Successful businesses should protect their trademark rights. A trademark (or service mark) is typically one or more terms or symbols used to identify or brand a product or service. Businesses should be aware of and consider various aspects of trademark protection and some practice tips in selecting a trademark and applying for registration.
Tiffany and Bosco address some important issues that arise when businesses and individuals do business with Indian Tribes or Tribal Entities on Tribal Lands.
Like marital partners, business partners can have irreconcilable differences that require their separation. Business divorce is an area of the law that assists clients in the splitting of assets of the company or the business itself. Business divorce involves separating the conflicting owners and concluding the dispute-usually through negotiation, agreement, or if necessary, litigation.
Whether, and how long, to retain documents is a question plaguing businesses and individuals alike. The question of whether to keep original documents and letters (either sent or received), drafts, working copies, notes, memos, minutes of meetings, and now e-mails and all sorts of other digital/electronic documents (records” or “documents”) is constantly in conflict with …
Municipalities are charging sellers of real property, and in some cases unsuspecting purchasers and successive purchasers, what is commonly called a speculative builders tax upon the sale of improved real property. Sellers, purchasers and title companies beware of the HIDDEN real estate tax.