How to Dominate the Internet: Book One: Protect Your BranD: Chapter 9 of 10: Further Reading
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Further reading and learning about IP law
So that’s a brief introductory guide to protecting your IP online. To learn more about IP law and IP protection, I would recommend strongly that you visit WardblawG’s friends at the award winning IP blog, the IPKat, founded and managed by Professor Jeremy Phillips. More >
How to Dominate the Internet: Book One: Protect Your BranD: Chapter 8 of 10: Look and Feel
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Look and Feel: enter Ryanair and easyJet
After you’ve developed your website, for which see Part 2 to come later this autumn, it is important to understand what you can and cannot protect. Generally, it is extremely difficult to protect the look and feel of your website. Take, for instance, airline More >
How to Dominate the Internet: Book One: Protect Your BranD: Chapter 7 of 10: Business Method Patents
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WardblawG has 30,000 very meaningful hits to its name, although 1000 of which have probably been made by me, my family and friends. Thank you to everyone who has viewed, subscribed and commented. As promised, today’s post is Chapter 7 of 10: Business Method Patents. Chapters 8, 9 and 10 More >
How to Dominate the Internet: Book One: Protect Your BranD: Chapter 6 of 10: Design, Right
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Design rights
Next, think about the material created for you for your business empire on the web.
If you have been smart or, more appropriately, skilled enough to design your own website or graphical materials yourself, this section is not designed for you. But if you got someone else to make you More >
How to Dominate the Internet: Book One: Protect Your BranD: Chapter 5 of 10: Creative Commons Licences
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Thereafter, you may want to think about procuring a Creative Commons Licence (“CCL”) for your material. That sounds so complex and convoluted though, is it not? No, it isn’t. As long as you say your material is granted under a CCL, others can distribute and share it, generally provided that More >
How to Dominate the Internet: Book One: Protect Your BranD: Chapter 4 of 10: Copyright
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Next, you might need to pull your hair out over getting copyright protection for your written work. But wait a minute, no you don’t! Copyright is granted to you automatically by the nice people that drafted and agreed the international copyright treaties. Such copyright protection exists for anything you write, More >
How to Dominate the Internet: Book One: Protect Your BranD: Chapter 3 of 10: Trade Marks
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Trade Marks
Third, if you have not already done so, apply for at least one trade mark to your national intellectual property office.
In the UK, this is the UK IPO;
In America it is the USPTO;
In Europe for Community Trade Marks (CTMs), it is the OHIM.
OHIM, Cybersquatting and the Art More >
How to Dominate the Internet: Book One: Protect Your BranD: Chapter 2 of 10: Domain Names
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Before beginning, I have a couple of important updates.
First, there is a live chat function at the left of this site. You can login under any pseudonym, but please don’t swear. And please be courteous to other users, so no flaming. We can discuss any legal issues you like for More >
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