Technology and Intellectual Property Law
Wilftek helps clients protect their business, brand, and creative assets, at various stages of their business development – from the initial spark of an idea, to building relationships with business partners and customers, to planning for strategic growth.
Intellectual Property
Protecting your brands, original works, and other intangible assets
About
Whether it was papyrus scrolls, hand-written books, the Gutenberg press or Gutenberg.org, what we now call information technology has always affected the development, publication, application and imposition of law and legal process.
Current and developing technologies make law and legal process less expensive and more accessible than ever before. Wilftek implements that vision by providing prompt, affordable legal services across the street or around the world.
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Video: Why And When Would You File For A Copyright
Fred Wilf
March 23, 2021
Video: Why And When You Would Create A Company
Fred Wilf
March 23, 2021
Video: Why And When Would You File For A Patent?
In this brief video, Fred Wilf explained how patent law differs from copyright and trademark law, and how inventors can protect their creations, as long as they are novel, useful, and non-obvious. He outlined the critical one year on sale/public disclosure deadline, the necessity for enabling disclosure and best mode, and the difference between provisional and full (utility) applications. He also reviewed strategic uses of patents: sword/shield, licensing, and cross licensing, in the context of a cost benefit analysis.
Fred Wilf
March 23, 2021
Video: Who Owns Work Created By A Freelancer?
In this brief video, Fred Wilf explained how freelancers could navigate and leverage various areas of intellectual property law to protect their work. He described the distinct ownership rules for copyrights, patents, trademarks, and trade secrets, and how protections could be affected by employment relationships, specific circumstances, or written agreements. Key topics included “work made for hire” (copyright), shop rights (patent), how use affects trademark rights, and safeguarding confidential information as trade secrets.
Fred Wilf
March 23, 2021
