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What Is Intellectual Property?
Property law is not limited to places or things, but also includes inventions, literary and artistic works, brand names used in commerce and expert knowledge.
What Is a Trade Secret?
One way to protect your intellectual property is to tell no one. The invention, the composition that great business idea—no one can steal them from the vault of your mind. Lock the door, hide the key, and no one will take it from you.
What Is a Trademark?
A trademark is a design, symbol, word or phrase that identifies the source of your products and distinguishes them from the products of other companies. For example, the word “Coca-Cola” is a trademark, as are “Coca-Cola” written in stylized script and the original curvy Coca-Cola bottle design.
What Can You Patent
The United States Constitution specifically grants congress the authority to pass patent and other intellectual property laws. The Patent Act defines what kinds of things can be patented, but no matter what you choose, patents are only granted to inventions that are new and novel. This means no one else has already patented your invention, or that a person familiar with the field could not easily figure out what you've done.
Copyright Basics: What Is a Copyright and Why Is It Important?
Some of the most valuable parts of a business may be its intellectual property, which includes patents, trademarks and copyrights.
Understanding Soft Intellectual Property
Intellectual property is any work or idea created either by the human mind or by a computer, including copyrights, patents, trademarks, and trade secrets. Although "soft intellectual property" is sometimes used to refer to any intellectual property that is not a patent, the term is not fully accepted in the legal community.
Whole Health for Seniors: Staying Physically, Mentally, and Socially Well
What if making a simple lifestyle change could boost your health in a big way? Would you try it? ChenMed's Jessica Chen, MD, an internal medicine specialist who focuses on seniors, shares some easy and doable things you can do to improve your whole health — body, mind, and spirit.
14 Smart Ways Seniors Can Cut Medical Costs
Are rising healthcare costs hammering your budget? If so, you're not alone. One in four people on Medicare laid out 30% or more of their income on healthcare in 2006, according to a recent analysis by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
What Are the Different Kinds of Nursing Home Abuse Claims?
Statistics generated by government oversight reveal that nursing home abuse is a serious and persistent problem in the Sunshine State. Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) oversees compliance with federal and state laws about nursing care facilities in Florida that accept Medicare and Medicaid (which comprise all but about two percent of homes).
Social media: The new public square for fraudsters
Fraudsters and hackers have been flooding the social scene in recent years, coming together to sell and trade illicit goods. If you search for “botnet,” “hacking,” “CVV2,” or any other cybercrime-related term on most social media platforms, you will be surprised to find a plethora of fraud groups and cybercriminal activity operating in plain sight.
Open Banking: The future of banking
The journey from unbundling to rebundling and back has been a formidable one. Open Banking and emerging technologies and the pace of innovation are driving changes throughout the banking industry at an unprecedented rate.
The Safe Way to Cancel a Credit Card
You’ve heard the advice: Never cancel a credit card account or you could damage your credit scores. And while it is true that closing a credit card can be hard on your credit scores, that isn’t always the case.
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