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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy

Steve Blank

Contract, NDA. _. The test for non-obvious is: given the prior art at the time of the invention, would a typical engineer 1) identify the problem, and 2) solve it with the invention? Red flags: Start of sales effort, Price list, price quotation, Trade show demonstration, Any demonstration not under NDA. Trade Secrets. _.