April 22, 2025 | Intellectual Property, Trademark
If you want to stop people who might utilize the marks associated with a brand you own, the first thing you need to do is register those marks with the USPTO. However, your work does not stop at registering your marks – the real deterrent comes ...
April 8, 2025 | Immigration, Immigration News
Hello HR Heroes, Legal Leaders, and Hiring Maestros!
In this April newsletter, here is what's inside:
✅ Sign up for our H-1B Cap Selected & Not Selected Webinars
✅ The Corporate Immigration Advantage Book Goes Live! Join the ...
April 2, 2025 | Copyrights, Intellectual Property
In 2018, Stephen Thaler attempted to get copyright protection for a piece of visual art called “A Recent Entrance to Paradise.” The work was created by DABUS, an AI system made by Thaler. Interestingly, Thaler did not apply for a copyright for ...
February 25, 2025 | Compliance and Enforcement, Copyrights, Florida Construction Law, Intellectual Property, Newsletter, P-1, Public Records
At the end of January, the Copyright Office released part two of its long-awaited report offering guidance on the copyrightability of AI-created works. For those who have been paying close attention over the past year, the Copyright Office’s AI ...
December 23, 2024 | Intellectual Property
If you are like a lot of small business owners, you may not have given a whole lot of thought to protecting your intellectual property (IP) assets. You are probably extremely busy just trying to keep the lights on and grow your business into ...
October 16, 2024 | Intellectual Property, Trademark
A long-standing trend of the tech world is “industry disruption,” which often takes the form of taking action first and dealing with legal consequences later, whether that is new regulations to contain Uber and Lyft or judicial rulings reigning ...
September 3, 2024 | Copyrights, Intellectual Property
When it comes to hot button issues at the intersection of technology and intellectual property, Artificial Intelligence has taken the cake in the past few years. This blog has already featured several news stories about lawsuits against OpenAI ...
August 20, 2024 | Copyrights, Intellectual Property
When you go out with friends to a karaoke bar, probably one of the last questions on your mind is: “Did the bar license this music?” Yet, bars and venues that stream music must pay fees in order to respect musicians’ copyrights and stay in the ...
August 19, 2024 | Immigration, Videos
Welcome to 'Q&A with Giselle,' your go-to source for navigating the intricate landscape of U.S. corporate immigration.
In this episode, she answers the following:
✅ Can my employee on a work visa volunteer for a job that is usually ...
August 8, 2024 | Immigration
Since April 2024, we've been facing ongoing, frustrating, and inefficient delays in receipt issuance and filing fee processing by USCIS. What once took about a week is now stretching to 2-4 weeks or more.
These delays are creating ...
July 31, 2024 | Copyrights, Intellectual Property
The internet has opened a broad field of intellectual property questions since its inception in the 1990s as varied as each new function introduced by an app or website. The increasing availability of media online has made infringement as easy ...
June 18, 2024 | Intellectual Property, Trademark
If your business’s trademark is used by a competitor in an invisible way, does that count as commercial use that could constitute trademark infringement? You might assume the answer is “No,” since there would likely not exist evidence of ...
June 12, 2024 | Immigration, Immigration News
Hello HR heroes, legal leaders, and hiring maestros!
In this newsletter, I share updates about:
✅Will USCIS speed things up with higher fees, new forms and new filing locations?
✅Successful H-1B Petitions Outcomes Despite New USCIS ...
June 4, 2024 | Immigration, Immigration News
Despite the complexities introduced by the new USCIS fee structure and other changes, we are thrilled and grateful to share some outstanding news from our FY25 H-1B cap petition filings.
Thanks to the proactive engagement and trust of our ...
June 4, 2024 | Immigration, Immigration News
On April 1, 2024, USCIS rolled out significant increases to its fee schedule and changed the employment-based immigration forms and filing requirements.
The new tiered fee structure is being challenged in court because of its lack of ...