Obtaining a trademark registration at the United States Patent & Trademark Office is perhaps the most predictable way to establish trademark rights. The process is not without a few frustrations, but I think well worth it in the end. Clients are very excited to receive their trademark registration from the USPTO, but that’s not the end of it. To get the most value from a USPTO registration, there a few things you will need to do.

Opinions are essential in product and service development, and when we talk about the need for a legal opinion, we’re not talking about your opinion, we’re talking about mine.

What separates the winners from the losers? Good question, right? In the game of company-building, what separates the wheat from the chaff? I've worked with services-based and products-based companies, and the same principles of success apply. The winners always have a strategy, and the losers usually don't.