by Michael D. Steger | Jan 5, 2019 | Featured, Trademarks, Uncategorized
The rapid growth of the legal marijuana and cannabis industries has created a wide range of opportunities and challenges for lawyers advising clients developing businesses in that space. From challenges shipping products to land use issues to the inability to use...
by Michael D. Steger | Jul 15, 2018 | Copyrights, Featured, Trademarks
A new client recently engaged our firm to handle an increasingly common problem: someone had registered a domain name that was almost identical to the client’s own website. The only difference between the client’s domain and the fake site was an...
by Michael D. Steger | Jun 3, 2018 | Featured, Trademarks, Uncategorized
Unlike copyrights or patents, trademarks operate under a country-by-country legal regime. The legal force of a registered trademark evaporates when crossing a border to a nation where it is not registered. Without a registration in a country, a foreign trademark...
by Michael D. Steger | May 15, 2018 | Featured, Trademarks
As a trademark attorney, my clients often contact me about some solicitation that the client received in the mail, suggesting that they pay a hefty sum to have their trademark registered on some for-profit trademark list. These entities have lofty sounding names like...
by Michael D. Steger | Jan 1, 2018 | Featured, Trademarks, Uncategorized
“It makes no difference, night or day. The shadow never seems to fade away.” — The Band A potential client recently asked how is a service mark different from a trademark? This is a common question we receive. A trademark is anything that is used...