Choosing Your Business Entity/What Your Business Needs to Know about Intellectual Property
This session will review the various available North Carolina legal entities from which small businesses may choose, the legal process for creating each one, and the ongoing legal compliance responsibilities where applicable. It will include an overview of the tax consequences, the relative flexibility and formality, and the protection of personal assets features of each choice, and will address the importance of complying with the legal formalities inherent in some of these choices. Also this class will present an overview of the three legal avenues that are available at the Federal level for protecting your intellectual property: 1) copyrights; 2) patents; 3) trademarks. This class will assist you in recognizing which legal avenue will be best to help protect your business’s intellectual property. Cost: FREE
Speaker(s): Tracy Stroud and Jack Brock
Fee: No Cost