{"id":340,"date":"2015-08-24T21:03:39","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T21:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amerilawyer-blog.local\/?p=340"},"modified":"2017-03-28T20:47:32","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T20:47:32","slug":"protecting-your-business-intellectual-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amerilawyer.com\/blog\/business\/protecting-your-business-intellectual-property","title":{"rendered":"Protecting Your Business&#8217;s Intellectual Property"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For many <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amerilawyer.com\/form_a_corporation\/corporation.htm\" target=\"_blank\">small business owners<\/a><\/span>, the topic of intellectual property makes them run in the other direction because of the fallacy that it is not worth their time or effort to secure intellectual property rights. However, many emerging businesses soon discover that a competitor is using their ideas such as packaging, logos, names and other protectable items costing them lost revenue due to consumer confusion.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike patents, which must go through a rigorous application process with the United States Patent and Trademark Office,<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amerilawyer.com\/trademark\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">trademarks<\/a> <\/span>can be obtained with relative ease. Your company&#8217;s name, logos, slogans and any other identifiable marks consumer relate to recognize your company and its products or services must be<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amerilawyer.com\/trademark\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">registered trademarks<\/a><\/span> to be protected from your competitors. Your company&#8217;s reputation is at stake &#8211; you must be armed with registered trademarks to protect your company<\/p>\n<p>Do not delay; call us today or visit our<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.AmeriLawyer.com\/trademark\" target=\"_blank\"> website<\/a><\/span> to get the process started!<\/p>\n<p>(800) 603 \u2013 3900<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amerilawyer.com\/trademark\" target=\"_blank\">www.AmeriLawyer.com\/trademark<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,72,6,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-entrepreneur","category-legal-services","category-trademark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amerilawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amerilawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amerilawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amerilawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amerilawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.amerilawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amerilawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amerilawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amerilawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}