5 Simple Steps to Protect Your Trademark or Servicemark

December 19, 2014

Determine if what you have is a “trademark” or “service mark”

A “trademark” is any symbol, word, phrase, design, image, sound, color or even fragrance that is used to indicate the source of goods and to distinguish the goods sold or made…

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5 Practical Ways to Protect Your Company’s Proprietary Information

December 19, 2014

Identify trade secret issues before, or at the latest, upon receipt of an information request from an environmental agency.

These issues can greatly affect the size and nature of the response, and you must address them at the outset to prevent later problems that either cannot be corrected or may harm the company in substantive matters before the agency…

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10 Questions to Ask to Better Protect Your Company’s Confidential and Proprietary Information

December 19, 2014

Warn Employees

Advise employees that in the course of their employment they will be privy to certain confidential information and that they have a legal duty not to use that information for any party other than their employer. Employers should never take for granted that their employees necessarily appreciate that certain data is competitively sensitive and should advise them both orally and in writing of its confidential nature…

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