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Nuts & Bolts of Intellectual Property for New Startups

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So you’ve chosen a name for your startup, product, or both. Most traditional, bricks-and-mortar businesses have substantial, often enormous hard assets, such as raw materials and supplies, work-in-process, inventory, manufacturing equipment, real estate and more, as well as armies of employees. Intellectual property.

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Battling Big Business Bullies On The IP Playground: Minimizing The Risk Of Intellectual Property Litigation

YoungUpstarts

Intellectual property (IP), which is often the heart of a startup’s business strategy, constitutes a small subset of those legal rights. The four types of intellectual property are trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets and patents. Trademarks are an easily recognizable form of intellectual property.

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13 Critical Small Business Legal Requirements to Start a Business

Up and Running

Generally, the size is based on the number of employees and annual receipts for a given period. Small Business Administration , an organization is considered to be a small business if their: Firm revenue ranges from $1 million to $40 million Number of employees is between 100 and 1,500. Register your business name.

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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.

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Intellectual Property for Startups in the Real World

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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. I’m proud to contribute to the effort and always enjoy reading what the other authors have to say. trade secret).

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. We chose the name Island because we want to encourage our consumers to kick back and take in the simple joy cannabis brings. 1- From our daughter.

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Why Entrepreneurs Must Learn to Love Paperwork  

The Startup Magazine

Whenever you get into any kind of legal dispute, whether it’s an intellectual property claim, a tax audit, or a lawsuit from a disgruntled customer or former employee, the best tool in your arsenal is written records. Protect your intellectual property. Be able to prove due diligence whenever you can.