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How to Protect Your Intellectual Property

The Startup Magazine

They simply didn’t take the proper steps to protect its intellectual property. If you aren’t sure whether you’re sitting on intellectual property, it helps to understand what intellectual property actually means. Think about intellectual property as anything you’d want to copyright, trademark, or patent.

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8 New Business Keys To Success For Real Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

The days of lengthy, text-heavy, business plan documents prepared by expensive experts are behind us. Before you bring on partners, develop intellectual property, raise capital, or generate revenues, you need to establish an official business entity. Rounding out the team with employees and freelancers.

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5 Risks You As A Consultant Should Know About

YoungUpstarts

Violating intellectual property rights. But even if you are not working in a creative field, intellectual property rights are something that should concern you. Losing documents. Sometimes, documents get lost, and if they are valuable, you can be sued for losing them. People make mistakes, as do computers.

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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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Six Tips to Make Sure You Aren’t Poaching Intellectual Property Along with Employees

YoungUpstarts

If you’re like most business leaders, you’re not above engaging in a little employee-poaching to improve your position. The first is hiring a new employee with the intention of gaining access to confidential information about another company. Well yes… except when it’s not. Think again.

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8 Tips For Getting Your Startup Right The First Time

Startup Professionals Musings

The days of lengthy, text-heavy, business plan documents prepared by expensive experts are behind us. Before you bring on partners, develop intellectual property, raise capital, or generate revenues, you need to establish an official business entity. Rounding out the team with employees and freelancers.

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Tips For Protecting Intellectual Property

YoungUpstarts

It is important to take steps to protect your intellectual property. A simple way to protect your intellectual property is the hold off on filing a patent. Once a patent is filed, others can create similar products using workarounds without violating any intellectual property rights. Avoid Joint Ownership.