King Patent Law, PLLC

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

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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.
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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.

06/03/2026

If your podcast hosting lapses, your show disappears from every platform at once.
Most podcasters don't think about this: your show doesn't live in one place. It lives in your hosting account, which generates an RSS feed, which is what Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, and everywhere else actually pulls from.
If your hosting account lapses, because a credit card expired, because no one was paying the bill, because the account went inactive while you were in the hospital, the RSS feed breaks. Then all hell breaks loose for the show you worked hard to build.
🎙️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.

06/03/2026

TikTok has no plan for when you die. Does your estate?
TikTok doesn't have a legacy contact system. Your account goes into limbo unless someone has your credentials, and then they're navigating federal computer access law trying to use them.
Instagram's legacy contact can't post for you, manage your ads, or respond to DMs. YouTube is actually one of the better platforms. LinkedIn memorializes. Twitter/X deactivates.
Most platforms treat your account as personal and non-transferable and then act surprised when someone dies.
🎙️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.

06/02/2026

You're in the hospital. Who's running your online business?
You're in a car accident. You're going to be okay. But you're there for three weeks. Who is responding to your Shopify customers? Who is keeping your domain from expiring? Who even has access to any of this?
This is statistically more likely than death for most people under 60, and most online business owners have zero plan for it.
🎙️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.

05/21/2026

7 LLC Operating Agreement Mistakes 💀
Most business partnership disasters were preventable. These are the 7 operating agreement mistakes I see most often, and every one of them is avoidable.
1. Template without customizing
2. No agreement at all
3. Outdated agreement
4. Vague, ambiguous language
5. No "what if it goes wrong" plan
6. Not properly signed and dated
7. Ignoring IP ownership
🎙️Full episode: Operating Agreements: The LLC Document That Saves Businesses and Friendships 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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05/20/2026

Single-Member LLC? You Still Need This Document 📋
Think you don't need an operating agreement because you're the only owner? Here are 3 reasons that's wrong, including one most people never think about until it's too late.
🎙️Full episode: Operating Agreements: The LLC Document That Saves Businesses and Friendships 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
on social media (NOT X)
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.

05/19/2026

What Is an LLC Operating Agreement?

Your LLC has default rules, and they were NOT written for your business.
In this clip, I explain what an operating agreement actually is, why LLC flexibility is a double-edged sword, and what the state assigns when you don't have one.
🎙️Full episode: Operating Agreements: The LLC Document That Saves Businesses and Friendships 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
on social media (NOT X)
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.

05/08/2026

Quick question: if you post a sponsored brand deal and the FTC says the disclosure wasn't "clear and conspicuous," who gets in trouble? 🕷
The answer: potentially both you and the brand.
In 2016, the FTC went after Lord & Taylor for paying fashion influencers to post without disclosing the paid relationship. Same year, Warner Bros. settled over undisclosed paid influencer posts promoting a video game.
Your contract should say explicitly: who drafts the disclosure language, and who's responsible for confirming it meets FTC requirements. If yours doesn't say, that's a problem worth fixing before you hit post.
Full episode on YouTube and all podcast platforms. Free checklist at kingpatentlaw.com/shop
Avoid the legal horrors and keep rocking your IP. 🎸🕷
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🎥 Full episode: Spellbinding IP on YouTube and all podcast platforms
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Not legal advice. Educational purposes only.

05/07/2026

There's a clause appearing in standard brand deal contracts right now that most creators don't know to look for. 🕷
It's the one that lets a brand create an AI-generated version of your voice, your face, or your content style — without you in the room, without your additional consent, and without paying you again.
The technology to do this exists right now. It's why Taylor Swift just filed trademark applications on her own voice. It's why SAG-AFTRA went on strike in 2023.
And it's why you need to read your brand deal contracts before you sign them.
Full episode on YouTube and all podcast platforms. Free checklist at the link in bio.
Avoid the legal horrors and keep rocking your IP. 🎸🕷
📄 Read the full blog post: kingpatentlaw.com/blog
🎥 Full episode: Spellbinding IP on YouTube and all podcast platforms
📱 on social media (NOT X)
🗓 Book a consultation: kingpatentlaw.com
Not legal advice. Educational purposes only.
Hashtags:There's a clause appearing in standard brand deal contracts right now that most creators don't know to look for. 🕷
It's the one that lets a brand create an AI-generated version of your voice, your face, or your content style — without you in the room, without your additional consent, and without paying you again.
The technology to do this exists right now. It's why Taylor Swift just filed trademark applications on her own voice. It's why SAG-AFTRA went on strike in 2023.
And it's why you need to read your brand deal contracts before you sign them.
Full episode on YouTube and all podcast platforms. Free checklist at the link in bio.
Avoid the legal horrors and keep rocking your IP. 🎸🕷
📄 Read the full blog post: kingpatentlaw.com/blog
🎥 Full episode: Spellbinding IP on YouTube and all podcast platforms
📱 on social media (NOT X)
🗓 Book a consultation: kingpatentlaw.com
Not legal advice. Educational purposes only.

05/07/2026

Taylor Swift just filed to trademark the phrase "Hey, it's Taylor Swift" in her own voice. 🕷
Here's what that actually means: her attorneys are testing a legal theory that trademark protection gives her an additional tool, beyond right-of-publicity laws, to go after AI-generated deepfakes of her voice and likeness. Trademark infringement claims can be brought in federal court, which potentially gives her a basis to demand takedowns from AI platforms the way copyright holders do.
It's a creative strategy. It's untested in court. And it's what the most IP-protected celebrity in music felt she needed to do in response to AI.
Most creators can't file trademark applications on their voice phrases. But every creator can read their brand deal contracts before signing and look for the clause that gives a brand permission to create AI-generated versions of you.
That clause is in some standard brand deal templates right now.
Free checklist at the link in bio. Full episode on YouTube and all podcast platforms.
Avoid the legal horrors and keep rocking your IP. 🎸🕷
📄 Read the full blog post: kingpatentlaw.com/blog
🎥 Full episode: Spellbinding IP on YouTube and all podcast platforms
📱 on social media (NOT X)
🗓 Book a consultation: kingpatentlaw.com
Not legal advice. Educational purposes only.

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