Your business clients know it, instinctively if not empirically - there are many good reasons to use photos in their ads and catalogs and on their web pages - photos capture attention better than bold headlines, they add visual interest, and, as they say, a picture is...
Year: 2018
Title Rights and Libel Laws
Dee Chips, owner and manager at Transpersonal Publishing LLC, gets help from Steve Gillen of Wood, Herron & Evans LLP, a frequent contributor to IBPA Independent magazine. Q: What are the guidelines for legally releasing a title's rights back to one of the...
What You Need to Know About Endorsements
Endorsements are good for business. We know this intuitively. And a 2012 article in the Journal of Advertising Research confirms it empirically, reporting that in a study of more than 300 endorsement deals over nearly two decades, endorsements resulted in an average 4...
12 Wood Herron & Evans Attorneys Listed in The Best Lawyers in America© 2019
Wood Herron & Evans is honored to announce that 12 of the firm's attorneys have been recognized in the 2019 edition of The Best Lawyers in America©. Best Lawyers®, the oldest peer review publication in the legal profession, is universally regarded as the...
Considering Canada for Your Branded Products? . . . . Here’s Something You Need to Know.
Even if you don't (yet) distribute your products in Canada, there are two recent developments in Canadian trademark law that may be worth noting. First, in 2019, Canada will be moving from the a first-to-use trademark system (as we have in the US) to a...
Lori Krafte Honored for Expertise
Lori Krafte, an Anderson Township resident and partner at , was recognized as a leading practitioner of intellectual property (IP) law in Managing Intellectual Property IP STARS directory. The IP STARS are private practice IP professionals...
Wood Herron & Evans Attorneys Win National Accolades
attorneys Stephen Gillen of Columbia Tusculum, Kenneth Germain of Symmes Township, Lori Krafte of Anderson Township, Greg Lunn of Fort Mitchell and Kathryn Smith of Park Hills recently received national recognition for their work in IP law...
When trade secrets are stolen
If you own a business, you may have encountered a variety of legal issues over the years. Whether your company is relatively small or massive, there are many hurdles that business owners can find themselves working through. However, those related to copyrights,...
Handling an Intellectual Property Dispute
Intellectual property disputes now reach many more industries than they did in the past. No longer do intellectual property lawsuits only involve large corporations in medical and financial sectors. Any company may find itself embroiled in an intellectual property...
What Do I Need to Know About Filing a Patent?
If you're considering filing a patent in Cincinnati and aren't sure how to proceed, having an understanding of the process is highly important. Patents protect the creators of inventions from having their ideas stolen and used by others, which can result in great...