Avoid the Legal Horrors with Julie King: Patent, Trademark, and Business Strategy

Avoid the Legal Horrors with Julie King: Patent, Trademark, and Business Strategy

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Avoid the Legal Horrors with Julie King: Patent, Trademark, and Business Strategy episodes

  • I Give You My Heart, But Not My Copyright

    Valentine’s Day can be a time for romance, chocolates, and . . . copyright law? That’s right! If you pour your heart into a sincere love letter, a romantic poem, a beautiful painting, or even a heartfelt social media post, copyright laws are automatically involved. Who actually owns those expressions of love? The creator, the person they are intended to impress, or someone else?

    This Valentine’s Day week I’m talking about the intellectual property of love, but what I’m saying applies year-round and to far more than love letters.

    4 min
  • That Name or Logo You’re Using? It May Be Trademark Infringement!

    💥 Imagine spending thousands on branding and marketing, only to get a cease-and-desist letter because your business name, logo, slogan, or other piece of brand identity is

    too close to someone else’s. 💥
    That’s called trademark infringement, and it can shut you down and cost you a bundle. Let’s make sure that doesn’t happen to you.

    3 min
  • Are You Stealing Without Knowing It? Copyright Infringement in Marketing

    🚨 Did you know that using the wrong image, song, or video clip in your marketing could land you in a lawsuit? 🚨

    Copyright infringement doesn’t just happen to big corporations—it’s a major risk for small businesses too.

    Today, I’ll walk you through how to stay safe.

    This applies if you create your own marketing content or if

    you have your internal marketing department or hire a marketing service to do it for you. If you use the wrong thing, YOU’RE going to be the one in trouble. (I’ll have another post later on protecting yourself from someone else’s
    mistake.)

    4 min
  • Do you REALLY Own Your Business Name?

    You put a great deal of effort in choosing the perfect name for your business. You registered the business with the Secretary of State in every state in which you operate. That’s all you need to own your business name, right? Wrong.

    Most if not all states’ business registration offices don’t even check their state’s own trademark databases when approving a name for LLC/corporation/partnership

    registration to see if there is a conflict, let alone check the federal USPTO trademark database.

    . . .

    If this post scared you a bit, it was supposed to. Most people don’t know about this incredibly important information, and that makes them vulnerable to expensive and devastating problems. Now you aren’t one of those people, and you

    know what you need to do to prevent those problems!

    I hope this helps you feel empowered and inspired to take action if you don’t already have your business name registered as a trademark. You deserve to have that peace of

    mind!

    5 min
  • How a Patent Dies

    For the Day of the Dead, the last in this year's spooky-themed Patrifying Patents episode. This one is about how patent applications and issued patents can die, either by a premature visit from the Grim Reaper or of old age natural causes.

    8 min
  • Gravely Grim

    Buckle up my beasties! This Halloween night episode helps you learn more about patents by digging into patents for strange burials, exploding graves, creepy dolls, and more! Happy Halloween! 👻

    11 min
  • Ghoulish Games

    Get your ghoulish patent game on by watching this episode, in which I cover a game inspired by the 1973 horror film The Exorcist and do a deep dive into the intellectual property of the long history of the Ouija board. See if you can spot some lyrics from "Sympathy for the Devil" and a reference to the original "13 Ghosts" film. Learn a lesson the makers of the movie "Witchboard" learned the hard way. Hear about one of the things Alistair Crowley was afraid of.

    16 min
  • Creepy Candy Carriers

    In this episode of Petrifying Patents, Julie King talks about various aspects of patents, using the pumpkin-shaped candy carriers we all love. This episode is ok to show to kids or watch at work. Nothing gets too scary.

    8 min

About Avoid the Legal Horrors with Julie King: Patent, Trademark, and Business Strategy

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Your business has IP worth protecting. Your brand deal contract may be signing it away. Your AI tools may not be as confidential as you think. I'm Julie King, a patent, IP, & business attorney with 25+ years of experience, and I make intellectual property and business law actually interesting—with a rock-and-horror twist. Patents, trademarks, copyright, trade secrets, brand deals, and business law for small business owners and creators. No jargon. No condescension. Just the stuff you actually need to know. Avoid the legal horrors and keep rocking your IP. 💀🎸