Category: Corporate

Many business owners treat a cookie consent banner as a formality — a pop-up visitors click through before getting on with whatever brought them to the site. From a legal standpoint, that framing gets it backwards. The banner is a symptom. The real issue is whether your website is activating non-essential tracking technologies before obtaining […]

Running an e-commerce business involves far more than selecting products and setting up a checkout flow. Every online store operating in the United States has legal obligations that govern how it collects customer data, advertises products, handles email marketing, and designs its website. Ignoring these obligations — even unintentionally — can result in regulatory fines, […]

Running a Shopify store is one of the most accessible ways to launch an online business, but accessibility does not mean the business is insulated from legal liability. Many store owners assume that because Shopify provides the platform, Shopify also shields them from legal claims. That is not how the law works. Shopify supplies the […]

If you own a trademark that another business is using without permission, your first instinct may be to pursue a trademark dilution claim. But dilution is a narrow legal theory reserved for a specific category of marks, and the evidentiary bar is high. Unlike a traditional infringement claim — where you prove that consumers are […]

Many developers and technology founders assume that because software is built from lines of code, it cannot be patented. The reality is more nuanced. Software can be patented in the United States, but the path to protection requires careful planning. After the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International, 573 U.S. […]

Your website represents years of work — the writing, the structure, the voice, the expertise you have built into every page. From detailed practice area descriptions to original blog posts and product copy, your content is a business asset that helps potential clients find you, understand your services, and choose to work with you. When […]

Most business owners understand trademark infringement: someone uses a name or logo confusingly similar to yours, and customers get misled. But trademark law protects certain brands from a second and distinct legal threat — one that does not require consumer confusion at all. Trademark dilution protects famous marks from uses that weaken their distinctiveness or […]

Raising capital requires sharing information — and sharing information creates risk. Before a startup pitches to investors, the founders have usually built something worth protecting: original software, a novel process, a proprietary design, or confidential business logic. Once that information is disclosed to an investor, a competitor, or even an advisor, taking it back becomes […]

When a company acquires a startup, the most valuable assets on the table are usually intangible. Software, brand identity, patents, proprietary algorithms, and trade secrets often represent the core of what makes a startup worth acquiring in the first place. The assumption that goes into almost every acquisition is that the startup owns these assets. […]

Copyright protects original works the moment they are created — articles, photographs, software code, videos, music, and other creative expression are all covered automatically under U.S. law. But automatic protection and enforceable protection are not the same thing. When infringement happens, the most important question is not whether you own the copyright. It is whether […]