If you're in the process of picking a flagship trademark for your business or professional practice, then you need to understand the degrees of distinctiveness of various types of trademarks and why that is important to you and your business. Listen to today's podcast episode to learn more about trademarks that are generic, descriptive, suggestive, arbitrary or fanciful (and why it matters to you).

Some of a small business's most valuable assets are its intellectual property, including its trademarks. But careless trademark licensing can put a business's trademarks at risk. Without a proper measure of quality control over the goods and services sold by a trademark owner's licensees, the trademark owner jeopardizes the validity of its trademarks. Listen to today's podcast episode to learn more about avoiding a trademark abandonment through careless trademark licensing.

Entrepreneurs and small business owners (particularly those whose business involves content creation) need to know the basics of copyright registration.

Listen to today's podcast to learn more.

On April 14, 2020, the Small Business Administration published a new Interim Final Rule that provides helpful guidance for self-employed individuals who operate businesses as sole proprietors.

The new SBA Interim Final Rule explains how much a self-employed person who operates a business but who reports his or her net self-employment income on Schedule C of Form 1040 is eligible to borrow under the Paycheck Protection Program.

The new Rule also explains how much that self-employed borrower can "pay" himself or herself with the loan proceeds as replacement compensation and also how much of the loan can be forgiven and what type of documentation will be required to qualify for loan forgiveness.

Finally, the new Interim Final Rule clarifies the type of documentation an applicant for a PPP loan who is a self-employed person must provide to the bank in order to qualify for a PPP loan.

This podcast episode discusses how a self-employed business owner with no employees can document his or her PPP loan application, how much the borrower is eligible to borrow under the program, how much the borrower may wish to borrow, and how loan forgiveness works.

Entrepreneurs who pursue their business dreams through online retail sales, whether their goods are tangible products or digital information downloads, MUST understand the concept of "economic nexus" in order to avoid a potential sales tax problem down the road.

Listen to today's episode to learn more.

With much of the country on lockdown at present due to the COVID-19 pandemic, small business owners may be thinking of ways to prepare their businesses for a strong recovery once the lockdowns end.

But what can business owners do from home to prepare for the future?

Well, one thing that can be done is to look into whether the business might want to start the ball rolling on protecting a trademark that is expected to come online in the future, at some point after business gets back to the normal.

Today's podcast discusses Intent to Use Trademarks, and why now may be a good time to look into increasing a small business' portfolio of protected trademarks for the time when business gets cranking again and the business may want to start marketing products and services with one or more fresh trademarks.