Many businesses these days use social media to help reach customers. They post status updates on Facebook – they tweet sales and thoughts on Twitter. It’s working too! Customers love to keep up to date with what’s on sale, what discounts are being offered and special promotions. Customers especially love the interactive nature and informal […]
By: Mark R. Malek This concludes the series of articles that I have been writing on entity status in the United States Patent Office. The first article introduced the new micro-entity status. The next article gave some background information on what would happen if you claimed the wrong entity status before the USPTO, and the latest […]
Does Facebook have the right to use your photos without your permission? Are your intellectual property rights over personal photos and videos forfeited when posted to Facebook? I am going to address both of these questions separately. Let us start with the first question. Can Facebook use your photos without your consent? No. Facebook does […]
