Archive for category: Business Law

Making Your Business Valuable: Trademarks and Trade Secrets (part 2)

March 2, 2016/0 Comments/in Business Law, Contracts, Trade Secrets /by Erica

Part 2: Shhhhh! It’s a Secret! What do you consider the bread-and-butter of your business? Something that you want to keep away from your competitors such as a secret recipe passed down in your family for generation? Or perhaps something a little more mundane such as a customer or client list? You may be thinking—customer […]

Making Your Business Valuable: Trademarks and Trade Secrets (part 1)

January 26, 2016/0 Comments/in Business Law, Trademarks /by Erica

Part 1: Branding Your Business with a ®oar! When I say “the Golden Arches®,” what pops into your mind? The place you begged your parents to take you for a Happy Meal®? (I’ll be shocked if it wasn’t the McDonald Corporation as it has done a magnificent job of branding its business worldwide.) The nifty […]

Why Hobby Lobby Is Bad For Business

July 30, 2014/0 Comments/in Business Law /by The Stambler Law Office

Hobby Lobby. The infamous June 30, 2014 U.S. Supreme Court decision blew up on social media, blogging websites, and television satiric news programs. The plurality opinion [see footnote 1] was controversial for numerous reasons such as: Women’s voices versus a corporate’ voice. Business owner’s exercising control over medical decisions. Secular companies having religious beliefs. And […]