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5 Effective Ways Start-ups Can Legally Protect Their Brand
Branding is a tricky concept to define. When branding is brought up, are people referring to your product, idea, or trademark utilised to differentiate your company’s goods and services? Branding is multifaceted, no matter how you slice it, and you should take precautions to safeguard your startup business. Although you cannot wholly eradicate competitors or...
Effective Ways to Protect Your Business Against Copycats
Business competition can become incredibly fierce. Many companies sell the same thing but put minor twists in it to make it theirs. However, there is a difference between competition, innovation, and outright copying. When you want to protect your clients and your company’s interest from copycats, you can turn to brand protection or the Australian...
Getting a Registered Trademark Overseas – How to do it
Trademarks are handy for a business to have to ensure that your intellectual property will be protected. If you are planning to expand your business, your local trademark will not be enough to protect your brand if you expand internationally. At this point, you may be thinking about what you can do to protect your...
Commercial Law – Debunking Common Trademark Misconceptions
Trademark laws can be confusing for anyone, but it’s important not to let them hinder you from understanding them if you’re running a business. Knowing your intellectual property rights is just as important as any other aspect of running a business. Of course, you can always hire the services of corporate lawyers to help you...
4 Benefits of Hiring an Intellectual Property Lawyer
Intellectual property has always been a tricky subject to navigate. Indeed, the everyday person has little to no knowledge about the inner workings of intellectual property rights. This can be problematic especially for businesses, as this can leave them vulnerable to a slew of different threats. Luckily, you can get around this problem by hiring...
4 Types of Intellectual Property You Should Know About
Fashion designers, artists, musicians, or just about any type of creator must think about protecting their intellectual property (IP). This is especially important once creators start gaining more attention and popularity. It’s essential to protect yourself before anything unfortunate happens, like your design being stolen. All too often, people get away with design theft and...
Protecting Your Company’s Data – 3 Tips to Consider
As the employer, protecting your business intellectual property and sensitive information is one of your highest priorities. In the information age, it’s your responsibility to take a duty of care with not only your own personal information but also ensure confidentiality is maintained for protected for your cliental. Every single piece of information about your...
Guide to Registering a Trademark in Australia
A trade mark is defined under the Trade Marks Act and is essentially a ‘sign’ that distinguishes your goods or services from those of your competitors. Registering a trade mark gives you exclusive rights to use, license or sell that mark. It could be a logo, word, phrase, letter, number, or a sound, as well...
3 Reasons Your App Needs an End-User License Agreement
One of the most important things that a software or app developer must think about is how their users will utilise their product. The software, whatever its purpose might be, should be used fairly, legally, and for its intended purposes only. This is why every digital product that is released should have a EULA or...
Privacy
A statement like ‘the world is a changing place’ or the fact that we’re relying more and more on technology won’t be shocking to anyone. Anyone with a smartphone (which is almost everyone) will flock to promises of “free Wifi” and a lot of business are making the move into the cloud. But as technology...
Intellectual Property in Entertainment
Whether you have written a book, composed a song, taken a photo, or produced film media, we can help. What You Need to Know Protection of your work begins with your intellectual property, and no matter the size of your project, you need to know your rights. Some rights are automatic, meaning you don’t need...