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Battling Big Business Bullies On The IP Playground: Minimizing The Risk Of Intellectual Property Litigation

YoungUpstarts

Intellectual property (IP), which is often the heart of a startup’s business strategy, constitutes a small subset of those legal rights. Not surprisingly, the best way to avoid IP litigation is to prepare for IP litigation, and the only way to prepare is to know the rules. Generally, popular name brands are trademarks.

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Nuts & Bolts of Intellectual Property for New Startups

Gust

So you’ve chosen a name for your startup, product, or both. Even in purely online businesses, to scale from zero to millions of users: in the 1990s, an Internet company might have had to build a whole data center from scratch (as we did at Excite@Home, only to ultimately shut it down in bankruptcy ). Intellectual property.

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5/25-NYC – Investing in Intellectual Capital: Patents, Trademarks, Domain Names, Litigation, Government Rights, and other Intangible Assets

David Teten

I’m excited about the program below on “Investing in Intellectual Capital: Intellectual Capital: Patents, Trademarks, Domain Names, Litigation, Government Rights, and other Intangible Assets” Click here to make a reservation.

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Copywrong Again: Founding the Next Pinterest or Napster?

Gust

Does using a friend’s name or photo in a Facebook “Sponsored Story” (e.g., “David S. Copyright is not the only type of IP right implicated — and others such as rights of privacy and publicity become increasingly relevant in the age of social media — but it provides many of the most accessible examples.

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6 Compelling Reasons Why You Should File Your Patent in the U.S

Kodorra

A provisional patent, as the name implies, is like a temporary patent that gives you an edge in the filing date (also known as a priority date). Unlike some other countries, United States have ironclad laws that protect intellectual properties regardless of your geographic location, as long that the IP crime is committed on U.S

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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

We are still reeling from the first order of consequences of the pandemic, but we are also starting to see the second and third order effects, unemployment, hunger, mass bankruptcy, and the inequity and injustice of this crisis. Jake Soberal : Hi, my name is Jake Soberal. He was our IP attorney.

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Piercing the Corporate Veil of Sweat Equity

grasshopperherder.com

All names redacted.). It’s often made worse because some clever people like to name the corporations very similarly. The “name every corporate shell almost the same thing” is an incredibly common convention that makes just talking through the equity split confusing. Name (required). Valuations.