GENERAL INTEREST

Moving on up – and out

Some of you may have noticed that our firm has not published a new column in a few weeks now. The reason for this is that we were engaged in a Major Office Move.  You know the kind: anguished over for months, thought about repeatedly at 3 a.m. and again at 6 a.m. and over […]

June 11th, 2012|

Clash of the tax and retail titans

Since I counsel a lot of online businesses, including online retailers, I am often asked about the sales tax implications of online sales. Generally speaking, the answer is pretty easy: If you are a Colorado business and sell goods to individuals residing in Colorado, then you have to collect Colorado sales tax and the appropriate […]

A grape by any other name is still a grape…

 

When launching a new company or adding a new product or service, a name must be determined to brand the company, product or service. In the legal field, we refer to brand names and logos identifying a good as a trademark; and brand names and logos referring to services as […]

April 30th, 2012|

Colorado Intellectual Property Attorney writes about protecting your business online: recent changes to top-level domains part 1

Policing how your trademark or business name appears on the Internet is important to insure it is being displayed in the manner you want. Even if your business’s online presence is minimal, recent changes in how generic top-level domain (“gTLD”) names are assigned could have significant impact on your company. These changes will affect how […]

September 27th, 2011|

Make your Trademark “Google Friendly”

When choosing a trademark for a product or service your company provides, make the mark “Google friendly”.  A video blog post by Kurt Leyendecker of the law Firm of Leyendecker and Lemire.  Find us on the web at Coloradoiplaw.com or call 303.768.0123.

November 23rd, 2010|

Resources for Inventors and Entrepreneurs

I was able to catch a few minutes of the Patent Office’s 15th Annual Independent Inventors Conference web cast.  The speaker was from the Kaufman Foundation, an organization dedicated to fostering and promoting entrepreneurship in the United States.  If you are not familiar with these folks, their website is perhaps worth checking out.  See

November 5th, 2010|
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