Curtis Smolar

Curtis Smolar is a partner at Ropers Majeski Kohn & Bentley, a full service law firm with offices in the San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, New York and Boston. He represents entrepreneurs and start-ups in the daily running of their companies in the areas of employment, intellectual property, real estate, and business transactions and litigation. His clients have ranged from an entrepreneur with an idea to Fortune 500 companies.

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Can Google+ replace your company’s intranet?

(Editor’s note: Curtis Smolar is a partner at Ropers Majeski Kohn & Bentley. He submitted this column to VentureBeat.)

A reader asks:  With all of the buzz surrounding Google +, I’ve been contemplating using it to replace my company’s …

How legal is content scraping?

(Editor’s note: Curtis Smolar is a partner at Ropers Majeski Kohn & Bentley. He submitted this column to VentureBeat.)

A reader asks: I have a business in which we scrape content from other websites to our website.  Do we …

Not every contract is set in stone

(Editor’s note: Curtis Smolar is a partner at Ropers Majeski Kohn & Bentley. He submitted this column to VentureBeat.)

A reader asks: I have a contract with a company coding my website. During work, emails flew back and forth. She …

Safeguarding your company from poachers

(Editor’s note: Curtis Smolar is a partner at Ropers Majeski Kohn & Bentley. He submitted this column to VentureBeat.)

A reader asks: My business is in an industry where sales people and software engineers are often recruited by competitors.  …

How private is employee email?

(Editor’s note: Curtis Smolar is a partner at Ropers Majeski Kohn & Bentley. He submitted this column to VentureBeat.)

Suppose that an employee is talking about your company on a social networking W eb site like Facebook or LinkedIn while …

There’s no such thing as a free sample

(Editor’s note: Curtis Smolar is a partner at Ropers Majeski Kohn & Bentley. He submitted this column to VentureBeat.)

Just because something is commonplace doesn’t always mean it’s legal. That’s especially true in the murky rights world of YouTube.

It’s …

3 things to do if your domain is hijacked

(Editor’s note: Curtis Smolar is a partner at Ropers Majeski Kohn & Bentley. He submitted this column to VentureBeat.)

Your company’s brand is its identity. And, generally, having a Web presence is critical.

It’s also valuable – and cybersquatters know …

5 pitfalls of online advertising

(Editor’s note: Curtis Smolar is a partner at Ropers Majeski Kohn & Bentley. He submitted this column to VentureBeat.)

Online advertising and marketing are effective ways of getting people interested in your company and/or products.  However, some online marketing strategies …