Copyright
Ideas are your Greatest Assets
The most valuable assets many companies and small businesses have is their intellectual property. Creative ownership is one area where expansion and growth possibilities are limitless. While creative resources are inexhaustible, careful companies and small businesses should take steps to protect those resources from exploitation by others while maximizing their investment in intellectual property.
Stone Law can assist in making beneficial use of your intellectual property while keeping it protected. Some of the services we offer include:
- Copyright registration
- Works for hire and copyright ownership agreements
- Co-development, co-marketing, and co-promotion arrangements
- Infringement suits
- License grant backs, sublicensing rights, anti-foundry provisions
- Licensing and other intellectual property transactions
- Open source issues
- Research transactions
- Royalty and payment issue resolution
- Software development and licensing
- Technology transactions (development, acquisition, licensing and distribution)
- Business transaction copyright due diligence
Trademark
Keeping your Brand in Business
A trademark is a valuable part of a business’s identity—identifying the source of goods and services and conveying a cultivated brand message. Trademarks can develop organically through simple use, or through a planned strategy that positions a business for continued growth and recognition locally, nationally and internationally. Identity and Brand are invaluable commercial currency in today’s fastpaced, digitally connected world. All businesses should proactively protect these investments to prevent any uncertainties or conflicts in the future.
Stone Law Group offers the following trademark services:
- US Patent and Trademark Office filings
- Trademark and Trade Dress registration
- Trademark infringement and dilution actions
- Trade Secrets and confidentiality
- Trademark protection on the internet
- Trademarks, Trade Dress and Domain Name screening searches
- Trade names and business identifiers
Internet Law
Managing your Presence Online
Companies, small businesses and entrepreneurs have to maximize their use of the internet in today’s economy. Gone are the days when the phone directory was the first place people look for information. Successful businesses and non-profit organizations use the Internet and its unprecedented social networking opportunities to market and sell goods, provide services, manage information and conduct fundraising activities.
The internet has grown exponentially, firmly establishing itself as a major consideration in today’s business environment. Carefully planning how a company conducts itself in regard to Internet technology, establishing best practices, and properly identifying strategic targets can limit liability and maximize the success and profitability of new and established businesses.
In this area Stone Law advises and provides legal support regarding:
- Domain Name disputes
- Privacy and data mining
- Service Provider liability
- Trademarks and Copyright on the internet
- Web page linking and liability
- Web site development legal issues
- Information technology policies
- Electronics in commerce
- Internet privacy
- Social Media and business liability
- Businesses and cloud computing
- Virtual office risk and liability management
Business Law
Writing the Rules of the Game
Business law is a combination of privately agreed upon rules of conduct and more formal state and federal laws and regulations. Businesses are free to create their own private law through contracts and agreements in order to facilitate commerce and business growth. Competitive and successful businesses use the flexibility of privately agreed upon rules and laws to conduct their business in a manner tailored to encourage success.
Developing ongoing relationships with other businesses in the market place is best accomplished by competitive negotiations and clear, thoughtful agreements that clarify, rather than confuse, each party’s rights and responsibilities.
The legal support, advice, and representation Stone Law offers small and medium sized businesses includes:
- Business opportunity fraud
- Debt collection
- Employment and service contracts
- Entity selection and formation
- Franchise investment protection
- Liens and priority issues
- Operating and Partnership Agreements
- Personnel policies
- Risk management and asset protection
- Secured transactions
- Securities issues (sales of notes; stocks; treasury stocks; bonds; debenture; evidence of indebtedness; certificates of interest or participation in any profit-sharing agreements; collateral-trust certificates; preorganization certificates or subscriptions; transferable shares; and investment contracts)
- Service contracts
- Unified Business Code transactions and issues
