Business Lawsuits
Find information about the most common types of business lawsuits:
- Copyrights – A copyright infringement lawsuit can occur for any number of reasons: someone using a song in a podcast or radio program, a writer “borrowing” information from another work, copying video or mp3 off the Internet without permission (or sometimes, even to another CD or DVD). Copyright infringement lawsuits are not generally brought to the average person, unless they’re downloading a LOT of music or movies, but usually for large operations: software pirates reselling goods on eBay or to some other unsuspecting victim, someone “sampling” a song to make another, or maybe a person reselling mp3s online.
- Patents – You have a patent. You spend blood, sweat and sleepless nights raising your intellectual baby to adulthood (a patent). Now a kidnapping has occurred. Someone is using your offspring to get an unholy profit. It has to stop. What is your recourse? Well the natural flow of events is patent litigation. The steps that follow are of increasing severity (and expense). Your goal is not to go to court, but to put enough pressure on the violating person or company, so that they will concede to your just demands. However, it makes no sense to turn off a profitable venture. What makes sense is to tap into their profits.
- Trademarks – Trademark infringement is one of the thousands of legal harassments that a small business owner may face. But before getting into how to save your company from litigation you need to understand what is trademark and why do you need to protect it. It can be a single word, a phrase, a symbol or a combination of these three that helps customers to identify your particular brand. For example, the phrase “I’m lovin’ it” is the trademark of an international chain of fast food and beverages outlet. Using the same for your business will surely call for a lawsuit. This theory also applies to small organizations. You too can file a lawsuit against any company so as to protect yourself from trademark infringement.
