The 4 Types of Intellectual Property
In the ever-changing landscape of business, a clear understanding of Intellectual Property (IP) is essential, particularly for those just stepping into the world of entrepreneurship
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At Morin Legal, we believe in monetizing your creativity, which is why every creative enterprise begins with the Business Basics: establishing, capitalizing, and managing an entity, retaining talent, protecting ideas, creations, and brands, collaborating, and setting objectives to meet goals. We offer clients a full spectrum of business and legal advisory services that incorporate these essential elements to enable you to do what you do best while resting assured that your business’s legal needs are met.
We support your small business with the legal skills and know-how to allow you to focus on what’s next for your company.
We guide clients through a multitude of factors, including ease of administration, liability protection, tax implications, management and control when choosing an entity. We have experience in setting up Georgia and non-Georgia companies in the following:
We draft customized company documentation that incorporates unique aspects of each business, for owners, managers and their visions. Our goal is to hand you a blueprint for your business that will facilitate its operations whatever happens.
We develop custom contracts that reflect the relationships between our clients and their most valuable asset – their employees. We build agreements that honor employees while protecting intellectual property and have experience with the following:
We have experience in trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. Coupled with a background in patents and working relationships with a global network of IP attorneys, we identify your ideas, creations, and brands and help you to fiercely protect them.
We understand that our clients are successful because they know how to collaborate effectively to achieve commercial success. We have experience with drafting and negotiating agreements in the following areas:
We help clients to set realistic objectives that meet their goals, whether it is to expand, sell, or transition into something new. We counsel clients how to raise capital, buy and sell stock or assets, and execute growth or exit strategies.
Attorney Morin started in the Georgia business community as the assistant for government relations and public relations at a statewide nonprofit corporation. She then accepted her first privately held, corporate gig in the law department of a multinational corporation in 2002, navigating to private practice in 2007 before entering law school in 2009. After freelancing for 14 months, in March 2013, Attorney Morin started her firm Morin Legal in the Atlanta metropolitan community, and in 2017 established her brick-and-mortar firm on the east side Atlanta BeltLine trail in the historic Old Fourth Ward.
Attorney Morin supports community outreach and continuing workforce education by speaking and writing on matters important to business professionals. In 2016, she partnered with ASIFA-South, Inc., to produce Business Basics for Creatives to educate small business owners about starting and maintaining a small business, identifying and managing its intellectual properties, managing employees, assembling contracts and working with others, and basic financing and exit strategies. Attorney Morin returned to teach non-lawyers again this time as an adjunct professor for Georgia State University College of Law, where she was instrumental in developing and instructed its executive education workshops for the Entertainment, Sports, & Media Law Initiative.
In the ever-changing landscape of business, a clear understanding of Intellectual Property (IP) is essential, particularly for those just stepping into the world of entrepreneurship
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