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As a small business, it is always important to know about employment law before hiring your first employee. You may save yourself from spending thousands of dollars on lawyers and settling. We asked a number of employment law experts what they think is the most important details that can be missed Read More

Lessons in Brand Protection from Best Buy:

As I discussed in last week’s post, brand owners must actively monitor and enforce their trademarks in order to retain their exclusive rights and prevent misconceptions amongst consumers. A recent cease-and-desist action instituted by Best Buy against a Read More

For brand owners serious about protecting the value and image of their trademarks, trademark monitoring is an essential task. You can think of trademark monitoring like insurance: you may never need it, but you will sure be glad you have it if you do.
Trademark monitoring is the task of examining Read More

The number of federal and state laws and regulations that govern the workplace is ever increasing. Having a basic understanding about employment laws is important to avoid making mistakes that can lead to costly litigation. Below are helpful tips regarding three (3) issues that a small business sh Read More

The Canadian Intellectual Property Office defines a trade-mark as: A trade-mark is a word (or words), a design, or a combination of these, used to identify the goods or services of one person or organization and to distinguish these goods Read More

Once the trademark registration certificate comes in the mail, many people do not realize that this is not the end of the process with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Trademark registrations expire if not timely renewed, and allowing a registration for a trademark still in use to exp Read More

It takes a hundred posts to make you, and one post to break you. Your credibility as a blogger, that is. Make one memorable mistake in posting, and that's what people will remember, no matter how many posts you have that are well-thought out and correct. Even something as simple as an innocent Twee Read More

As with almost anything, the Internet contains a wide variety of valuable free resources for small business owners and entrepreneurs. The following is a list of some of the resources I use personally and recommend on a regular basis. Jeff Fabian is the owner of Fabian, LLC, a boutique intellectual Read More

Think your business is too small to worry about forming a business structure? Or it’s not ‘risky’ enough to think about liability issues? Too often female entrepreneurs believe that forming a corporation or LLC is only for those big businesses with mazes of cubicles and countless employees. Read More