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The Importance of Trademarking

Up and Running

A primarily geographically deceptively misdescriptive mark is one where the goods or services do not originate in the place identified in the mark—for example, a clothing line called “London” that makes clothes in North Carolina.

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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

Bouncing around the country, went to school at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He was our IP attorney. Like a lot of kids who grew up here, you begin to think the best and most exciting version of your future exists somewhere else. Did law school in Southern California and had no intention of coming back.

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