Banks Need More I/P Enforcement to Combat Customer Rip-Offs

What many are calling an sharp rise in identity theft is just one of the reasons financial entities should be more concerned about making sure that they dot all their "I"s and cross all their "T"s -- or, make that, their "TM"s -- when it comes to securing trademarks, patents and copyrights. "That's the problem, banks aren't protecting intellectual property," contends Las Vegas attorney Mark Tratos in the October 18, 2004 issue of Las Vegas Business Press.