Speaker: Lauren Burgon, Law Office of Lauren Burgon PLLC
Topic: Trademarks and Copyright for Business Owners
Trademark and copyright law can be complicated, and the cost of not using them to protect your business assets can be high. Similarly, it’s expensive to violate another’s trademark or copyright.
This presentation will go over the basics of trademark and copyright law and how using trademark and copyright can protect your business assets. You’ll also learn how to avoid inadvertently violating another’s trademark or copyright, which is surprisingly easy to do.
Key takeaways:
- What can and can’t be protected with a trademark?
- What can and can’t be protected with copyright?
- Should you register your copyright? Why and why not.
- How to avoid violating another’s copyright or trademark.
About Our Speaker:
Lauren has been practicing business law since 2008, and has had her own solo practice in West Seattle since 2016. Her practice focuses on business law and the needs of small business owners, assisting them with setting up new businesses, buying and selling businesses, hiring/firing & compliance with current employment laws, client services agreements, independent contractor agreements, commercial leases, trademarks & copyrights, and informal dispute resolution. Her clients are mostly solopreneurs, and she offers a free 15-20 minute telephone or Zoom consultation for all potential clients.
Lauren has been a WBO member since 2016. She served on the WBO Board of Directors from 2017 until 2022, and returned to the Board in 2025. Lauren is also a past Board member of the West Seattle Chamber of Commerce, of which she has been an active member since 2016.
Lauren is originally from Massachusetts and graduated from Middlebury College in Vermont. She drove to Seattle from Cape Cod at the age of 21 to attend law school, graduated from the University of Washington School of Law in 1991, and has lived in the wonderful small-town-within-a-city that is West Seattle since 1994. She has two fabulous grown kids who relocated to Maryland earlier this month, and she hasn’t quite figured out what to do with herself as a first-time empty nester. Lauren lives with her senior pit bull Emmett and her ancient tuxedo cat Toby.
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