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Protecting Your Brand from Counterfeiters

mofomon — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:02:11 +0000

There was a good article in the July/August 2010 issue of Landslide which discusses protecting your brand from counterfeiters. The article, titled “Fighting Back: A 10-point Plan to Protect Your Brand from Counterfeiters,” outlines 10 points useful for those concerned with brand protection. In sum the 10 points are:

Register Your Trademarks
Record your registered trademarks with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Monitor and Investigate trademark offices, the marketplace, affiliates and supply chains, and domain names
Take legal action when counterfeiters are caught
Seek formal recognition as a well-known mark in the countries which allow obtaining such a status
Work with local authorities, such as in foreign territories
Utilize the press using press releases and notices
Make it difficult to copy your products and packaging
Keep written anti-counterfeiting policies and guidelines which are to be distributed to employees and affiliates
Be active by networking through global or national organizations

For anyone interested in this area, the article is a great read. A copy of it can be found here.

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“Anonymous” online posts can still get you in trouble

mofomon — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:36:25 +0000

Check out this article about how bloggers and other online posters may be liable for the things they post “anonymously”

Blogger Beware: You Can Be Sued Over ‘Anonymous’ Posts – via ABAJournal

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Better Copy (or Cut) Paste functionality in Microsoft Word

mofomon — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 21:26:43 +0000

As much as I told myself growing up that I did not ever want a job that involved a lot of writing (part of the reason I became an engineer) pretty much all I do now is write. Every.single.day. Tons of writing. Part of this is always me copying parts of documents into a new document. For those of you who also find yourselves doing this (organizing my law school notes into outlines involved a lot of this) I’m sure you’ve recognized that the ctrl+c (copy) followed by ctrl+v (paste) over and over leaves you desiring more. “Wouldn’t it be easier if I just could copy everything I needed and paste it once?” Seriously, wouldn’t it?

You totally can. I feel a little lame for not looking into it earlier, but the feature is built into word. It is called copying to the “spike.” This is how it is done:

Selecting some text
Use Ctrl+F3 to copy/cut it to the “Spike”
Repeat for the other text you want to copy/cut
Paste the combined set of copied text with the Ctrl+Shift+F3 shortcut key combination (or type “spike” and press F3).

Here is some more info on the spike.

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Expendables

mofomon — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 01:00:48 +0000

Saw the Expendables last night, not a terrific movie, but it was entertaining… lots of explosions and fake blood. Not bad if you’re looking for an action movie. B-

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LA not lala land

mofomon — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:08:51 +0000

The city of Los Angeles, LA for short. I don’t know how the trend of calling LA “lala land” originated, but I hate it. This isn’t lala land, call it LA.

That is all.

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Nights

mofomon — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 07:11:31 +0000

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Speeding up new PC setup

mofomon — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 06:11:52 +0000

I set up a lot of new PC’s and this is a site that helps speed up that process. Ninite has a large list of commonly used applications that you can select to all be installed at once. Saves you the time of going to each site for each application and downloading…

Check it out: Ninite

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While you sit there and think about your past…

mofomon — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 05:13:12 +0000

You should know:

“All pasts are like poems; one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them”
-John Fowles

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A night off.

mofomon — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 08:54:28 +0000

Took a night off tonight, just to veg out and sit around. I have to say, it was awesome.

It isn’t that I want to sit at home, alone, every night… I just want to do it on occasion. Have some time to myself. To sit and be.

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I’m tired of

mofomon — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 06:00:52 +0000

I’m tired of being tired. I’m too tired to add to this… fill in the thoughts. Extra hours of the day wanted for sleeping. kthxbye

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A little more time… please.

mofomon — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 06:22:54 +0000

I love music. Sitting around and listening to music late at night has to be one of my favorite things to do. Easily.

When I was in high school and in college, I had plenty of extra time to listen to tons of music, find what i liked, find other music like what i liked and just really put together a good collection of things I wanted to and enjoyed listening to. Now, not only do I not have the time to sit around and listen to the music that I enjoy, but even when I find that time, I don’t have the music I want to listen to… because I haven’t had the time to find the new things that I enjoy hearing.

Sure the old music I have is great and wonderful, but I tend to feel that the music we like or identify with grows with who we are. I’ll listen to the old stuff and really enjoy it, but I find myself not connecting with it the way I did when I found it, when I identified with it, I guess. I need some time… to let my music collection grow and catch up to where I am now.

Can I get a little more time… Please?

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What to read next?

mofomon — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 01:32:20 +0000

I never know what books to read. I usually stand around in bookstores (and airport stores) and read the back covers and first pages until I find something I like… It hasn’t really been an efficient system and friend recommendations have been hit or miss. This morning I heard about a site called “Your Next Read.” Supposedly, I can put in books I like and find a recommended best read based on those.

I have a few vacations coming up this summer where I’ll have time to read. I’ll let you guys know how it works out for me.

Check it out: Your Next Read

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Leap Year

mofomon — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:35:22 +0000

Watched Leap Year last night. B+

It was cute and funny… but I felt like the attraction between the couple that wins out should have been developed more.

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