A “Privacy Policy” commonly refers to what is technically a business’ “Privacy Statement” or “Privacy Notice”. The policy is made up of the internal and external Read more....
Web Scraping: Pitfalls and Proactive Best Practices
If your business relies on insights from reviews, comments or other aggregated data, chances are that you are tempted to engage in a little (or a lot of) web scraping. Web scra Read more....
Make it a Policy to Protect Your Business From Privacy Threats
2016 will be remembered as the year that privacy became the buzzword small businesses took notice of. We saw the establishment of the first ever Federal Privacy Council this ye Read more....
Minors Making Payments: The Cost of Violating COPPA & Easy Fixes to Make Now
A Time Old Tale: A Founder’s (Frenetic) Internal Thoughts 2 weeks to launch date. So many things to do. But first, another cup of coffee. Oh, but before that, let me ping th Read more....
Can you Keep a (Trade) Secret? The Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016
Before May 11, 2016, only three out of four forms of intellectual property – patents, trademarks and copyrights – were protectable and enforceable at the federal level. The Read more....
Copyright & Copywrong: What are Derivative and Transformative Works?
Recently, we’ve been asked several times about the nature of a certain work as it relates to copyright infringement. “Is my work a derivative of theirs? I should be Read more....
The Falsity of the Frivolity of Fashion Law
“Fashion Law”. It sounds like an oxymoron, doesn’t it? After all, fashion, which typically evokes images of supermodels and Anna Wintour, is more “The Devil Wears Prada Read more....
Participation vs. Endorsement: What Does Your Hashtag Contest Mean to the FTC?
Recently the FTC issued a warning letter to Cole Haan for a hashtag contest they were promoting on Pinterest, Contestants had to create a Pinterest board and post five pictur Read more....
Working Interviews
Working interviews are a good way to see if the interview candidate has the basic necessary skills for a job, especially where a resume description of the skill may not suffice Read more....
Too Broad, Too Narrow or Just Right? The Importance of Classifications in Trademark Applications
At first glance, it may seem peculiar that the same trademark office would allow the registration of seemingly very similar trademarks; take “Apple Records” (the Beatles-fo Read more....