Author Archives: VickyLAmen

Intellectual Property Essentials for Engineers: Trademarks, Copyrights, and Trade Secrets

  Engineers: I hope to see you on June 16 for this Engineering Law and Ethics continuing education seminar. I’ll be speaking on intellectual property essentials for engineers, focusing on trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. Earn professional development hours Minimize your risk of unintentional intellectual property infringement Maximize value by protecting and monetizing your intellectual […]

Warm and Fuzzy – Over a Lease Review?!

Warm and Fuzzy – Over a Lease Review?!   One this week’s best legal moments: commercial office lease review.   Commercial lease review for a client. A client who is newer to business. A client who has a lot of business decisions to make. A client who is not used to the legal lingo and […]

General Power of Attorney Peace of Mind

3 Take-Aways from a New Court Ruling It takes trust to sign a general power of attorney. You are trusting someone else to make your financial decisions while you are still alive. It might be for convenience and it could be good planning if you become ill and can’t make your own financial decisions. But […]

An Intellectual Property Lunch and Learn

Networking Lunch and Learn   Intellectual Property – Every Organization Has It: How to Identify and Protect Your IP     What:   Business law attorney Vicky Amen of Amen Business Law, L.L.C. will be the guest speaker for the weekly Center Sphere Lincoln business networking group. Complimentary – excluding any food and beverage you may […]

New Business Domain Options

Your business intellectual property strategy could include reserving relevant new domain names. The Trademark Clearinghouse helps businesses protect and plan for their strategy of brand protection and expansion. You can apply to reserve your right to use one of the new internet top level domains (TLDs) through the Trademark Clearinghouse. Opening today, the option to […]

Best Business Approach to Intellectual Property

Learn about one of my favorite business law topics this Wednesday – intellectual property.  I’m looking forward to being a guest speaker on the best business approach to intellectual property at a lunchtime meeting of SCORE business mentors.  SCORE is volunteer business people helping small business people solve business problems. Join us if you want […]

I Like a For Sale By Owner – Now What?

For Sale By Owner: Buyer Options for FSBO Property   A popular neighborhood regularly has a waiting list for its elementary school – and also has many families who drive across town for the benefits of the area middle and high schools. A certain price point of homes in this school district is seeing success […]

Fraud Alert for Physician Compensation Arrangements

Alert for Possible Physician Liability:   Yesterday the Office of Inspector General issued a fraud alert for physician compensation arrangements.  This alert is a reminder that there may be criminal, civil, and administrative sanctions, including physician liability, when physicians are paid other than with the fair market value of their services when federal healthcare programs […]

Development Contracts

Development Contracts Development contracts for a new product or new technology have significant risks and rewards. Minimize risks of the unknown costs and market by having an option to renegotiate terms such as price, time, warranty and indemnification after development is complete.