The Difference Between Copyrights, Trademarks, and Patents
Overview Copyrights, patents, and trademarks are the three main areas of intellectual property law and their differences mean that each offers you different avenues for protecting your rights. Inventors, business owners, and artists are all creative people and if you fall into any of these groups it is to your advantage to understand the differences […]
What To Expect When Calling A Patent & Trademark Lawyer
What Should You Expect When Calling An Intellectual Property Lawyer Patent attorneys can be indispensable partners in helping you patent and protect your new invention and other intellectual property. They will give you critical advice on successful patent applications and help you get justice when infringement occurs. If you have intellectual property you want to […]
Minnesota Law Firm Highlighted In “Attorney At Law” Magazine
Kaufhold & Dix, A Minnesota Law Firm Specializing In Intellectual Property, Recognized As ‘Attorney At Law Magazine’ Law Firm of the Month Many laws have been put forward to protect ideas and inventions. Intellectual property (IP) covers concepts such as copyrights, patents, and trademarks. As part of the “Law Firm of the Month” feature in Attorney […]
What makes working with an IP attorney important?
If you ever stray into a conference of patent attorneys, you might feel you just walked into a bar on an alien planet. Conversations don’t seem to be taking place in English. The seemingly incomprehensible language of the patent world is something that has developed over the course of decades, driven by the demands of […]
Why protecting your invention is essential
If you are an inventor, then you know just how valuable your ideas are and how important it is to protect them from others who may attempt to counterfeit or copy them as their own. One of the most important steps in terms of protecting your intellectual property is to apply for a patent for […]
ADR is big, does it work in IP disputes?
People, being people, have disagreements. Relationships of all kinds get put at risk if disputing parties let the issue fester. Within the legal context, the traditional approach to this dilemma has been to litigate. Historically, the process involves bringing the dispute into the open. Negotiations follow, pressed by the knowledge that unresolved issues could wind […]
Basic steps for protecting intellectual property
In the salad days of piracy, the activity was very face to face. One craft, usually small and light, would outmaneuver a cargo-laden bigger vessel on the high seas and snatch the goods. Maybe with some bloodshed. Today, piracy is most common in cyberspace. Anonymity reigns. Culprits don’t have faces and they mask their IP […]
IP protection: Safely navigating the long and winding road
“You have to spend money to make money.” That’s a phrase any budding entrepreneur has likely heard at some point. According to various sources, the line is credited to a Roman poet, philosopher and playwright and dates to several hundred hears before the start of the common era. Not everyone agrees that it’s true, but […]
How can I protect my intellectual property?
If you have invented a unique item or come up with some distinct ideas in the Sioux Falls area, you should take measures to protect your work and efforts. There are many things that happen that could cause you to lose the rights to your creations. For example, someone you are working closely with could […]
Delaying IP protection steps could be financial suicide
Where does pursuit of intellectual property protection fall on the continuum of steps to bring an amazing idea to market? Most inventors and entrepreneurs ponder this question at some point. Everyone probably has his or her own answer. As experienced patent law practitioners, our view is that many people take a “cart before the horse” […]