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What Happens if You Don’t Secure Copyright From Designers, Developers and Others Before Engaging Them to do Work
February 14, 2020

The 7 Costly Mistakes People Make When Turning their Big Idea into a Business, or when Branding or Rebranding Anything

During branding, designs will be created for your brand, including your logo.

You should not enter into...

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What not to do if your trade mark is becoming generic
February 11, 2009
 
A mini-laptop or a netbook?

IP lawyers always become excited when they find an example of a trade mark in danger of becoming generic.  The case in point is the trade mark for NETBOOK, pointed out in this blog...

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Why Trademark? Essential Thinking Inspired by The Road Less Stupid
June 26, 2020

In the book, “The Road Less Stupid: Advice from the Chairman of the Board” Keith J. Cunningham describes how smart people do dumb things. Business is an intellectual sport, yet many entrepreneurs and business owners...

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Why You Need to Protect a Name and Other Intangible Assets Immediately
February 21, 2020

The 7 Costly Mistakes People Make When Turning their Big Idea into a Business, or when Branding or Rebranding Anything

Since a brand gives your idea or product identity, not registering it as a trademark leaves you wide open.

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World IP Day 2021 – Focus on IP and SMEs
April 23, 2021

World IP day is on April 26. Every year the IP industry, led by the World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO) celebrates the day by raising awareness of the vital role IP rights in innovation and creativity.

World IP Day 2021...

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Your Mindset: Is it Helping or Hindering You and Your Business?
January 15, 2021

Before I begin this week’s blog, it is important to point out that no two successful businesses have identical stories. Each will have faced their own unique challenges, and their founders will have taken their own paths....

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Trademarking A Colour – Another Type of Non-Conventional Trademark
November 13, 2020

Why would you want to trademark a colour given that colour is difficult to trademark, and is part and parcel of every visual identity, even those that opt for black and white? It is rare to hear of someone having to...

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Top 3 Most Common Naming Mistakes
July 3, 2020

Although Interbrand’s ‘10 most common naming mistakes’ article is featured by Google as a top resource, it is more about getting the reader to think that naming is too difficult to do, so they’ll engage a...

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Tips to Choosing a Name That is Ownable and Enables You to Stand Out
January 31, 2020

The 7 Costly Mistakes People Make When Turning their Big Idea into a Business, or when Branding or Rebranding Anything

Did you know that choosing a name is an important IP decision? The name is one of the most valuable assets...

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The Third Costly Mistake People Make When Branding or Rebranding
May 8, 2020

We usually associate brands with companies and products – particularly with big household names like Apple or Microsoft Word. But nowadays, anything can be a brand. Even as an individual, you have a personal brand. How...

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Should You Develop Your Personal Brand?
May 8, 2020

We usually associate brands with companies and products – particularly with big household names like Apple or Microsoft Word. But nowadays, anything can be a brand. Even as an individual, you have a personal brand. How should...

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Protecting Brand Identifiers – What We Can Learn from Jenni Romaniuk
November 30, 2021

Jenni Romaniuk, in her book, Building Distinctive Brand Assets researched the extent to which various types of brand assets can substitute for the brand name once a brand becomes sufficiently well-known.

The assets...

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