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Top 5 Reasons Why USPTO Denied Your Trademark Application

One in five trademark applications fail their first examination according to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. We have highlighted the top 5 reasons behind this failure to help you ensure this doesn’t happen to you.

July 19, 2019

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Google It With A Capital G

Google’s recent move to break off the parts of the company that are a bit more experimental in nature (like the ones trying to make sure that people never die) and house those parts under a new corporate umbrella called Alphabet has drawn quite a bit of commentary, much of it focusing on Google’s corporate strategy, brand value, or vision for its own future.

August 18, 2015

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Soundexchange and the Ongoing, Hard-fought Battle to Pay Performers for Their Master Royalties

Let’s acknowledge this right off the top: we live in an age where a large contingent of the population has internalized the idea that music, songs, albums, etc., are fully “free.” Nobody likes to side with, say, the RIAA, while they’re filing lawsuits against 12 year olds with Limewire (or its more current equivalent).

July 22, 2015

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