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THE CORONAVIRUS AND SMALL BUSINESS LAW SERIES This blog post series provides key legal tips to help you secure your business success during the Coronavirus pandemic.  With this knowledge, you can return to what you do best – your service or product. Today’s topic: Pivoting from Brick & Mortar to an Online Business during the […]

Trademark Alert A newly enacted USPTO rule in effect February 15, 2020 makes electronic communication mandatory in all trademark matters.   The Trademark Communication Rule at a Glance 🔷 All communication with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in Trademark matters must be electronic. 🔷 All trademark applications and documents must be filed using […]

Your business identity includes your company name, product name, tagline, and/or logo.  In addition, your business identity is personal, emotional, AND valuable. Registering the trademark for each business identity is a low-priced, high value action to secure your success. Furthermore, claiming your common law trademark rights using a trademark symbols is a no-cost first step. […]

Development of an innovation strategy builds an intellectual property “fence” for your company. This “IP” fence draws a boundary around your company’s intellectual property. What is intellectual property? It includes your patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and publications. The fence formation of the fence may take many forms. Offensive intellectual property positions: attracts investors and […]

Choose a business name, logo, and tagline that is strong and able to trademark register.

When a client comes to me with a legal dispute, requesting my help with conflict resolution, most times the dispute relates to a “relationship gone wrong.”  What does that mean exactly? At the beginning of a relationship, even a business relationship, you’re in what’s referred to as the “honeymoon phase”.  At these early stages, novelty […]

Twitter Username: @randikarpinia Account Owner Name: Chamberlin Okula Location: Russia Actual Fact – this happened to me.   You’ve probably heard of  impostors claiming to be celebrities, brands or company big-shots on social media platforms.  I learned the hard way that even us “relatively unknowns” can lose our social media identity to imposters.   I discovered […]

Registering the trademark for your business name is a low-priced, high value action to secure your success. So what is a trademark and why do I need one? What is a Trademark A trademark is a word, phrase, symbol, or design that identifies the source of goods. A service mark is the same as a […]

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant.”  Robert Louis Stevenson Sagacity Legal strives to interact, share knowledge, and guide entrepreneurs to protect their creations, business, and themselves. Its foundation grew solidly from the seeds I planted throughout my life. Seeds survive as dormant forms that only […]