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Peoria Legal Blawg
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- May 09
Protecting Your Intellectual Property: The Importance of Trademarks
by Brian A. Peterson, VanFleet Law Offices
Whether you are an experienced business owner, or an entrepreneur about to embark on starting your first business, acquiring trademark protection is crucial for your company's success. A federally registered trademark allows your company to maximize its brand value, and prevents your competitors from using the same mark, or a confusingly similar mark, on their products or services.
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- May 04
LAW FIRM RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT: IS THERE SUCH A THING?
As is the case whenever law firm managers convene, the 2012 American Bar Association Legal Technology Conference had no shortage of opinions regarding the future of the practice of business law. I heard many complaints this year about the evolution of products such as “LegalZoom,” or on-line organizations that provide legal document packages for a variety of business legal needs at a fraction of the price charged by any law firm.
Even more predominant than the “LegalZooms” of the world, this conference was saturated with discussions of the emerging corporate philosophy that law firms’ profit margins have been too high. Businesses want to see greater value delivered from their law firms as they correspondingly reduce their legal budgets. In short, the buzzword cliché of service industries has finally caught up to law firms: we must become better, cheaper, and faster.