Good branding can make or break a company. When customers know and trust your product, they will look for your logo or brand name when making a purchase. Unfortunately, with success comes the risk of someone trying to elbow in on your market. Unscrupulous competitors...
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Intellectual Property
With 5G on the horizon, patent fights between owners and innovators escalate
5G technology is set to change the way people communicate—in Atlanta and around the globe. It will allow for an instantaneous exchange of information between devices. Additionally, it will allow for more efficient information retrieval from so called “dumb” devices...
How does Georgia define a trade secret?
All Georgia businesses want to protect their intellectual property from competitors, but defining intellectual property can be difficult. George has adopted the Uniform Trade Secrets Act, and the statute provides a usable definition of trade secrets. Unless a firm has...
Key points about intellectual property and trademark infringement
Creating a new product or service is an exciting time for Georgia residents who are starting a business or already have a functioning business. For those who have a product and want to protect intellectual property from trademark infringement, it is important to...
Determining publication in the digital age
Copyrights protects the fruits of authorship or creation such as literature. But a recent digital registration option proposed by the U.S. Copyright Office for short online literary works, known as GRTX, generated controversy and presents intellectual property legal...
Appeals judges reinstate ‘Pirates’ copyright infringement lawsuit
Millions of people in Georgia and around the country flocked to cinemas in 2003 to see the Disney release “Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl.” The film was a huge box-office success and spawned four sequels to date. It is also at the center of a...
Netflix lawsuit highlights intellectual property infringement
Business owners in Georgia and around the country know that when they create a product, they need to protect it. The item or product they've created is their intellectual property. Often, business owners will get protections like patents and copyrights for a creation...
Lady A files trademark lawsuit against singer over name
Atlanta music fans may have heard that the country group formerly known as Lady Antebellum recently changed its name to Lady A in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests. Now, the group has filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against a Seattle-based singer who...
Intellectual property laws help protect creators
When businesses or individuals in Georgia create products or services, these creations are typically protected by rights called intellectual property. There are many different types of intellectual property, including authors rights, patents, copyrights and trade...
Teaching of intellectual property rights for scientists
Intellectual property theft is costing the U.S as much as $600 billion per year. Georgia businesses and residents might be interested in an article that explains how scientists are being taught to protect discoveries from loss of intellectual rights and data....
