If you're selling products on Amazon, you very well may see other sellers also moving the same products. Remember, Amazon started as a site for used books. While they've since expanded, it was initially a site for people to resell books, whether they were private...
Google and Oracle are now in the U.S. Supreme Court over a copyright case that revolves around the use of computer code. It has to do with application programming interfaces (APIs) and thousands of lines of code that Google used, after it was written by programmers at...
If your company has a logo or other trademarked information that is instantly recognizable, it can work wonders for your brand. This is why you see advertising even for well-known companies that already make millions (or billions) in sales. They are striving to keep...
If you ask someone what a trade secret is, they may look at you as if the name is self-explanatory. It is a secret that is important to your company, in your trade. It's a critical piece of information that you don't want the competition to know so that you can keep...
Obtaining a patent is expensive. Inventors and company product developers often have to spend $5,000-10,000 to protect their intellectual property with a patent. On the other hand, those who create creative works (manuscripts, articles, poems, photographs or songs)...
Have you ever been listening to a song on the radio and thought that it sounded like a song you'd already heard? This is pretty common. You may think that one artist stole the idea or the music from the other. This topic gets a bit confusing, though, because the...
