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Bold Brand Building tools

Erik K Pelton

The following is an excerpt from my book, Building a Bold Brand. Coming up with a great brand name for a new business, new product, or. There are a few naming concepts that are great sources of bold brands. Slice & Dice (purchase tracking software). protections and powerful branding. Today, it may be even more.

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Exploring the Top Four Ways to Stop Brand Counterfeiting

Kashishipr

It is not unusual to encounter counterfeit versions of widely recognized brands like Adidas, Gucci, Nike, etc. Such products are fake and portrayed as popular brands to charge less than the market price and make enormous profits. They usually have a devastating effect on the brand’s reputation and customer loyalty.

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EMP&A’s Unique Patent Pending Tool

Erik K Pelton

The following is an edited transcript of my video Our Unique Patent Pending Tool at EMP&A. We own more than a dozen trademark registrations for our brand, slogans and other creative trademarks, and we recently became the owners of a patent application. At our firm, we aim to practice what we preach.

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When Is Trade Secret Protection the Right Choice?

The IP Law Blog

Companies rely on intellectual property (“IP”) rights to protect their valuable information, creations, and branding. IP rights come in several forms: copyrights, trademarks, patents, and trade secrets. Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) states, ” a trademark protects brand names and logos used on goods and services.

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Customs and Border Protection and Trademarks protection at the border

Erik K Pelton

And a lot of brand owners don’t realize that it’s not very difficult and not very expensive to register and protect their trademark with US Customs and Border Protection. And this database is much smaller than the US Patent and Trademark Office database because many brand owners do not know to take advantage of it.

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Intellectual Property for Tech Startups

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

IPR primarily include patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and designs, each serving a specific purpose in protecting various forms of intellectual creations. Novel innovations are protected by patents, but software codes, designs, or artistic components are protected by copyrights.

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M&A Checklist — How to Prepare Your IP for the Legal Due Diligence Process

LexBlog IP

In most cases, this can be broken down between two central areas – technology and branding. Technology is often protected through patents or trade secrets. A prudent IP strategy would therefore consider patent protection for more physical innovations and trade secret or copyright protection for software.