GENERAL INTEREST

Quality, Service & Price: Choose Two

Originally Posted 12/22/05 

The title is reminiscent of a sign that a friend of mine had posted behind the counter of his print shop in the early nineties. What made me remember this sign was my experiences over the past few months was my experiences over the past few months dealing with contractors and buying appliances […]

October 14th, 2008|

Three Chords and the Truth

Originally Posted 12/14/05 

 Part I

“All I’ve got is a red guitar . . . three chords and the truth” U2’s Bono reflects in their cover of Bob Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower”. If you take a look a most popular music these days, you might be surprised by how many songs consist of basically three chords […]

October 14th, 2008|

The Rocket Science Chronicles (Part II)

Oroganlly Posted 12/14/05 

Before we delve into my experiences starting and running the Denver Bicycle Design Center, Inc., it is useful to understand my prior work history and experience. I graduated from the University of Illinois in December of 1986 with a BS in Metallurgical Engineering. In my last year and a half of school I […]

October 14th, 2008|

Letting a Multi-Million Dollar Opportunity Slip Away!

Originally Posted on 11/10/05 

First off, this article is not what you think it is. In fact, it has absolutely nothing to do with intellectual property, patents or business law. Rather, this is less of an article and more of a story: a funny story that I can laugh about now but while it was happening, […]

October 14th, 2008|

The Rocket Science chronicles

Originally Posted 11/2/05 

INTRODUCTION

Prior to becoming an attorney in what now seems like a previous life I was an entrepreneur. After leaving my first engineering job out of college, I started the Denver Bicycle Design Center, Inc., which designed, manufactured and produced high end mountain bicycle components. These products, namely a ultralight aluminum/graphite/epoxy handlebar and stem, […]

October 14th, 2008|

Control Protect and Leverage, Part III

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED JUNE 12, 2005 BY KURT P. LEYENDECKER

And here it is… The newest installment in what was intended as a three part post but is threatening to become a book! I hope not!

Having covered protecting patents in Part II, we will consider protecting Trademarks in this entry.

Unlike patents, the Federal government does not grant […]

October 14th, 2008|

The Virus that Ate the Firm

Originally Posted on 10/21/05 

Ok, not really but it did slow things down to a snails pace on Monday and Tuesday! I am talking about virtumonde spyware. You will know you have if every once and while while surfing a new internet explorer window opens up with an advertisement. Most often the ad is for a […]

October 13th, 2008|

Update Re: Jolly Rancher Soda

Originally Posted on 10/6/05 

On August 17, 2005 I published an article that was intended to demonstrate the difficulty in determining whether or not a new product or invention would be successful in the marketplace. I made the point that even large companies can’t always predict whether a product will be a success. Often, excess inventory […]

October 13th, 2008|

Control Protect & Leverage PART IV

ORIGINALLY POSTED AUGUST 26, 2005 BY KURT P. LEYENDECKER

Finally, the second to the last installment in the series!

And really this is perhaps the most important point of your Intellectual Property. What is the point of controlling it and protecting it if you do not intend to leverage it? Unfortunately, successfully leveraging your IP can be […]

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