File your trademark application with TEAS.

This is part three in an ongoing series about why and how to register your trademarks. Erik J. Heels is both the founder of domain name, trademark, and patent law firm Clock Tower Law Group and the owner of many trademarks and domain names.

1. Where To Start

To file a US trademark application, go to the… [click here to read more]

Search trademarks to rule out likelihood of confusion.

This is part two in an ongoing series about why and how to register your trademarks. Erik J. Heels is both the founder of domain name, trademark, and patent law firm Clock Tower Law Group and the owner of many trademarks and domain names.

Trademark Searches Never End

Trademark searching is like scuba diving. You are… [click here to read more]

A trademark is to your business as a foundation is to your house.

This is part one in an ongoing series about why and how to register your trademarks. Erik J. Heels is both the founder of domain name, trademark, and patent law firm Clock Tower Law Group and the owner of many trademarks and domain names.

The Problem: Unregistered Trademarks

In the summer of… [click here to read more]

Email addresses for Erik J. Heels.

I've had many email addresses through the years. I'm listing them all here (in plain text) because:

• I think the list is interesting, and
• it doesn't matter if spammers get them, because:
  • email has ceased to become a reliable form of communication, and
  • spammers will get your email addrress whether you "cleverly" hide your email address (do

Goodbye paper storage, hello electronic storage.

        

I loved the 1990s. I got engaged, got married, had three kids, wrote a best-selling book, graduated from law school, made money due to the (fun but) irrational exuberance of the stock market, and learned a lot… [click here to read more]

The more you hide your content, the less relevant it becomes.

Lawyer to sell his heels - but not his soul - to pay for kids' college.

ACTON, MA, April 1, 2007 (InternetsWire) -- Attorney Erik J. Heels, known in the legal/Internet community for creating, in the early 1990s, The Legal List, the first Internet reference book for lawyers and the first book published simultaneously on the Internet and in print, today announced his intention to sell his "heels.com" domain name to… [click here to read more]

Technology, Law, Baseball, and Rock 'n' Roll.

* Introduction Stuff

This newsletter is Erik's opinion, not the opinion of Clock Tower Law Group. Thickly settled .

I admit it. I love my job. I love working with smart clients and their cool products and services. I love using patent and trademark law to help them grow their businesses. I love testing and leveraging the latest technologies… [click here to read more]

We can take it as well as we can dish it out.

On 01/01/07, the RedStreet website was relaunched. RedStreet reviewed law firm websites from 1997-2001 when many law firms were testing the web waters for the first time. For our 1999 law firm website reviews, we also reviewed RedStreet's own website:

"We can take it as well as we can dish it out… [click here to read more]

Historic website documents the finest of the first law firm websites.

Maynard, MA, January 1, 2007 - Clock Tower Law Group today announces that the historic RedStreet website (www.redstreet.com) has been relaunched.

Ten years ago, Rick Klau and Erik Heels started RedStreet Consulting (later RedStreet Inc.) as an Internet consultancy to the legal profession. They ran it as a part-time hobby/second job until they dissolved… [click here to read more]