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• What are the 4 Types of Intellectual Property?

  Alt Legal Team  |  September 18, 2022 5 min read

  Intellectual Property (IP) is the umbrella term for four primary types of IP: patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets. Practicing each type of IP requires spec...

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• Alt Legal IP News – Issue #203

  Bri Van Til  |  August 25, 2020 2 min read

  It's a good idea to research the cultural connotations for proposed trademarks so that you don't accidentally trademark a word that means "illness" or "fool" or "pubic ha...

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• Alt Legal IP News – Issue # 187

  Bri Van Til  |  May 05, 2020 2 min read

  Freeplay Music, which offers its songs for free for non-commercial use, is suing Ford for using the jams in their ads.A Canadian tech firm is accusing music-streamin...

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• Alt Legal Webinar: Creative Strategies For IP Protection in the Food Industry

  Alt Legal Team  |  April 30, 2020 < 1 min read

  In this webinar, Mark Leonard (General Counsel for Jelly Belly Candy Company) discusses the unique challenges in protecting IP for food products and how those challenges ...

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• Alt Legal IP News – Issue # 184

  Bri Van Til  |  April 14, 2020 2 min read

  Here is some advice for operating a fully remote law firm. And some advice for being more productive while working at home.If you're finding yourself with extra...

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• Alt Legal IP News – Issue # 179

  Bri Van Til  |  March 10, 2020 2 min read

  In case you have not yet heard, Alt Legal Connect is being rescheduled. We will follow up with more information as soon as we have new dates for the conference. ...

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