Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2009

Early on in my career I took a “we’re moving too fast to deal with lawyers” attitude to patents and Intellectual Property (IP.) Type of IP. _. Under California law, employers may own inventions that are “related to employer’s reasonably anticipated R&D.” For some of these assets, you get protection automatically.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy » 24 Responses Tweets that mention Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My Slides?! That’s not found in a set of slides. Filed under: E.piphany « Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 1: Are Those My Initials?

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2011

Davis , a German applied Laser research group, a California organic farm er who wanted to be an Earlyvangelist , four service partners and three weed/pest management consultants. Any IP you need to license? The team talked to an agricultural sensor expert at U.C. His lecture covered: What resources do you need to build your business?

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

You don’t need to worry about any Intellectual Property (IP) issues. The next week another team, working on a new type of solid oxide fuel cell, remarked, “Professor Blank, in our industry there’s a ton of patents and stuff and people tell us we shouldn’t be out there unless we start patent protecting all our IP.”

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

In an IP licensing business, legal and finance are the sharp end of the stick. Later on in this same company’s life, sales will become the pointy end and product development moves to a supporting role. In other companies it may be that manufacturing or finance is the sharp end of the stick. It varies by company and changes over time.

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