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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. Open-Source IP.

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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

This lecture order was embedded in the Udacity Lectures , the syllabi and educators guide I open-sourced. 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. Lessons Learned.

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Startup IP tips before you launch

NZ Entrepreneur

This article is the second of a three-part series by Dr Sudhanshu Ayyagari that focuses on the importance of intellectual property for startup companies. Intellectual property rights are an indispensable consideration in ensuring your startup has the best possibility to succeed in the future. i) Disclosing your idea.

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“Fantastic” beats “efficient”

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

In fact, at WPEngine we’re already doing it in several ways: Contributing everything back to open source. Traditional businesses drenched in outdated notions of the value of intellectual property would be horrified to learn that we give away our software for free.

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Corporate Bad Activity Against Innovators

Feld Thoughts

I’ve always loved his hacker spirit, amazing ability to do things no one else could envision, and willingness to open source a lot of his work to lead the way for others. Virtual reality nightmare: ZeniMax challenges Facebook, Oculus for Rift intellectual property.

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

For three years I worked at Bug Labs (open source hardware company). We not only told everyone what we did, we posted the source code and the blueprints online. Details: So, at the beginning of his post, to him an idea is something worth protecting as intellectual property. Nobody ever stole our ideas.

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

But this is just the kindthat tends to be open source: operating systems, programminglanguages, editors, and so on. Oneof the worst things that can happen to a startup is to run into intellectual property problems. But its hard to raise money with an IP cloud over your head, becauseinvestors cant judge how serious it is.

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