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Business Law

How to Protect your Business Against Trademark Bullying?

Trademark bullying is the process of large worldwide famous companies aggressively asserting their trademark rights over smaller businesses. Even though it is a common practice in the trademark world for trademark owners to “police” the use of their trademarks in the market, sometimes big companies take this “policing” a step further, counting on the inability of small businesses to finance prolonged court litigation over their trademark rights.

Eric Gros-Dubois April 27, 2020

Intellectual Property Law

What do I do if my Instagram Account has been Disabled?

Instagram reserves the right to disable accounts that it believes violate their Community Guidelines or Terms of Use without warning. Accounts that have been determined to be in repeated violation may be permanently removed. So, what exactly are Instagram’s community standards and terms of use?

Silvino Diaz April 23, 2020

Intellectual Property Law

How Does the EU Data Privacy Regulation Affect U.S. Businesses? (Part 2)

What are the Rights of Data Subjects? Persons (i.e “Data Subjects”) are entitled to several rights in regard to their

Silvino Diaz April 23, 2020

Intellectual Property Law

How Does the EU Data Privacy Regulation Affect U.S. Businesses? (Part 1)

This regulation relates to both data privacy and data security. Data privacy is the right to control how information is collected and used; focusing on the use and governance of data. Data security, on the other hand, is focused on protecting data from, for example, attacks and exploitation of stolen data.

Silvino Diaz April 23, 2020

Intellectual Property Law

What is Important to Know About a Publishing Contract (Part 2)

Typically, an author does not receive royalties until the advance has been recouped. The advance is an advance against royalties. Usually, the amount paid to the author will depend on the format of the book being sold as well as on the book retailer selling it.

Silvino Diaz April 23, 2020

Intellectual Property Law

What is Important to Know About a Publishing Contract (Part 1)

The general trend in the publishing industry today is the growth in sales of ebooks and a decline in the print market. In 2018 it was observed that the bestseller lists have become dominated by mostly political works. Additionally, there is an ever-increasing boost in sales of works adopted for movies and TV series.

Silvino Diaz April 23, 2020

Business Law

How does the California Consumer Privacy Act Affect Florida Businesses?

California enacted the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) on June 28th, 2019, made effective on January 1st, 2020. The CCPA is the nation’s first comprehensive state data privacy law. The CCPA provides several new rights for California consumers regarding their Personal Information.

Silvino Diaz April 23, 2020

Intellectual Property Law

How to Prevent Cybersquatting

Cybersquatting or domain sharking is the act of registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name that is identical to, or confusingly similar to a registered trademark, with the bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of someone else’s trademark. By doing this, cyber squatters prevent anybody from buying the domain.

Eric Gros-Dubois April 22, 2020

Business Law

How to Patent Internationally

It is worth noting that the granting of the patents still remains in control of the national or regional patent offices. This is due to the fact that there is no universal patent law, and each nation has different legal standards for granting patents as well as enforcing them.

Silvino Diaz March 16, 2020

Business Law

Design and Author’s Rights (Part 2)

The expression of the idea, being the artist’s intention – the artist’s purpose in creating that work. If we assume that the work is called “post post post modernism”; that would be the expression.

Silvino Diaz March 10, 2020