What is a Trademark? Think of a trademark (or servicemark for services) as a word, phrase, symbol or design that identifies and distinguishes one source of goods or services from another. It is not necessarily the name of your company but the mark that you use to identify your goods or services.
Why Register a [...]

This month InternetLitigators has been presented with several issues involving website development and design. We represent both web designers and webmasters regularly so our experience and comments on this issue are intended to address both sides of this deal.
Whether you are a Designer or a Webmaster there are a few things that you should always [...]

We receive inquiries quite often from prospective clients wanting “form” documents to use as Terms of Service to govern the use of their website or from webmasters inquiring whether or not a set of Terms drafted for one operator site (or worse, simply found on an unrelated website) can be used instead of having terms [...]

As the year draws to a close, December is our month for annual client reviews. We recommend that all of our clients conduct an annual legal review of their existing policies, procedures and content and, in general, there is no better time then the end of the year. The following are some of the areas [...]

This month we have seen several issues arise concerning the use of domain names with respect to the rights of registered trademark owners. Registering a domain name is not the same as registering a trademark and I thought some information as to the difference and how they might interrelate would be helpful. Understanding the difference [...]

We had an interesting issue come up this week. A new client called us wanting to get an estimate for the preparation of a new “Terms of Service” agreement prepared specially for his web site. This client was in the process of having a new version of his web site developed and wanted the terms [...]