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Dear Founders: Here Are Three IP Mistakes to Watch-Out For

Scott Edward Walker

Over the past six months, my firm has been engaged by a number of startups with significant intellectual property (“IP”) problems. In a couple of cases, the founders played lawyer on their own; in the other cases, the founders either used (i) a Web service that did not address IP issues or (ii) an inexperienced law firm.

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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.) The assets you can protect may include your “core technology&# like source code, hardware designs, architectures, processes, formulas. Type of IP. _. non-public technology. new technology.

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The Next Entrepreneurs And Startups

YoungUpstarts

While much future forecasting looks to digital disruption , we shouldn’t think that the only fields that can be subject to disruption are those that are essentially technology-based, such as cloud services and data management.

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

Both Sides of the Table

When to get a lawyer - If you plan to be a venture or angel backed technology company (what I mostly write about) the best time to start meeting and getting to know lawyers is long before you ever start your company. Shame about not getting it in legal writing that you owned the original IP. He mostly covers Southern California.

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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. He was raised and educated in London. He has written several books on intellectual property law.

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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My.

Steve Blank

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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How To Use Immersion To Create Amazing Experiences

Duct Tape Marketing

And the technology we developed in the early two thousands and onward was blood draws and, you know, not really ready for prime time in the business setting. So now being able to get that data, the electrical signals associated with that from things like a smart watch, now you have a scalable and usable technology outside the lab.