Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2023

Will the solution give you an “unfair competitive advantage,” meaning no competitor already has it, or can replicate your solution without your skills or intellectual property. Don’t try to explain your technical implementation, your patent algorithm, or your unfair competitive advantage here. Do include some quantification.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Intellectual property is a business issue, not a technical issue. Patents can apply to innovative user interfaces, processes or a new technology algorithm. Patents are not worth the effort, since big companies will win. Business efforts should start only after the product is right.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Will the solution give you an “unfair competitive advantage,” meaning no competitor already has it, or can replicate your solution without your skills or intellectual property. Don’t try to explain your technical implementation, your patent algorithm, or your unfair competitive advantage here. Do include some quantification.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 30, 2015

In the past, CPC was utilized as a measure of Google’s success in driving traffic to its network: higher CPC typically indicated Google’s search placement and results algorithms were providing high value to advertisers aiming to get their services or products in front of an eager customer base.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Moreover, patent law in most countries says that software “algorithms” aren't patentable. So lawyers routinely frame a software algorithm as a "system and method" to meet the criteria. To be patentable, an invention has to be more than new. It also has to be “novel” and non-obvious.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2011

Moreover, patent law in most countries says that software “algorithms” aren't patentable. So lawyers routinely frame a software algorithm as a "system and method" to meet the criteria. To be patentable, an invention has to be more than new. It also has to be “novel” and non-obvious.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 10, 2012

If some other company steals your intellectual property, your dreams can give way to lights out, a phone call to the lawyer, and "Who wants some vodka in their Red Bull?". Worse, Porter warns, breaches of intellectual property are hard to detect. And don't think that you're safe just because you're small. "IP

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2017

Will the solution give you an “unfair competitive advantage,” meaning no competitor already has it, or can replicate your solution without your skills or intellectual property. Don’t try to explain your technical implementation, your patent algorithm, or your unfair competitive advantage here. Do include some quantification.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Assign real value to intellectual property. NewCo has filed a patent on one of their software tool algorithms, which is very positive, and puts them several steps ahead of others who may be venturing into the same area. NewCo might be able to pick up an initial $50K valuation on this item.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Assign real value to intellectual property. NewCo has filed a patent on one of their software tool algorithms, which is very positive, and puts them several steps ahead of others who may be venturing into the same area. NewCo might be able to pick up an initial $50K valuation on this item.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

There are a lot of patent applications for mathematical algorithms that get rejected during the patent examining phase or maybe later in court proceedings. Patentscope by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) gives anyone access to 65+ millions of patent documents. Mathematical formulae. Patentscope.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2010

Moreover, patent law in most countries says that software “algorithms” aren't patentable. So lawyers routinely frame a software algorithm as a "system and method" to meet the criteria. To be patentable, an invention has to be more than new. It also has to be “novel” and non-obvious. Software technology changes rapidly.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

Assign real value to intellectual property. NewCo has filed a patent on one of their software tool algorithms, which is very positive, and puts them several steps ahead of others who may be venturing into the same area. NewCo might be able to pick up an initial $50K valuation on this item.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Assign real value to intellectual property. NewCo has filed a patent on one of their software tool algorithms, which is very positive, and puts them several steps ahead of others who may be venturing into the same area. NewCo might be able to pick up an initial $50K valuation on this item.

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Transformify

JULY 23, 2018

Powerful matching algorithms are used to allocate the projects and ensure a stringent and high-quality evaluation process. What is your intellectual property policy? To better consider and evaluate each proposal, the pool of expert evaluators has been increased significantly. What is needed for a successful internationalisation?

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 27, 2011

It was a team of two sharp Computer Science PhDs, they had core new technology in the form of the algorithms they ran in the back-end, and also core new technology when it came to the display of information. Modista was the perfect fit for K9.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Prior to crowdSPRING, I was producer and production manager in the film and television industry and Ross was an attorney in private practice specializing in intellectual property. However, after 18 months of doing that it all came crashing down one day when Google changed their algorithm. I was working in digital marketing.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Perhaps it’s a complex algorithm of all of the above? Despite its recent financial crisis, the WIPO cites Cyprus as a country showing great potential in intellectual property and technology output. What’s the magic formula that helps a city to incubate innovation? Nicosia, Cyprus?.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

In one case, a company was the victim of an insider cyber-attack when the employee used their access to steal the company’s trading algorithms. They’ll also be able to help you with stolen intellectual property issues. The company was then able to make adjustments, and caught another employee later on.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 16, 2021

Artists have brilliant minds that accountants and engineers couldn’t even create an algorithm for. If not, you might meet a web designer or an intellectual property attorney. Why is that important for artists aspiring to be entrepreneurs? Erin: Artists are creators and innovators. TSM: This is great advice.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Patents can protect inventions, formulas, and algorithms. See Also: Intellectual Property: How Do You Protect Your Creations? They’ll talk about whether or not you have a so-called secret sauce that sets you apart from competition. All that is about defensibility, also called barriers to entry.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Details: So, at the beginning of his post, to him an idea is something worth protecting as intellectual property. So, with such deliberate obscurity and ambiguity, all he has is a way to insult entrepreneurs so that all he has is that steaming pile.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

Humans combine data with algorithms (see here for a list) to train a model using that data. Machine learning algorithms – computer programs that adjust themselves to perform better as they are exposed to more data. Department of Defense has created a dedicated organization to ensure its deployment. But What Is It?

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

Today with algorithms we have a secret black box. Just like last century, corporations claim they can’t tell us what’s inside their algorithms as it’s ‘a trade secret’. I’ll add that they do actually make editorial decisions when they filter content through algorithms. Let me give you an example.

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Seeing Both Sides

MAY 11, 2012

The young company was recently in the news for the release of their latest underwriting algorithm. Since when does a company get big time TechCrunch coverage for releasing a new algorithm? Each of these companies has based their intellectual property on sophisticated machine learning techniques developed by dozens of PhDs.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Before founding crowdSPRING , I was a trial attorney focusing on complex commercial and intellectual property litigation. For example, if your small business is creating software programs, you would generally be unable to protect under copyright law the algorithms, methods, systems, ideas or functions of software.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Before founding crowdSPRING , I was a trial attorney focusing on complex commercial and intellectual property litigation. For example, if your small business is creating software programs, you would generally be unable to protect under copyright law the algorithms, methods, systems, ideas or functions of software.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Before founding crowdSPRING , I was a trial attorney focusing on complex commercial and intellectual property litigation. For example, if your small business is creating software programs, you would generally be unable to protect under copyright law the algorithms, methods, systems, ideas or functions of software.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Register intellectual property early. If you can’t find anything innovative in your user interface, process or algorithms, you need to think again and add something for a competitive barrier to entry and increased valuation. Any intellectual property will help, including trademarks, copyrights and domain names.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2017

Patents and other intellectual property go to the first person who files, rather than the first person with the idea. It’s more a function of good people and good relationships, than a scientific algorithm. Time is money in business. Ideas are very fragile. If you act now, you won’t spend your life wondering “What if.?”

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Campus Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2012

Much is being made about online learning and the actions by high profile professors and universities in extending their coursework and intellectual property beyond their recent boundaries (MITx, etc.) The three non-Stanford courses are in model thinking (Michigan), software as a service and computer vision (Berkeley).

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