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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.) Type of IP. _. Copyright gives you the right to prevent others from copying, distributing or making derivatives of your work. Most of this post is from Dan’s lecture. What is Protectable. _. Copyright.

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Nuts & Bolts of Intellectual Property for New Startups

Gust

Having covered all the bases to ensure that your corporate name is available, the domain name can be acquired, and the name doesn’t infringe any existing trademarks (as we discussed last week ), now is a good time to look at the categories of intellectual property (IP) that are relevant to most startups. Intellectual property.

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Corporate Acquisitions of Startups: Why Do They Fail?

Steve Blank

Remember, the definition of a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. ( These include the product itself, the customer, the distribution channel, revenue model, how to get, keep and grow customers, resources and activities needed to build the business and costs.).

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Approaching The Blockchain With Business

The Startup Magazine

Blockdraw wants to merge the best available technologies and still have a trustlessness, verifiability, IP protection and security as standard. They bring high performance with robust distributed accounting, however they suffer security flaws and they don’t have a built-in compliance features. A New System. But that’s not all.

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Intellectual Property for Startups in the Real World

Gust

Last month we covered the basics of intellectual property (IP) for startups, including a simple taxonomy, some common issues and related documents for entrepreneurs to use when forming a new startup. How much is it worth investing in cultivating and enforcing an IP portfolio ? Barriers to entry ?

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Generative AI that can do WHAT?

VC Cafe

In doing so, OpenAI joins IBM, Microsoft, Amazon, Getty Images, Shutterstock and Adobe who’ve also explicitly said they’ll indemnify generative AI customers over IP rights claims. Asking for forgiveness rather than permission might work for startups, but definitely an inhibitor to adoption for enterprise clients.

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IP-Delivered TV: Are We There Yet?

Andrew Payne

It definitely has a unique feel and visual style. I’ve always felt television, in the limit, will be delivered over IP. Specialized, proprietary cable TV distribution is gradually giving way to big, fast, cheap IP pipes. I’ve started watching Netflix’s new original show, House of Cards.

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