Contracts That Work! Bankruptcy

The vendor of your No. 1 mission-critical application has filed for bankruptcy. Your contract gives you the right to terminate immediately. Can you enforce that provision? This article explores that difficult question in clear, direct English and offers concrete suggestions for improving your IT and IP contracts and ensuring that you continue to receive the services you need, when you need them.

Media Law – Music Copyright – ISP’s Liability for File Sharing

A Coalition of music industry bodies, including the MCPRS Alliance and the Association of Independent Music, is lobbying to have intellectual property law amended to allow Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to be sued for allowing illegal file-sharing on their networks. Commentators have said that their efforts are misguided and commercially impractical. Currently, ISP’s are not required to police the content of their networks much in the same way that telephone companies are not liable for obscene calls.

Patent Map Generation and Reading

Patent Mapping a way to visualize patent mining results that involves clustering or otherwise orienting patent data on a page so that there is meaning in the spatial relationships among the data points. Patent Landscape: graphical representation of how large numbers of patents relate to each other based on keywords, citations, or patent classifications. It is useful in identify trends, determine patent gaps and opportunities, and design around competitors' patents.

Mutual Non-Disclosure Agreement Template

Sample of a Non-disclosure agreement

Protect Your Creativity

As an entrepreneur, you are undoubtedly blessed with the ability to come up with new ideas for products and services. Sometimes, a competitor comes up with a similar idea and manages to make money out of it before you do. A great deal of planning, money, time and effort are required to turn these ideas into invention and innovation.

Patent Piracy and International Intellectual Insidious Insanity

Spinning like a top the minds of the members of the Online Think Tank are in constant motion discussing issues from around the Globe and with more energy then the older gentlemen with the slower minds in Davos. It is amazing that the Patent Piracy and International Intellectual Insidious Insanity continues to go on to this day, as technology in many nations is stolen and products suddenly appear on slow boats from foreign shores.

Intellectual Property - Copyright Infringement in Computer Software

The case of Point Solutions Ltd v Focus Business Solutions Ltd and Another [2007], which was heard in the Court of Appeal, involved a claimant who carried on business as a provider of computer software services, and in particular software for the creation and use of electronic application forms for provision to the financial services sector.

The Intellectual Property Audit - Finding What You Have (Part I of V)

Does your organization account for over 80% of its assets? These assets are not bank accounts or physical possessions; they are not even your real estate. They are the product of your organization's collective mind: your intellectual property. Find out how to find and quantify your IP in this article.

Five Key Questions About IP Help Increase Market Value and Improve Bottom Line Results

Five key questions about your intellectual property can help increase corporate value and bottomline results. Effective management of these rights is the key to success in the information age.

Preventing Identity Theft

Preventing identity theft is never foolproof but use these tips and you'll have a much better chance at preventing identity theft before it happens.

Workplace Identity Theft: The Threat From Within

This article discusses the problem of identity theft in the workplace and how to prevent it.

Identity Theft Hurts Pets, Consumers and Businesses

Identity theft and Brand Name Loss, whose identity are we protecting? FTC VS Petco, nobody wins. America, her pets, consumers and corporations take the fall, the criminals nowhere to be found.

The Risk Of Electronic Fraud & Identity Theft

Human beings are pretty sensible when presented with an imminent threat or risk. That is, if it's staring us directly in the face. Many threats and risk are presented in subtle ways, and it is these subtleties we tend to overlook.

Simple Identity Theft Protection

Simple tips to lower your risk of identity theft both off and online.

Practical Suggestions for Protecting Yourself From Identity Theft

You've heard all about it, you see it on the news, in the papers and magazines. Identity theft is one of the most damaging forms of crime today and it is spreading like wildfire. Here are some practical suggestions for how you can protect yourself form being a victim of identity theft.