TL;DR: Filing your trademark application is the start of the job, not the end of it. After you file, three things can still go wrong: the examiner can raise an objection, a third party can oppose your mark, and years later someone can apply to remove it for non-use. The single best protection against all […]
Author Archives: Prakhar Rai
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Trademark Opposition in Argentina: What to Do If Someone Objects TL;DR: Opposition is a mechanism for raising a conflict with an trademark during the application process in Argentina. INPI no longer examines applications for conflicts with similar earlier marks, and the informal “observations” route was abolished for applications filed from March 2026. A third party […]
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TL;DR: The cost of registering a trademark in Argentina has two parts: INPI’s official fees, charged per class, and professional fees for the search, filing, and any opposition. Since Resolution 75/2026, INPI’s official fees are calculated in a new tariff unit called the UMAPI, whose peso value is adjusted every month for inflation. This means […]
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TL;DR: Trademarks in Argentina are registered with INPI (Instituto Nacional de la Propiedad Industrial) under Trademark Law No. 22,362, in a first-to-file system where registration, not use, creates the right. The process runs from clearance search through filing, examination, a one-day publication, and a 30-day opposition window, to registration for a renewable ten-year term. The […]
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TL;DR: A Statement of Work (SOW) is the document that defines the specific work to be done, the deliverables, timeline, and price, for a particular project or engagement. It usually sits underneath a Master Service Agreement (MSA), which sets the overarching legal terms that apply across every project. The MSA handles the “how we work […]
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TL;DR: A contract lawyer’s cost depends far more on how they bill and how complex your contract is than on the document’s title. Hourly rates for business and contract lawyers commonly run from around $150 to $500+ an hour in major markets, but the more predictable route is fixed-fee pricing, where a straightforward contract can […]
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TL;DR: A cap table shows who owns your company today. A fully diluted cap table shows who could own it tomorrow, once every option, warrant, SAFE, and convertible note that can turn into shares actually does. Most founders track the first and are blindsided by the second. Understanding fully diluted ownership, and the “shadow cap […]
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TL;DR: AI vendor contracts are not just software contracts with a new label. They quietly take rights that ordinary SaaS agreements do not: the right to train the vendor’s model on your data, ownership or control of the outputs you generate, and broad protection for the vendor when the AI gets something wrong. The two […]
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TL;DR: Hiring an international contractor exposes your business to four main legal risks: not owning the IP they create, misclassifying them as a contractor when the law treats them as an employee, relying on a weak or missing written contract, and, the one most people get wrong, choosing the wrong governing law. Our firm’s view […]
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TL;DR: What happens to equity when a co-founder leaves depends almost entirely on one thing: whether vesting and leaver provisions are in place. Vested shares are generally the departing founder’s to keep. Unvested shares can usually be reclaimed by the company. If there is no agreement at all, the founder typically keeps their full stake, […]