Trademarking a Name Has Never Been This Easy Or Affordable

Trademarking a name is one of the basic necessities of business life. A trademark is one of the fundamental assets of any business. Trademarks set you apart from your competition. They secure your identity and protect your intellectual property. If you were to go to the United States Patent and Trademark Office at uspto.gov you will find that there is a rather lengthy and somewhat complicated process involved in securing a trademark. Even before you begin the application process you will need to determine the type of intellectual property protection…

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Plagiarizing Content is Not Ethical

You found it on the internet to it’s free to take and use right? Wrong. Just because you see something on the web doesn’t mean you can grab it and pass it off as your own. Recently I was alerted to the fact that someone had taken an article of mine, changed ‘VA’ wherever it appeared to their company name, and then uploaded it as their Benefits page. This is NOT okay. Changing it ‘just a little bit’ does NOT make it yours. This trend is not new. VAs around…

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