Promissory Note: Is It Right For Your Business? Setting up a business takes a lot of careful planning, but more importantly it takes just the right amount of funding. When going through the initial steps of establishing a new business, sorting through the different loan options and funding opportunities can be extremely confusing. Among those…
Read MoreSecured vs Unsecured: Getting the Right Loan Funding a business is oftentimes the most difficult part of getting started on your own. Though everyone dreams of the angel investor, the reality is that many people simply do not have access to this type of contribution. Instead, the best approach for most new businesses is to…
Read MoreIs a Non-Compete Agreement Enough? With such a competitive business atmosphere today, many employers are finding it more difficult to protect all of their systems. A non-compete agreement was designed to ensure that all of your information and systems remained confidential while ensuring that your employees could not simply leave and take a chunk of…
Read MoreCopyright, Trademark, or Patent: Which is it? There are a variety of legal ways to protect your business from competition, but sometimes sorting through those options can seem like a difficult task. One item might require a copyright, another a trademark, and still another a patent. Whether it’s a new design, creative process, system, or…
Read MoreUnderstanding When You Need to Copyright Protecting your creative works can sometimes seem like a difficult task. With all of the different legal methods and strategies in place, the average business owner can’t make heads or tails of what type of protection to get on which product. There are trademarks, patents, trade secrets, copyrights, and…
Read MoreHow Should You Protect Yourself: Trade Secrets or Patents? There are a variety of ways to protect your secrets and inventions, but it helps to understand the difference in how they work. Two of the most popular ways to keep a method or invention safe are trade secrets and patents. Though a trade secret can…
Read MoreDo Trade Secrets Really Protect Your Inventions? If your business involves any sort of invention, proprietary software, or unique production method that gives you an advantage over the competition, it is important that you understand how to protect it. Depending on your industry and market, such trade secrets could be your company’s bread and butter;…
Read MoreHow Do You Properly Protect Trade Secrets? When you decided to start your own company, you took on all of the challenges and risks associated with business ownership. Most industries are competitive, especially those involving trade secrets. Once you understand what qualifies as trade secrets, you can then decide how to protect them from your…
Read MoreUnderstanding the Importance of Patent Filing There are few things more rewarding to an individual than to create something completely new and unique. New inventions are the perfect representation of progress and when you complete an invention it is natural to get excited and want to get it on the market as quickly as possible….
Read MoreBoston Non-Compete Agreement: They Are Here to Stay Over the course of this last year, there has been some debate within the Massachusetts government about the status and use of non-compete agreements within the workplace. Non-compete clauses have been a regular part of many employment agreements over the years and more recently tech companies have…
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