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The Business of Healthcare | Trademark Registration
DPS Legal Counsel protects the business interests of healthcare professionals and the intellectual property rights of business entrepreneurs
The Business of Healthcare
Advising health professionals on business formation, business contracts, commercial leases, employment issues, professional licensure issues, partnership disputes, sale of practice transactions, tax planning, and healthcare regulatory issues.
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Trademarks & Business Branding
Helping healthcare professionals and business entrepreneurs protect their business brand and their trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets through federal trademark registration, federal copyright registration, and confidentiality agreements.
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What Clients Are Saying
Dan Smith was instrumental in reaching my goal of selling my practice to a successor and retiring. I chose Dan as my attorney because of his experience in healthcare, as well as his knowledge of business transactions. An added benefit of working with Dan was his ability to work as a team with my other consultants. For example, Dan was able to analyze and spot a regulatory issue which may have threatened the deal. He consulted with my other advisors and made the proper recommendations. In fact, my practice management consultant was so impressed with Dan’s thoroughness that he believed that Dan saved the day! I highly recommend Dan for any physician who needs help in the business and regulatory aspects of healthcare.
Recent Blog Posts
2 Things to Remember When Selling Your Practice and Transferring Medical Records
5 Things that Tennessee Doctors Need to Know about Covenants Not to Compete
How can a medical practice tweak its employment contracts with its physicians to make sure they fulfill their post-employment obligations?
Group medical practices should take care to make sure that their employment agreements with their employed physicians take into account how to enforce post-contract obligations. For example, once an...
What is an intent to use trademark application and can it benefit your branding strategy?
What is a no-reliance or “big boy” clause, do you want one in your contract, and is it enforceable in Tennessee?
Can a multi-specialty medical practice provide bonus compensation to its employed physicians based on a percentage of the net profits received from the practice’s ambulatory surgery center attributable to the services provided by the physicians?
What the recent Purple Rain case from the USPTO’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board can teach business entrepreneurs about trademarks
What Tennessee physicians need to know about restrictive covenants not to compete
What happens to an LLC when one of the members dies?
Why Every Medical Practice Should Have Written Employment Agreements with Their Office Staff
Hi, this is Dan Smith of DPS Legal Counsel. Welcome to today's podcast of Legal Scrubs. Today's question that I want to address is why every single independent medical practice, whether it's a big one or a small one, why every single medical practice should have...
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