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Build a winning IP programme for successful innovation

NZ Entrepreneur

Being strategic with your intellectual property (IP) can be really important. But what is often even more important, especially for businesses built on ongoing innovation, is having a strong IP programme. Without a well-designed IP programme and its processes, the best intended strategies can fail. IP education.

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

Do you have legal (Founder Agreement, IP, etc.) Graphic design? UI/UX design? Tell me about the business. How are you funding this? What level of funding do you currently have? Who’s helping you with fundraising? What are your big milestones? Do you have any deals done or in progress that are tied to those milestones?

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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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Technical Signs Of A Well-Managed Business

YoungUpstarts

While there are specific tools designed to tackle specific business challenges, the best way to really benefit from cloud-based solutions is through integration. Fortunately, many of the services available on the market are designed to be easily integrated, either through an API or other means. One IP for All.

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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. _. Or it can be your brand , logo or domain name.

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13 Critical Small Business Legal Requirements to Start a Business

Up and Running

Intellectual property (IP) is anything created by the human intellect that’s protected by the law from unauthorized use by other people. Innovation can be a product, design, or a process of doing things to solve a technical problem. Industrial Design – Rights given for a product’s aesthetic or ornamental aspect.

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Why Entrepreneurs Must Learn to Love Paperwork  

The Startup Magazine

Intellectual property (IP) is often among the most valuable assets for a company, even if it doesn’t seem that way on the surface. Business paperwork helps you protect your IP, whether it starts out as nothing more than a company name and logo or comprises incredibly sophisticated code that is the heart of your revolutionary app.