Videos

Entity Formation and Structuring

BKK Roundtable, Episode 4: Your First Hire, and the Equity You Give Away

Equity feels free when the company has no value yet. That is exactly why founders give it to their first hire without asking whether there is any way to take it back.

November 9, 2026

Entity Formation and Structuring

BKK Roundtable, Episode 3: Employee or Contractor, and What You Own

Calling someone a contractor does not make them one, and sending a 1099 does not either. What they actually are is what decides who owns the work they build for you.

November 2, 2026

Entity Formation and Structuring

BKK Roundtable, Episode 2: What Founders Sign, and What It Decides Later

Founders sign the formation documents and move on. Those same documents decide who makes decisions, who can be fired, and what holds up when the company is sold.

October 28, 2026

Business and Financial Services

BKK Roundtable, Episode 1: What Founders Get Wrong Before Day One

BKK Roundtable is a video series from Bean, Kinney & Korman where attorneys from different practices work the same problem at one table. One set of facts, handed from practice to practice, so you can see exactly where the answers diverge.

October 21, 2026

Intellectual Property

The BKK Beat, Episode 32: IP Law in the News - Fender's Stratocaster, Part 5

In Episode 32, Kandis Koustenis and Tim Hughes conclude the Fender Stratocaster series by examining the business and litigation risks of aggressive IP enforcement. They discuss public backlash, the danger of winning a legal fight while alienating core customers, and why brand protection should not "kill the patient in the process."

August 20, 2026

Intellectual Property

The BKK Beat, Episode 31: IP Law in the News - Fender's Stratocaster, Part 4

In Episode 31, Kandis Koustenis and Tim Hughes continue their Fender Stratocaster series by asking what may happen if Fender's renewed enforcement campaign moves from cease-and-desist letters into contested litigation. They discuss PRS and its Silver Sky as a potential test case for Fender's current claims.

August 12, 2026

Intellectual Property

The BKK Beat, Episode 30: IP Law in the News - Fender's Stratocaster, Part 3

In Episode 30, Kandis Koustenis and Tim Hughes continue their Fender Stratocaster series. After examining copyright, trademark, and trade dress, they turn to copyright protection for useful articles and design-patent protection for ornamental product designs.

August 4, 2026

Intellectual Property

The BKK Beat, Episode 29: IP Law in the News — Fender’s Stratocaster, Part 2

For Episode 29, Kandis Koustenis and Tim Hughes continue their multi-part discussion of Fender's efforts to protect the Stratocaster design. This installment turns to trademark law and trade dress: what product-design trade dress can protect, why trademark rights may continue indefinitely, and what Fender would need to prove to show that consumers associate the guitar's body shape exclusively with Fender. They also examine acquired distinctiveness, the evidence courts consider, the effect of wi

July 29, 2026

Intellectual Property

The BKK Beat, Episode 28: IP Law in the News - Fender's Stratocaster, Part 1

For Episode 28, Kandis Koustenis and Tim Hughes begin a multi-part discussion of Fender's efforts to protect the Stratocaster design. Using Tim's guitar as a visual reference, they examine what makes the design recognizable, which features may be functional, the significance and limits of a default judgment, Fender's cease-and-desist campaign, and the line between familiar design elements and an impermissible copy.

July 21, 2026

Employment Law

The BKK Beat, Episode 27: Employment and IP Law in the News

The BKK Beat is a video series from the attorneys at Bean, Kinney & Korman, bringing viewers an inside look at news narratives through BKK's legal lens. For episode 27, Kandis Koustenis and Doug Taylor continue their discussion of the class action lawsuit filed against Meta over its AI-enabled smart glasses.

May 27, 2026