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## [Trademark Renewal: The USPTO Deadlines That Cancel a Registration](https://turleylaw.com/blog/trademark-renewal-uspto-deadlines)

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### [**saas** Apr 01, 2026 Can Someone Steal Your Website's Look and Feel? Trade Dress Protection for Digital Products Your website's design may be protectable as trade dress under the Lanham Act. Learn how courts analyze look-and-feel claims for digital products and SaaS UI. Read article](https://turleylaw.com/blog/trade-dress-protection-websites-digital-products)

### [**how-to-guide** Mar 22, 2026 Protecting Your Software: A Founder's Guide to Intellectual Property, Licensing, and Source Code Security Which parts of your software copyright covers, where trade secret protection breaks down, when a patent is worth filing, and the license terms that control ownership. Read article](https://turleylaw.com/blog/how-to-protect-software-intellectual-property)

### [**how-to-guide** Mar 19, 2026 An Employee Stole Your Source Code. Here's Your Legal Playbook. What to do when an employee leaves with your source code: trade secret claims, breach of contract, cybersecurity response, and the protections to have in place. Read article](https://turleylaw.com/blog/employee-left-with-source-code-legal-playbook)

### [**saas** Mar 07, 2026 What a Bolivian Cash Plane Crash Teaches Founders About Fungibility, Licensing, and Digital Trust A cargo plane scattered banknotes across Bolivia and the central bank voided the serial numbers. The chaos that followed is a parable about digital licensing. Read article](https://turleylaw.com/blog/bolivian-cash-crash-fungibility-digital-licensing)

### [**startup-financing** Sep 01, 2025 Securitizing Intellectual Property: New Investment Opportunities in Connecticut How Connecticut businesses and investors can securitize intellectual property, turning patents, trademarks and royalties into tradable securities. Read article](https://turleylaw.com/blog/securitizing-intellectual-property-new-investment-opportunities-in-connecticut)

### [**intellectual-property** Jun 25, 2025 Lessons Learned From Famous IP Cases: Protecting Your Business Famous intellectual property cases and the practical lessons they hold for businesses: how to protect trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets before a dispute. Read article](https://turleylaw.com/blog/lessons-learned-from-famous-ip-cases-protecting-your-business)

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