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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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Common Intellectual Property mistakes made by startups

NZ Entrepreneur

This article is the third of a three-part series by Baldwins Intellectual Property that focuses on the importance of intellectual property for startup companies. What is intellectual property? Intellectual property is about creations of the mind.

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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

Agile Engineering” to have teams prototype, test, and iterate their idea while discovering if they have a profitable business model. Hypotheses about Intellectual Property, Reimbursement, Regulation and Clinical Trials found on the left side of canvas are as, or more important than those on the right side of the canvas.

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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.) At one of my entrepreneurship classes at Stanford, Dan Dorosin , of Fenwick & West LLP guest lectures about startups and Intellectual Property. Intellectual Property.

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7 Keys To Strategic Partnerships That Profit Everyone

Startup Professionals Musings

Strategic partnerships in this context can take the form of joint ventures, intellectual property licensing, outsourcing agreements, or even cooperative research. The information exchange from day-to-day interactions of engineers and marketers will drive you enhance your own processes to be more competitive.

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

Intellectual property protection is great on paper and “limited” in practice. Eventually, China’s innovation-driven economy needs intellectual property rights and anti-trust laws that are enforced. Turnover of employees in capital in Beijing is very high. Employees work here for a few months and are suddenly gone.

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Qualcomm’s Corporate Entrepreneurship Program – Lessons Learned (Part 2)

Steve Blank

Employees had a different concern – they simply wanted more clarity on how to continue to be involved, since formal rules of engagement ended with the bootcamp. We should have asked for a broader innovation time off and incentive policy for employees, managers, and executives. We needed a for a Proof of Concept center.