{"id":10765,"date":"2025-07-02T18:02:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T18:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/situational.com\/?page_id=10765"},"modified":"2025-07-02T18:02:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T18:02:20","slug":"intellectual-property-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/situational.com\/resources\/intellectual-property-guidelines\/","title":{"rendered":"Intellectual Property Guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Introduction\u00a0<\/h2>\n

At The Center for Leadership Studies, we take great pride in and care of our intellectual property (IP). As an organization, we put a considerable amount of time, resources, energy, and effort into not only protecting our IP, but into correcting content inaccuracy and infringement within the marketplace. As the sole provider and source of\u00a0Situational Leadership\u00ae<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0training, we want to share some best practices and guidelines for anyone interested in sharing anything related to our IP.<\/p>\n

First, if you found this page on our website or were directed to this page by someone from The Center for Leadership Studies, let us start by saying thank you! Thank you for your desire to write about the Situational Leadership\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0Model (or our other trademarks and\/or copyrighted works). We sincerely appreciate you taking the additional step to ensure you are correctly writing, attributing, and referencing our work. Please use the below information as a guideline when using or mentioning our IP.<\/p>\nContact Us<\/a>\n <\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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Trademarks and Copyrights<\/h2>\n

Below is an abbreviated list of our trademarked terms (or simply, \u201cmarks\u201d):<\/p>\n

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  1. Situational Leadership\u00ae<\/sup><\/li>\n
  2. Situational Parenting\u00a9<\/sup>:<\/li>\n
  3. Situational Selling\u00ae<\/sup><\/li>\n
  4. Isitlead\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0<\/sup><\/li>\n
  5. Situational Coaching\u00ae<\/sup><\/li>\n
  6. Performance Readiness\u00ae<\/sup><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Please\u00a0contact us<\/a>\u00a0for a complete list of our intellectual property<\/p>\n

    In addition to the above, our copyrights include all courses in our curricula, the content of our workshops, material, blogs, website posts, books, and more. The appearance, layout, color scheme, and design of The Center for Leadership Studies website are part of our protected trade dress. These are some of The Center for Leadership Studies\u2019 intellectual property, and they are registered and owned by Leadership Studies, Inc., doing business as The Center for Leadership Studies (\u201cCLS\u201d). You may not use them without our prior written permission, except as authorized in this Intellectual Property Usage Guidelines.<\/p>\n

    If we think that your use of our intellectual property is in violation of any of our legal terms or these guidelines, or if we feel that your use isn\u2019t in our best interest, we will pursue appropriate legal action.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/section>\n\n\n\n

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    Trademark Use<\/strong><\/h2>\n

    A trademark is a word, phrase, symbol, design, or a combination of these things that identifies a product or service. \u00a0A trademark will provide legal protection of such trademarked term(s).<\/p>\n

    Your use of any CLS marks should not suggest any sponsorship, affiliation or endorsement by us and you should not use any name or mark confusingly similar to our marks. This means that you can\u2019t freely use our marks, including logos, on any material or form unless you receive written permission from CLS or the use falls under specific circumstances authorized by law.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/section>\n\n\n\n

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    About the Situational Leadership\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0Mark<\/strong><\/h2>\n

    With over 15 million leaders trained, the Situational Leadership\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0Model is the most successful and widely adopted leadership training model available. We understand (and love!) that many of our supporters, in the leadership industry or not, want to spread the word about the Situational Leadership\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0approach. Situational Leadership\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0is a distinguished brand and is a trademark. The Situational Leadership\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0program\u2019s content is also copyrighted.<\/p>\n

    Before writing or posting anything about the Situational Leadership\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0mark, please carefully review the below information and guidelines.<\/p>\n

    You are authorized to use a trademark without prior permission, when, for example, you are mentioning the mark solely for informative purposes or to identify a specific product. Under these specific circumstances of usage, we want to inform you of the following ground rules applying to our marks. Our intent is to use the Situational Leadership\u00ae mark as a reference; however, the following will apply to all CLS marks:<\/p>\n