Intellectual Property
Navigating the New USPTO Trademark Search System
On November 30, 2023, the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) made a significant transition…
The Comprehensive Guide to Brand Development and Protection
The Comprehensive Guide to Brand Development and Protection What is a Brand? In the world…
Patent Protection vs. Trade Secret Protection
Patent Protection vs. Trade Secret Protection. Prepared by Patent Attorney Kathleen Kuznicki. Patents and trade…
Intellectual Property Issues and Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
What are NFTs? NFTs are digital cryptographic assets that represent real-world objects like art, music,…
Patent Protections: Wright or Wrong?
Were the famous brothers patent trolls? Or just entrepreneurs trying to be compensated for their…
Spinning Out of Control: Peloton’s Attempts to Cancel a Trademark Bully
Have you attended a spin class at your local gym or health club? Or are you immersed in the more…
5 Tips — Protecting The Photographer’s Copyrights Online
Photographers are especially vulnerable to theft of their work. Unfortunately, artists of all types have…
USPTO extends filing deadlines
USPTO Extends Certain Responsive Filing Deadlines to June 1, 2020. Responsive filings due between and…
Intellectual Property Goals For 2020
Do You Have 2020 IP Vision? If you own a business, you use intellectual property…
False Advertising Issues For Emerging Businesses
False advertising is the use of false, misleading, or unproven information to advertise products to…
Copyrights For Start-Ups And Emerging Businesses
A copyright owner has the exclusive right to reproduce copies of the work, prepare derivative…
Increase the Value of Your Business by Protecting Your Competitive Edge
As I stated in the first post of this series, in business, imitation is NOT…
SMART Patent Applications
Can filing a patent application be a SMART goal? Yes, it can. Filing a patent…
Can I Copyright My Logo?
Businesses work very hard on establishing their brand identity. That includes coming up with a…
IP Strategies Protect Your Assets And Minimize Your Risk
I work with businesses and individuals to maximize the protection of their own intellectual property,…
3-D Printers Raise Concerns About Intellectual Property
Three-dimensional printing and scanning are opening up new ways to make and re-create products. What’s…
Intellectual Property Panel Discussion For Hardware Startups
Kathleen Kuznicki will be a panelist in a discussion on the strategies available to hardware…
Is It Worth Getting A Patent Even If You Never Intend To Litigate?
All Successful Inventions Should Be Patent Protected Yes. Otherwise, if you have a desirable and…
Might You Be a Copyright Infringer?
(In the voice of a famous redneck comedian!) Do you think everything online is free…
Want To Keep Track Of Your Competition? Monitor Their Intellectual Property!
by Kathleen Kuznicki, Esq. As businesses grow and develop, so do their intellectual property (IP)…
Intro To Patents
A patent is a government granted monopoly that gives an inventor the exclusive right to…
How Long Does it Take to Get a Patent?
by: Kathleen Kuznicki, Esq. When people come to talk with me about patenting their inventive…
The Basics of Trademarks
by: Kathleen Kuznicki, Esq. What is a trademark? The legal definition of a trademark is…
Intro To Copyrights
by: Kathleen Kuznicki, Esq. A copyright protects the particular way people expressed themselves. A copyright…
Design Patent
by: Kathleen Kuznicki, Esq. You got the (novel and non-obvious?) look! In the recent Apple-Samsung…
Trade Secrets: Your Undisclosed Intellectual Property
by: Kathleen Kuznicki, Esq. Proprietary information such as customer lists and recipes are intellectual property. …
Licensing Agreements
by: Kathleen Kuznicki, Esq. Persons or businesses that own intellectual property have certain rights in…