Nine Things You Should Know About Probate
Posted on April 24, 2008 - Filed Under Legal and Law | Leave a Comment
The legal process of the distributing of the estate of a deceased individual is known as probate. Probate is often a time-consuming and confusing process for those who are involved. Most people lack a knowledge of the probate process because of inexperience with the process.
While probate is rarely easy, an adequate knowledge and understanding of the process can decrease stress, and increase your confidence that everything is being done properly. Anyone involved in probate should understand the following:
1 – In cases where a valid will exists, the individual named in the will as the executor is responsible to see that the deceased’s instructions are carried out.
Read More..>>International Trademarks And The Madrid Protocol
Posted on April 22, 2008 - Filed Under Legal and Law | Leave a Comment
Protecting your logo and so on with a trademark is a smart move. Ah, but what about protecting it in the United States AND internationally?
Filling for a trademark is a smart move for practically any business. Although the process can be lengthy, the final approval gives you the ability to stop competitors from using your mark to confuse consumers and perhaps steal them.
To obtain a trademark, one has to file an application with the Patent and Trademark Office. The application sets out the areas, known as classes, you wish the mark to apply to. Once the “PTO” approves your application, it is published for comment. Assuming no objections are raised, your trademark is approved. It is important to understand, however, the mark only applies to the United States.
Read More..>>Copyright Owners - How To Protect Your Work
Posted on April 19, 2008 - Filed Under Legal and Law | Leave a Comment
Daniel Woolsey is being sentenced for felony in California. He was caught selling pirated copies of Autodesk’s AutoCAD(R) software. Additional counts for selling other pirated software, including Adobe PhotoShop, were dropped as part of a plea bargain agreement. “This case should be a wake up call to copyright violators that they can face serious consequences. Autodesk will continue to work closely with law enforcement agencies . . . to protect our valuable intellectual property . . . .” said Sandy Boulton, director of Piracy Prevention at Autodesk.
Read More..>>Drug Abuse
Posted on April 18, 2008 - Filed Under Legal and Law | Leave a Comment
Use of illicit drugs like marijuana, cocaine and heroine and overuse of prescription drugs has been responsible for creating serious medical complications, destroying many family lives and creating problems for schools and communities. Teenagers and young people are particularly prone to excessive drug use and once they succumbed to the lure of drugs, they involve themselves in crime and accidents leading to poor performance in schools and society. It is needless to remind that the law punishes reckless drug users heavily.
Read More..>>Personal Injury Litigation - Negligence Cases
Posted on April 16, 2008 - Filed Under Legal and Law | Leave a Comment
Personal injury litigation can be classified into 2 different categories. These are as follows:
Negligence cases - These arise when the person causing the harm does not actually intend to do so.
Intentional acts/’torts’ - These are the wrongful acts of another person which entitles the injured party to seek damages through the court.
This article is about the first category, that is, the negligence cases.
When the person causing the harm shows carelessness towards the safety of other people and end up causing injury to the other person unintentionally, the cause of such an action is termed as “negligence”.
Read More..>>Typefaces, Fonts And Characters - Intellectual Property Protection In The United Kingdom
Posted on April 12, 2008 - Filed Under Legal and Law | Leave a Comment
Mechanically produced fonts and the characters comprising fonts are protected under UK law as typefaces. The legal definition for typefaces incorporates letters, numerals and ornamental motifs. Fonts and typefaces created for PCs, Apple computers and Linux systems however are protected are artistic works.
Electronically Created Typefaces
What is not made clear in the Act, but follows from basic principles of copyright is that electronically created fonts are protected by copyright, provided they are original. The protection is an indirect means of protecting the individual characters.
Read More..>>You Can Trademark A Lot More Than You Think
Posted on April 11, 2008 - Filed Under Legal and Law | Leave a Comment
Discussing a trademark in general is often difficult. Why? It has to do with the fact that you can trademark many things that are unique and entirely different.
When a person thinks of a trademark, most picture a logo of some sort. The swooping Coca Cola brand name is the classic example. Another example is the big red “O” you see in the television commercials for Overstock.com. Such examples of trademarks are fairly standard and most people can understand them without much effort.
Read More..>>Copyright Transfer Or License - How You Can Share Your Copyright And Still Keep It
Posted on April 2, 2008 - Filed Under Legal and Law | Leave a Comment
You can transfer the copyright to an image, either by selling it or giving it away. If so, you give up all rights that you had in the image as if you never took the photograph. But the only way to give up a copyright to an image is in writing.
Even when copies of a photo are distributed, the photographer retains the copyrights to the image. If you give your client copies of the digital files, without more, you are not giving up your copyrights.
Read More..>>Using A Mark You Cannot Trademark-be Careful
Posted on March 22, 2008 - Filed Under Legal and Law | Leave a Comment
When coming up with a logo or mark, there are plenty of options. Sometimes, people make a choice that cannot be trademarked and this leads to problems.
When you start a business, you probably have visions of huge success. At the same time, it can be difficult to plan for it when you are sitting in your home office or garage and just getting started. Unfortunately, this is when many of the most important steps are required to be taken. One is picking a mark to identify your products or services.
Read More..>>Internet Law In 2007
Posted on March 20, 2008 - Filed Under Home and Family, Legal and Law | Leave a Comment
As we start off the 2007 year, many in the web community probably have questions about what developments we can expect in web law in 2007. Well, the issues already appear to be coming together.
Internet Law in 2007
The beauty of the web is it is still a relatively new communication platform and is evolving on a daily basis. From a legal standpoint, this raises all kinds of issues and problems. The law prefers stability. It is also generally slow to react to new issues. Since the net is evolving on a daily basis, this puts the legal issues regarding it in some what of a time warp. Simply put, the law is a couple years behind on issues such as phishing, privacy and so on. Still, 2007 is cranking up to be an interesting year.
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