King Patent Law, PLLC

King Patent Law, PLLC Protecting your ideas, business, and legacy. National patent / intellectual property practice; business & estate planning in IL.

Patents, trademarks, copyright, NDAs, licensing, business formation & contracts, wills, trusts, powers of attorney

07/16/2026

Your customer buying habits. Your pricing structure. Your process. You're probably sitting on IP that could destroy your business if it went public. So what do you do about that?

Avoid the legal horrors and keep rocking your IP. 💀🎸

DISCLAIMER: This information is for educational purposes only, is not legal advice, and does not form an attorney-client relationship. For advice about your specific situation, consult with a licensed attorney. This video contains attorney advertising material. Julie King | King Patent Law, PLLC | 301 N Neil St Ste 400, Champaign IL 61820. Phone number and email address available at kingpatentlaw.com.

07/15/2026

Patents expire. Trade secrets don't have to. Coca-Cola bet on secrecy 130+ years ago and it's still paying off. 🥤

DISCLAIMER: This information is for educational purposes only, is not legal advice, and does not form an attorney-client relationship. For advice about your specific situation, consult with a licensed attorney. This video contains attorney advertising material. Julie King | King Patent Law, PLLC | 301 N Neil St Ste 400, Champaign IL 61820. Phone number and email address available at kingpatentlaw.com.

07/14/2026

Signing one NDA back in 2019 and calling it done? That's not how trade secret protection actually works.

Courts want to see ongoing reasonable efforts to keep information secret, not a form you filed once and forgot about. If a competitor got their hands on your customer list or pricing tomorrow, could you actually prove in court that you tried to stop it?

Full breakdown in the Avoid the Legal Horrors podcast on your favorite podcast network and on my website kingpatentlaw.com

07/09/2026

"Can you actually patent the way something looks?"

Yes. That's exactly what a design patent does.

Most people only know about utility patents: the kind that protect how something works. Design patents protect the ornamental appearance of a product or its packaging. Distinctive shape. Unique label layout. A visual identity worth protecting.

If you didn't know this was a thing, now you do.

Avoid the legal horrors and keep rocking your IP. 💀🎸

📅 Ready to protect your brand and business? Book a consultation: https://kingpatentlaw.com/appointments/consultation/
I help creators and small business owners with IP matters nationwide and with contracts in Illinois and Georgia.

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DISCLAIMER: This information is for educational purposes only, is not legal advice, and does not form an attorney-client relationship. For advice about your specific situation, consult with a licensed attorney. This video contains attorney advertising material. Julie King | King Patent Law, PLLC | 301 N Neil St Ste 400, Champaign IL 61820. Phone number and email address available at kingpatentlaw.com.

07/08/2026

"I can't afford a patent."

I hear this a lot. And if you're thinking about a utility patent (the kind that protects how something works), the sticker shock is real.

But there's another kind. A design patent protects how your product looks. It's significantly faster and less expensive than a utility patent.

If you've been telling yourself patents aren't in your budget, you might be thinking of the wrong kind.

Avoid the legal horrors and keep rocking your IP. 💀🎸

📅 Ready to protect your brand and business? Book a consultation: https://kingpatentlaw.com/appointments/consultation/
I help creators and small business owners with IP matters nationwide and with contracts in Illinois and Georgia.

📰 Sign up for the Avoid the Legal Horrors newsletter at kingpatentlaw.com

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DISCLAIMER: This information is for educational purposes only, is not legal advice, and does not form an attorney-client relationship. For advice about your specific situation, consult with a licensed attorney. This video contains attorney advertising material. Julie King | King Patent Law, PLLC | 301 N Neil St Ste 400, Champaign IL 61820. Phone number and email address available at kingpatentlaw.com.

07/07/2026

Your packaging. Your look. A copycat's listing.

There's a patent designed specifically for this situation. It's called a design patent: it protects how your product looks, not how it works. And once you have one, you show up to Amazon's infringement process with a patent number, not just a complaint.

That changes the conversation.

If you're selling a physical product online and you haven't looked at design patent protection, this one's for you.

Avoid the legal horrors and keep rocking your IP. 💀🎸

📅 Ready to protect your brand and business? Book a consultation: https://kingpatentlaw.com/appointments/consultation/
I help creators and small business owners with IP matters nationwide and with contracts in Illinois and Georgia.

📰 Sign up for the Avoid the Legal Horrors newsletter at kingpatentlaw.com

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DISCLAIMER: This information is for educational purposes only, is not legal advice, and does not form an attorney-client relationship. For advice about your specific situation, consult with a licensed attorney. This video contains attorney advertising material. Julie King | King Patent Law, PLLC | 301 N Neil St Ste 400, Champaign IL 61820. Phone number and email address available at kingpatentlaw.com.

06/11/2026

3 Questions to Find Out If Your Brand Is Really Protected

Three questions. If you can't answer yes to all three, your brand name is exposed.
1. Do you have a federal trademark registration?
2. Does it cover what you actually do online — content, e-commerce, services?
3. Does it exactly match your current handle?
Free checklist "Should I Stay or Should I File?" at kingpatentlaw.com — five minutes, tells you exactly where the gaps are.

Full episode: "Why Your Social Media Handle Isn't a Trademark and How to Fix It" — at kingpatentlaw.com, or at Avoid the Legal Horrors with Julie King: Patent, Trademark, and Business Strategy on YouTube or your favorite podcast platform.

This is not legal advice and I'm not your lawyer. For advice about your specific situation, consult with a licensed attorney. This contains attorney advertising material. Firm address and contact information are available at kingpatentlaw.com.

06/10/2026

She Built Her Brand for 4 Years — Then Lost Her Handle. Here's Why.

Four years of audience building. One letter from an attorney. Handle gone in three weeks.
This is not a hypothetical. This is what happens when you build your brand on a handle instead of a trademark. The handle is a license from the platform. The trademark is the legal right to the name. Only one of those protects you.

Full episode: "Why Your Social Media Handle Isn't a Trademark and How to Fix It" — at kingpatentlaw.com, or at Avoid the Legal Horrors with Julie King: Patent, Trademark, and Business Strategy on YouTube or your favorite podcast platform.

This is not legal advice and I'm not your lawyer. For advice about your specific situation, consult with a licensed attorney. This contains attorney advertising material. Firm address and contact information are available at kingpatentlaw.com.

06/09/2026

Your Handle Isn't a Trademark — What You Need to Know

Your handle is a license from the platform. Your trademark is the legal right to the name. Those are not the same thing—and only one of them protects you when someone files a complaint.

Full episode: "Why Your Social Media Handle Isn't a Trademark and How to Fix It" at kingpatentlaw.com, or at Avoid the Legal Horrors with Julie King: Patent, Trademark, and Business Strategy on YouTube, or your favorite podcast platform.

This is not legal advice and I'm not your lawyer. For advice about your specific situation, consult with a licensed attorney. This contains attorney advertising material. Firm address and contact information are available at kingpatentlaw.com.

06/04/2026

Your executor has legal authority. They still can't get in.
RUFADAA, the law most states have adopted to govern digital account access after death or incapacity, gives your executor, your trustee, and your agent under a power of attorney a legal basis to request access to your accounts.
It does not give them your password. It does not get through two-factor authentication. It does not stop a platform from taking weeks to process a request while your domain expires and your email sequences keep sending.
Legal authority and operational access are not the same thing. Your executor can be perfectly authorized and completely locked out at the same time.
Every practical thing you can do to prepare exists because the law gives rights that are very hard to exercise without preparation.
🎙️Full episode: What Happens to Your Online Business When You Die or Can't Work? at kingpatentlaw.com or at Avoid the Legal Horrors with Julie King: Patent, Trademark, and Business Strategy on YouTube or your favorite podcast platform. Helping entrepreneurs, creators, and small business owners understand and use IP law as a business tool, without the jargon.
Avoid the legal horrors and keep rocking your IP. 💀🎸
📅 Ready to protect your brand and business? Book a consultation: https://kingpatentlaw.com/appointments/consultation/ I help creators and small business owners with IP matters nationwide and with contracts in Illinois and Georgia.
📰 Sign up for the Avoid the Legal Horrors newsletter at kingpatentlaw.com
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DISCLAIMER: This information is for educational purposes only, is not legal advice, and does not form an attorney-client relationship. For advice about your specific situation, consult with a licensed attorney. This video contains attorney advertising material. Julie King | King Patent Law, PLLC | 301 N Neil St Ste 400, Champaign IL 61820. Phone number and email address available at kingpatentlaw.com.

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