190 articles on "trade"

Can A Photographer Take A Picture Of A Trademark?

A trademark, which is sometimes called a service mark, a trade name, a trade dress, etc, is a distinctive mark that a manufacturer uses to both distinguish their goods from others' as well and to symbolize its authenticity. A trademark can inclu...

Legal  legal trademark mark trade level federal valid combination
Is the U.S. Dollar About To Reverse Course?

Is the U.S. Dollar About To Reverse Course? by: Mike Fitzpatrick For the first time in several years the U.S. dollar has managed to gain value against the world’s other major currencies. During the first three months of 2005, the U.S. dollar i...

Business And Finance  business finance dollar currency states trade united major traders months
Overview of Trademark Law

Trademark law gives companies the exclusive right to use a given name or design, called a “mark,” for the purpose of identifying the source the of that company’s goods or services. Trademark law is an incentive-based system. Because it gives co...

Legal  legal mark product trademark companies descriptive goods
What Is Intellectual Property

Intellectual property... now there's a real 90's deal. Copyrights, trade marks, patents, have been around for a long while, and are generally understood by most people. However, those legalities didn't encompass concepts, in need of pr...

Legal  legal trade suchout offense authorization
Trademark a Slogan And You Can Protect Your Rights

Copyrights and patents are, at least in theory, granted for one-off fixed terms. On the other hand, trademarks are valid as long as the trademark owner actively defends and uses them. However, the owner must maintain his or her trademark registratio...

Legal  legal trademark trademarks mark owner
The Protectionism Delusion

Economists through years of study and practice have concluded that through free trade, based on the principal of comparative advantage, the world economy can achieve a more efficient allocation of resources and a higher level of material well-being. ...

Government  government trade barriers protectionism foreign which
Top Ten Most Searched States for Online TimeShares in 2003

Top Ten Most Searched States for Online TimeShares in 2003January 13, 2004, Virginia Beach, Va. – TimeShareSaver.com (www.TimeShareSaver.com), an online forum for the selling, buying and renting of timeshare properties and a division of Trader Publ...

Travel And Leisure  travel leisure timesharesavercom timeshare trader virginia sites researching
What is the Most Important Requirement of a Trademark?

Because a trademark has to be able to identify particular goods or services the most important requirement for a trademark is that it is distinctive. That is the only way that the trademark of one company can be distinguished from that of another com...

Legal  legal trademark distinctive name company dreams heavenly
Trends in Long-Term Incentives

Trends in Long-Term Incentives by: Paul R. Dorf, Ph.D., APD Upper Saddle River, N.J. – March 8, 2004 - Compensation Resources, Inc. released the results of a study they recently conducted of 642 companies covering the usage of Long-Term Incent...

Business And Finance  business finance companies compensation publicly traded indicated stock
God's Diplomacy - International Trade and the Macedonian Economy

s Diplomacy - International Trade and the Macedonian Economy by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. A British politician, Richard Cobden once (1857) wrote: "Free Trade is God's diplomacy and there is no other certain way of uniting people in the bonds of p...

Business And Finance  business finance country trade inflation importing