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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy

Steve Blank

Early on in my career I took a “we’re moving too fast to deal with lawyers” attitude to patents and Intellectual Property (IP.) At one of my entrepreneurship classes at Stanford, Dan Dorosin , of Fenwick & West LLP guest lectures about startups and Intellectual Property. Intellectual Property.

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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Richard Neff, Head IP & Tech Group of Greenberg Glusker Richard Neff is a partner at the law firm of Greenberg Glusker in Los Angeles and Chair of the Firm's Intellectual Property and Technology Practice Group. He has written several books on intellectual property law. He was raised and educated in London.

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Forget Presidential Politics: Here’s How We Create Jobs — And How You Can Help

Gust

As a native of Silicon Valley , I’ve witnessed the creative destruction of wave after wave of innovation as nearby corporate campuses repopulated themselves : From defense contractors to data centers , computer mainframe manufacturers to Internet search engines. Intellectual Property.

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Elon Musk Makes Right Decision Over Tesla Patents

YoungUpstarts

This paid off big for the technology giant because it guaranteed its search engine and other digital services supported by advertising would be prominently featured on them. In Orange County, California, for example, there is a street called State College. The stores both win, and, of course, the customer definitely wins as well.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

In addition, I do a few consulting projects on the side, in the areas of product strategy, search engine optimization, and intellectual property. What networking events in Los Angeles or Southern California do you go to? We have a working alpha version now and are planning to launch a beta in the next 6-8 weeks.

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9 Big Businesses That Began In College

YoungUpstarts

As it is with most teenagers, the concept of intellectual property didn’t exactly dominate Fanning’s thinking at the time, although, in his defense, it is unlikely that he could have predicted how popular Napster would become — or how many people would try to sue him for copyright infringement.

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Hacking For Defense In Silicon Valley

Steve Blank

In a major break from the past, where the military designed all its own weapons, 10,000 scientists and engineers from academia worked in civilian-run weapons labs (most headquartered in universities) in an organization called the Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD). In World War II the U.S. After the war the U.S.