ‘What’s the gossip?’ ‘What’s going on?’ ‘Have you heard’? ‘Did you know?’ What if your financial information for example this quarter’s sales figures, that […]
Read More7 April 2024 · Articles, Trade secrets
Trade secret loss can be very costly for both the business and the people involved in the loss. In this case the person involved was sentenced to 8 years jail.
Read More3 April 2024 · Articles, IP Strategy, Trademark
Brand protection strategy helps fast growth businesses defend the value in their brand using trademarks. Developing the right strategy early on is good advice.
Read More28 March 2024 · Articles, IP Strategy, Trademark
Planning ahead for trademark strategy. The owner of $100m street wear brand Represent tells how not having the trademark in Europe nearly broke the business
Read More26 March 2024 · Articles, Trade secrets
Commercial information is enforced the most in all trade secret ,litigation cases in Europe
Read More15 March 2024 · Articles, Innovation
Most theft of intellectual property is by insiders and it is not malicious. This means that your own staff, investors, customers, suppliers, partners are leaking your valuable IP by mistake and often without even realising it. Intellectual property advice for small businesses is absolutely essential Think what provides your business with competitive advantage and what […]
Read More14 March 2024 · Articles
Most theft of intellectual property is by insiders and it is not malicious. This means that your own staff, investors, customers, suppliers, partners are leaking your valuable IP by mistake and often without even realising it. Think what provides your business with competitive advantage and what your competitors would like most to get their hands […]
Read More14 March 2024 · Articles, NDA, Trade secrets
We have established that investors don’t like signing NDAs. Investors think it is not worth it because most of the companies they meet they will not invest in – so they have not got the time, or inclination. The response therefore is to keep the crown jewels to yourself. Have a deck and script that looks pretty […]
Read More12 March 2024 · Articles, IP Value, Trademark
IP is hidden from view The thing about IP is that it is not visible and the disasters are often swept under the carpet. Consider the #VW #RollsRoyce #BMW trademark issue 25 years ago that no one has heard about. Here the IP was hidden from view in that the #trademark was held in another […]
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