Colorado's Small Business Law Firm, the Pote Law Firm providing legal assistance with business formation, ownership agreements, I.P. registration, and privacy policies.


Building Business Potential

legal services for startups, entrepreneurs, and small businesses


Building Business Potential

Building Business Potential

legal services for startups, entrepreneurs, and small businesses


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600 17th Street
Suite 2800 South
Denver, Colorado 80202

 303-226-5656 (P)
  303-271-1577 (F)

A Small Firm for Small Businesses

As a small firm, PLF understands the unique challenges that small business owners face. As a result, PLF's legal services are specifically tailored toward startups and other small businesses in order to provide the solutions that they need.

Assisting New and Established Small Businesses

Whether you are a new or established small business, PLF is here to help you realize your business goals - from formation and drafting or revising ownership agreements, to protecting intellectual property or implementing data security and privacy policies.

Let PLF help you Reach your Full Potential.

Providing legal advice and counsel for modern entrepreneurs and small business owners in Denver and throughout Colorado, PLF is a part of the Modern Law Practice Initative, accepting alternative fee arrangements and working with clients to provide solutions that stay within their budgets.


Practice Areas

Pote Law Firm assists clients in the following areas:


BUSINESS FORMATION

It is important for any startup or business owner to choose the right business structure. The right structure can protect ownership from personal liability on business obligations, facilitate the raising capital, produce significant tax benefits, and achieve the correct working arrangement between ownership and management. PLF helps new and restructuring businesses determine the entity best suited for that particular business and properly file the appropriate documents with the state. Whether you want to form some kind of partnership, a limited liability company (LLC), or a for-profit corporation, PLF may be able to help.

TRADEMARKS & COPYRIGHTS

Trademarks are a uniquely commercial kind of intellectual property that have the potential to become important financial assets. Copyrights protect original creative works by giving their owners exclusive rights over the use of their works. Many businesses have creative works or marks used in commerce, like slogans, mottos or logos that benefit from being registered with the approrpriate governemental agencies -- registration offers greater protection and the possibility of enhanced remedies. PLF works with startups and small businesses to determine whether registration for any marks or works makes sense and, if so, to properly complete searches and applications.

OWNERSHIP AGREEMENTS

Multi-owner business arrangements, and even single-member LLCs, should formally create an ownership agreement that reflect positions that are agreeable to all of the owners. By having a "meeting of the minds" at the outset, difficulties down the road and potentially costly litigation can be avoided. Ownership agreements also allow owners to specify what their rights and duties will be, and to determine the conditions and procedures for important business events, like changes in ownership, or dissolution. PLF is here to help you with your parternship, operating, or shareholder agreements as well as company bylaws.

PRIVACY POLICIES & TERMS OF USE

As of September of 2018, any business that collects certain "personal information" on Colorado residents is now required to establish and implement a security policy to govern how they will store and dispose of relevant paper or electronic documents. Other data privacy regulations require certain businesses to provide notice regarding their collection, use, sharing, and disposal of other sorts of "personal information." PLF keeps up with developments in this rapidly evolving legal landscape and assists startups and small businesses with compliance and crafting appropriate policies and terms.





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July 1, 2019

Registering Immoral or Scandalous Trademarks after the FUCT Decision:

 Last Monday, in a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Iancu v. Brunetti, holding that "the Lanham Act's prohibition on registration of 'immoral or scandalous' trademarks violates the First Amendment." As a result, there is no longer a bar on registering marks with the United States Patent and Trademark Office ("USPTO") that consist of or comprise offensive, obscene, profane, vulgar, or otherwise scandalous words or images. In making this determination, the Court reexamined the logic of…



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June 7, 2019

Independent Contractor Agreements: When Actions Speak Louder than Words

 Startups and small businesses are often cautious of taking on additional employees. This may leave potential employers wondering whether they can simply reach an agreement with individual workers who will be classified as independent contractors instead of employees. However, in Colorado as elsewhere, things aren’t quite so simple. In Colorado, there is a presumption that workers are employees…



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Apr. 25, 2019

Top 5 Reasons Why You Need a Solid Privacy Policy

 You've designed a website for your business. Or, maybe you've developed a mobile application (app) to help you connect with your customers. If so, you may be wondering whether you should have a privacy policy. If you're interested in learning more about whether you need a privacy policy for your website or mobile app, below are the top five (5) reasons to develop and implement a solid privacy…



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