by thefriedfirm | Jul 19, 2019 | Blog
According to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), one in five trademark applications will fail their first examination by an examining attorney. Why is that? First, it helps to understand just how trademark applications are reviewed by the USPTO. The USPTO...
by thefriedfirm | Mar 20, 2019 | Blog
Whether you are still in the process of formulating your business brainchild or have been successfully growing your NYC-based business for years, you should consider what type of legal business entity best serves the short- and long-term financial needs and goals of...
by thefriedfirm | Feb 15, 2019 | Blog
The term “partner” has come into more frequent use in recent decades to describe an ongoing romantic relationship between unmarried persons with perhaps a nod to the world of business arrangements, but an actual business partnership is far more similar to a marriage...
by thefriedfirm | Dec 20, 2018 | Blog
And just like that, 2018 is on its way out, and 2019 is only a few weeks away. Building your own business can feel like running on a treadmill without an off switch, and one byproduct of that neverending work schedule is that the months seem to fly by much more...
by thefriedfirm | Dec 5, 2018 | Blog
Hashtags have been an easy punchline for about as long as they have been popular on social media engines such as Instagram and Twitter, and this is somewhat propelled by the fact that a good-sized chunk of them serve the one and only purpose of being punchlines to...
by thefriedfirm | Nov 15, 2018 | Blog
“Sorry is all that you can’t say” is the opening line of Tracy Chapman’s 1988 single “Baby Can I Hold You” (off of her 6x Platinum, Grammy-nominated debut album), but it also seems to be a sentiment Chapman is directing towards megastar Nicky Minaj, who allegedly used...
