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DPS Legal Counsel protects the business, regulatory, contract, transactional, intellectual property, compliance, and tax interests of health practices and small businesses from initial formation through founder retirement and practice/business succession
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Today’s Tennessee Trademark Update
During the period from August 21 through 23, there were 21 trademark applications filed in the USPTO by Tennessee businesses. Here's the breakdown of where those Tennessee businesses are located: Nashville 6 Memphis 6 Brentwood 3 Chattanooga 2 Millington 1 Mount...
Two Key Points to Negotiate in a Physician Employment Agreement
How Many Years of Nonfiled Tax Returns Need to be Filed?
Hi, this is Dan Smith of DPS Legal Counsel. Welcome to today's podcast on The Tax Counsel Podcast where I discuss issues involving taxes and how they impact the operation of small businesses and self-employed individuals. Today, I want to talk about non-filed tax...
Today’s Tennessee Trademark Update
On August 19, there were a total of 19 trademark applications filed in the USPTO by Tennessee applicants. Here's the breakdown by where those applicants are: Nashville is again the winner as the place of business for most applicants with a total of 4 trademark...
The DuPont Factors and the “Confusingly Similar” Analysis of Trademarks
Hi, this is Dan Smith of DPS Legal Counsel, and welcome to today's podcast episode of 21st Century Oil, where I talk about intellectual property and how it relates to entrepreneurship in the 21st century. Okay. Today I want to talk about what is commonly known as the...
Today’s Tennessee Trademark Update
On August 19, there were 24 trademark filings with the USPTO for new trademarks by Tennessee businesses. Here's how those trademark filings are split among some of the towns and cities in Tennessee: Nashville - 11 new trademark filings Memphis - 4 new trademark...
Acronyms, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, and Disclaimer of Merely Descriptive Terms
Today’s Tennessee Trademark Update
Ok, so today is Monday, August 23, 2021. The most day that shows trademark filings on the TESS database maintained by the USPTO is last Wednesday, August 18. There have surely been filings since then, so the delay in a filing making its way to the online TESS database...