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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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Nuts & Bolts of Intellectual Property for New Startups

Gust

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. Tech startups are at the other extreme.

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Six Criteria for Outsourcing the Right Processes

Startup Professionals Musings

Intellectual property content. Some country cultures have little appreciation for software as intellectual property. Near-shore and local outsourcing alternatives are manageable with contracts and non-disclosure agreements. Protect your intellectual property. Technology level.

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What intellectual property (IP) steps should a startup take?

NZ Entrepreneur

IP steps for startups should be the same as for large multinationals, but within their budget. On the flip-side, the brand may play an important role in the value of the startup eg, TradeMe, Xero and 42 Below. Startups cannot afford to have such speed bumps. Startups cannot always afford a full suite of IP protection.

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Six Key Factors in the Right Outsourcing Decision

Startup Professionals Musings

Intellectual property content. Some country cultures have little appreciation for software as intellectual property. Near-shore and local outsourcing alternatives are manageable with contracts and non-disclosure agreements. Protect your intellectual property. Technology level.

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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.) That changed when I joined the board of a startup, and we sued Microsoft and Sony on the same day for patent infringement – and won $120 million. Intellectual Property. Type of IP. _.

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To Outsource or Not to Outsource Software

Startup Professionals Musings

Intellectual property content. Some country cultures have little appreciation for software as intellectual property. Near-shore and local outsourcing alternatives are manageable with contracts and non-disclosure agreements. Protect your intellectual property. Technology level.

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