Intellectual Property

14th May 2007
Being different from the rest always gathers prominence. Any commercial/ non-commercial product or service needs a certain degree of uniqueness to get their potential customers. Such distinctive character of a product usually becomes the registered tradem...

15th June 2007
The current number of immigrants in the country is about 37.46 millions and the 32% remains illegally in the US territory1. According to the Border Protection, Counter-Terrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control, approved last year by the government, the a...

29th April 2008
How to Patent an Idea What is a patent? A patent is a licence granted to an inventor for a specific time. A patent protects a new invention by giving the owner the right to prevent others from making, using, importing or selling the invention without...

11th May 2008
The county of Kent prides itself on offering a plethora of grants to help small and medium businesses. Yet, if you are to qualify for research and development business grants in Kent, you must go through the proper procedure, as outlined by the Selective ...

15th May 2008
To use a tired old cliche, information is power. And it's truer now than ever before. As the world inexorably moves towards becoming a knowledge economy, knowledge based businesses are coming to the fore. And even those that are part of the traditional...

15th May 2008
First child or first business, finding a nice name for it can make people work up a sweat. Looking for that perfect name which is suitable for your business, and is yet memorable and "creative sounding" could prove especially difficult. While we're ...

15th May 2008
Did you know that most progressive law firms use powerful software authoring tools to automate the arduous task of contract drafting? Would you like to save time, money, and aggravation by using similar tools to draft your own marketing contracts? H...

15th May 2008
Entrepreneurship comes with more baggage than one would expect. From designing a logo to picking a financial planner, a lot needs to be understood and executed systematically to succeed in commercial endeavors. The order of things could be particularly di...

21st May 2008
I'd like to challenge the way you think and see the world; not because you are wrong but because the world is changing. The future will look very different regarding marketing. One to one marketing is here to stay. Businesses want to track their return on...

21st May 2008
Obtaining a company logo is more than just making you feel that your company identity is complete. You are getting something to represent your company in print, something that people would easily remember your company by and associate your products with....

15th May 2008
Talking about business laws in microscopic detail would need a couple of months of your time! There is indeed a plethora of legislation that governs small businesses, ranging from state to county laws. Some are relevant to your business even today whe...

15th May 2008
The internet facilitates open and easy communication across the globe, and has made e-commerce possible. However, because of its unregulated nature, it poses a threat to the security of e-commerce systems. Hence, as an e-business owner, you should be re...

01st July 2005
(c) Jim Edwards - All Rights reserved ===================================== How safe is anyone's copyright online? Well imagine my surprise when I clicked on a website link to discover that someone had not only copied my website to their server -...

14th February 2008
If you'd like to capitalize on your business' intellectual assets, there's an old proverb that will fill the bill, if you'll learn how it applies today: "Finders, keepers; Losers, weepers." The Playground goes entrepreneurial! Our biggest corporations...

06th February 2008
Copyright (c) 2008 Axel Meierhoefer In the constant attempt to deepen knowledge and understanding of coaching, helping other people, and fulfill the motto of AMC of providing the 'Keys to Success', I have recently read the book "COACHING AND FEEDBACK F...

04th March 2008
Yesterday, while enjoying a pleasant walk down the cereal aisle in our local supermarket, my eyes were suddenly drawn to a small donkey and a giant green ogre staring at me from the front of a white cereal box. Instantaneously the picture brought to mind ...

17th January 2008
Most people think that business loans are all unsecured loans. However, it is possible to obtain secured business loans that can offer better loan terms than regular business loans with little risk for the borrower and for the lender. Commercial mortgages...

29th January 2007
If you were to ask an entrepreneur what factors are most important to the success of his or her business, you're most likely to hear - finding and keeping the right employees, affordable health insurance, protecting intellectual property and cutting thr...

17th August 2005
The Copyright Debate and RSS By S. Housley The Copyright Debate & RSS RSS is commonly defined as really simple syndication. So, this means that any material contained in a feed is available for syndication, right? Well no, not exactly. It means that ...

15th November 2006
Project management software is too often designed lacking one key element; a means for managing the processes that lead to a project's success. Some software developers have come to recognize this problem, resulting in a shift from the development of pro...

13th January 2007
Protecting private information Information is the lifeblood of most, if not all, modern organisations, so protecting (this) information against unauthorised disclosure, modification or erasure is a basic requirement of management. Executives and staff ...

13th December 2005
Image Tools Group today announces the release of an extended version of Easy Watermark Creator 1.5, a visual protection tool. The new version offers a wider support for batch work, the command line mode, and advanced options for EXIF tag information. It a...

05th March 2006
On March 3 the SoftInform company released a new version of the system for full-text search and similar documents search SearchInform 2.0. SearchInform 2.0 features a complete remake of the index creating process. This optimization trebled the speed ...

17th August 2006
Today wherein internet technology has become a way of life, many companies prefer selling their products online giving rise to eCommerce sites. No matter how much a company adheres to the rules and fundamentals of eCommerce, there still will be some probl...

09th August 2007
When I was a web design novice, I would visit the largest bookstores in London to see what was available to me. I was regularly disheartened when I realised that web design books tend to be based on one specific language, such as php or JavaScript whil...

16th November 2006
One of the biggest mistakes I made when I first had a light bulb moment about having a website to promote my business; was not doing some good old fashioned goal-setting to find out what this website was going to be for. Unfortunately I worked this out a...