Piece by Piece – 5 Legal Considerations for Startups
Introduction
Every startup needs a name, a location, a business structure, financing and at least one employee (or self-employed entrepreneur!). Each need involves different legal considerations. H...
February 1, 2016
Can a competitor use my trademark on their website for comparative pricing?
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Many websites use numerous brand names to compare pricing of each company’s products. Issues may arise when such ‘price-comparison’ websites are using other companies...
January 5, 2016
Protect Your Goodwill – Register Your Trademark!
What’s in a name?
Trademarks are the name, design, brand or logo that represent the products and services a company offers. They can be the word that customers associate with a comp...
December 11, 2015
Blog Bite: Legal challenges and recourses for designers and manufacturers of 3D printing technology
This article posted on our partner site Mondaq.com discusses the intellectual property challenges for designers and manufacturers of products amidst the advancements of 3D printing technology. T...
April 15, 2015
Registration of Your Business Outside of Your Legal Jurisdiction
To do business outside of the jurisdiction that a corporation is registered in, your corporation may need to apply for a licence for your corporation to be formed in that jurisdiction.
When a corpor...
December 15, 2014
Blog Bite: Unfair benefit derived from brand recognition
This article posted on our partner site Mondaq.com discusses the implications of the use of recognized trademarked goods by Google Glass software for the purpose of triggering ad popups in augmen...
September 4, 2014
Defending Your Business Name
We wrote recently about establishing a business name (See article on the importance of choosing a distinctive business name). Once your company has started to gain some “traction” (subsc...
February 24, 2014