Intellectual Property

The New York City area is known for its competitive publishing industry. When it comes to protecting your work as a writer, what do you need to know? If you’ve written a book, do you retain all copyright ownership and intellectual property rights? The answer largely...

Trademarks are an excellent way to protect a company's logo or brand. Companies in New York can register trademarks to prevent competitors or other entities from illegally using their name or logo to promote their own agenda. Further, as a recent case involving...

If you own intellectual property, you should know how to protect it. According to the National Crime Prevention Council, intellectual property theft in this arena is a pervasive problem. The council reports that copyright infringement alone costs the U.S. economy $58...

As an entrepreneur or business owner in the state of New York, you have no doubt worked very hard to distinguish your products and/or services from those of your competitors. After all, offering customers original designs, and decor in some instances, is crucial to...

New York City is known for being the location of many famous recording studios. As with other types of creative work, music is known as intellectual property and is therefore protected by intellectual property laws. One of the aspects of IP law is the right to be paid...

While many content developers across the state of New York and beyond may understand that it is important to secure their intellectual property rights, they may not be well acquainted with policies specific to copyright infringement. Being familiar with the many...

Intellectual property protection is vital to many businesses in today's day and age. Trademark and copyright protection can be important to any number of individuals and entrepreneurs, as well as small business and large corporations. Because of the important role...

Successfully securing a patent can be important to your business or simply to your idea. In general, a patent is when the government grants a property right, which prevents others from selling, using or making a particular invention for a certain period of time....

New York residents may be familiar with shoe designers Nike and Adidas, but they may be surprised to hear about allegations that former designers for Nike may have stolen commercial secrets. The three individuals accused were once senior footwear designers for Nike....

Patents are legal protections that give the inventors of intellectual property the right to keep others from misusing their property over a 20-year period from the application file date. Misuse means no one other than the inventors can manufacture, use, offer to sell...