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Protecting Your Idea

What Your Business Can Learn From Apple's Battle with Samsung
If you think a competitor copied your patented products or services, here are some ways to stand in the way of their efforts.

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Time to Patent

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Protect your new product with a patent.
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Answers to the most common legal questions about patents, trademarks and copyrights
July 10, 2006 in Protecting Your Idea

Keeping an Inventor's Notebook

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Protect your idea with these easy-to-follow steps for keeping an inventor's notebook--one of the most important steps in the inventing process.
June 12, 2006 in Protecting Your Idea

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Keeping your idea confidential
April 20, 2006 in Protecting Your Idea

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Everything you need to know about protecting your invention
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Protecting Your Trademark

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Keep another company from stealing your pending trademarked name without spending a dime.
September 1, 2005 in Protecting Your Idea

How to Protect Your Business's Trade Secrets

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These five rules will help safeguard some of your company's most important assets.
May 1, 2005 in Protecting Your Idea

The Name Game

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Want to expand your trademark globally? Watch your step—or you'll be putting your name on the line.
April 1, 2004 in Protecting Your Idea

Spilling the Beans?

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Learn how to reveal just enough about your business idea to get the help you need.
November 1, 2003 in Protecting Your Idea

Send in the Clones

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Will competitors' knockoffs destroy your products' edge? Not if you don't let them.
September 1, 2003 in Protecting Your Idea

Trademarking Your Domain

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Registering a domain doesn't mean you also own the trademark for that domain. You'd better do your legwork now if you want to protect what you've got.
December 2, 2002 in Protecting Your Idea

Patent Holders Given Edge in Battle Against Infringers

Supreme Court decision eases inventors' burden of proving someone else has violated their patent rights
June 17, 2002 in Protecting Your Idea
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How to Go Mobile on a Budget

How to Go Mobile on a Budget

Michael Schneider, CEO of Mobile Roadie, offers tips for small businesses looking to take their businesses mobile.
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