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How to Protect Your Intellectual Property

The Startup Magazine

All of your ideas and finished works should be stored properly, away from everyone else—including employees. File Several Types of Non-Disclosure Agreements. There are several types of non-disclosure agreements , and it’s important that you understand which are most relevant to your business and can be beneficial to you.

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Startup Survival Guide: Mitigating Legal Risks and Criminal Challenges

The Startup Magazine

There are various strategies you can employ to mitigate this risk, such as obtaining patents or trademarks, implementing trade secret protection measures, and using non-disclosure agreements with employees and contractors. It’s also imperative to conduct regular audits of your IP assets and keep them up-to-date.

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Tips For Hiring An Independent Contractor

YoungUpstarts

Any person or business you hire to do work on your behalf, but not as an employee, is an independent contractor. You pay employees for the result of the work and the ability to control how the job is done. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has set guidelines for determining if someone is an employee or an independent contractor.

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

NZ Entrepreneur

Using non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) can ensure your know-how is not misused. One employee of General Motors sold trade secrets a few years back, costing the company an estimated $40m of research and development spanning over 20 years. appeared first on NZ Entrepreneur Magazine.

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Cloud Tools: Useful PDF Forms For Business and Education

The Startup Magazine

The nondisclosure agreement is a written contract, in which a Disclosing Party binds a recipient of confidential information from releasing it to a third party or to the general public. You can download the non-disclosure agreement form to stay on the safe side. Assignments Sheet.

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3 Things to Consider When Staffing a Software Development Project

mashable.com

You can deal directly with full-time or freelance/contracted employees, or you can outsource using local or offshore development firms. Full-Time Employees, Freelancers (directly) or Contracts (through staffing companies) – This approach allows your company to maintain total control as it manages the fine details of the project.

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Create your IP strategy early to avoid common pitfalls

NZ Entrepreneur

Otherwise, a company should never publicly disclose their invention to anyone without a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) until a decision is made to patent the technology and file an initial patent application. Therefore, ownership of all IP should be clearly documented in writing for both employees and independent contractors.

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