Afrikaans Afrikaans Albanian Albanian Amharic Amharic Arabic Arabic Armenian Armenian Azerbaijani Azerbaijani Basque Basque Belarusian Belarusian Bengali Bengali Bosnian Bosnian Bulgarian Bulgarian Catalan Catalan Cebuano Cebuano Chichewa Chichewa Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Chinese (Traditional) Corsican Corsican Croatian Croatian Czech Czech Danish Danish Dutch Dutch English English Esperanto Esperanto Estonian Estonian Filipino Filipino Finnish Finnish French French Frisian Frisian Galician Galician Georgian Georgian German German Greek Greek Gujarati Gujarati Haitian Creole Haitian Creole Hausa Hausa Hawaiian Hawaiian Hebrew Hebrew Hindi Hindi Hmong Hmong Hungarian Hungarian Icelandic Icelandic Igbo Igbo Indonesian Indonesian Irish Irish Italian Italian Japanese Japanese Javanese Javanese Kannada Kannada Kazakh Kazakh Khmer Khmer Korean Korean Kurdish (Kurmanji) Kurdish (Kurmanji) Kyrgyz Kyrgyz Lao Lao Latin Latin Latvian Latvian Lithuanian Lithuanian Luxembourgish Luxembourgish Macedonian Macedonian Malagasy Malagasy Malay Malay Malayalam Malayalam Maltese Maltese Maori Maori Marathi Marathi Mongolian Mongolian Myanmar (Burmese) Myanmar (Burmese) Nepali Nepali Norwegian Norwegian Pashto Pashto Persian Persian Polish Polish Portuguese Portuguese Punjabi Punjabi Romanian Romanian Russian Russian Samoan Samoan Scottish Gaelic Scottish Gaelic Serbian Serbian Sesotho Sesotho Shona Shona Sindhi Sindhi Sinhala Sinhala Slovak Slovak Slovenian Slovenian Somali Somali Spanish Spanish Sundanese Sundanese Swahili Swahili Swedish Swedish Tajik Tajik Tamil Tamil Telugu Telugu Thai Thai Turkish Turkish Ukrainian Ukrainian Urdu Urdu Uzbek Uzbek Vietnamese Vietnamese Welsh Welsh Xhosa Xhosa Yiddish Yiddish Yoruba Yoruba Zulu Zulu

 

 

Article Navigation

Back To Main Page

 

Click Here for more articles
Google
Trademark Infringement
by: Mikki Barry
is a possibility for every business, whether you be on the receiving end of an infamous "Cease and Desist" letter, or whether you find that a competitor is infringing one of your trademarks. Either way, this is the time to find qualified legal assistance in the form of an experienced trademark attorney to help lead you through the quagmire.

If you have received a "Cease and Desist" letter, the first thing that you do should not be to respond to it, regardless of whether the letter tells you to or not. Instead, the first thing you should do is contact your trademark lawyer. If you don't currently have a trademark attorney, ask your business lawyer to refer you to one. If the business attorney claims s/he can take care of this for you, do not take them at their word on this. Inquire as to their actual trademark experience. This is not the time for someone who read a book or two to use you as their test client.

If you are on the other side, and you have found someone you believe to be infringing your trademark, now is also the time to contact your trusty trademark attorney. Be sure to think about the business aspects of the infringement as well. For example, the RIAA is taking quite a bit of heat lately because of their approach to copyright infringement. Suing your customers, especially when the customers may be innocent of wrongdoing, or single mothers, grandmothers, or non computer users in the case of RIAA, may not be a good business strategy. Making this decision along with your trademark attorney, weighing the pros and cons of taking action, is the best way to proceed.

About the author:
Mikki Barry has been a trademark and intellectual property attorney for technology and small business companies since 1991. For more information see www.mikkibarry.comThis article is not meant to be legal advice.


Circulated by Article Emporium

 


©2005 - All Rights Reserved

JV Blogs Visit free hit counter