You’re proud of your website. It’s your face on the Internet, your online presence, and it may provide a robust suite of services for your customers. But if you aren’t careful, cyber-looters may be ...

Trademarks and copyright laws both protect intellectual property, but what they protect is very different. People are often confused by what a copyright covers, and what can be trademarked. Simply, a ...

Copyright infringements can involve written or visual work, such as words, images, videos and artworks. Trademark infringements involve the symbols or icons used to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. This article is more than 6 years old. Tomorrow will mark the end of National Small Business Week. Small businesses often believe ...

In the first part of this series, we asked the question, “What’s the diff between copyright, trademark, patent and trade dress?” and determined what they had in common is that all concern the products ...

There's a lot of legal mumbo jumbo in this post. So, let me preface it with the official disclaimer that I am not a lawyer. But I'm pretty sure I've got most of this right. Last week, in a post that ...

Copyright is the right of an author to prevent anyone from making or selling unauthorized copies of the author’s works. It protects forms of expression such as ...

If you're creative with words, coining an original phrase might come easy for you. Staking a legal claim so the competition can't use it is a lot tougher. If you coin a catchphrase or ad slogan for ...