Berkonomics

DECEMBER 20, 2018

So here goes: How would I find companies willing to license my intellectual property or to invest in a royalty stream from licenses? How do I appraise my intellectual property to estimate royalty rates? The license to use your IP can be in the form of a one-time payment or structured as a continuing fee.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 20, 2018

So here goes: How would I find companies willing to license my intellectual property or to invest in a royalty stream from licenses? How do I appraise my intellectual property to estimate royalty rates? The license to use your IP can be in the form of a one-time payment or structured as a continuing fee.

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Gust

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Nevertheless, choosing to defer basic corporate housekeeping items can be disastrous in some circumstances, as when the failure to spend a few thousand dollars on legal fees to clarify IP ownership and equity arrangements comes back to bite a successful company to the tune of millions of dollars on the eve of a liquidity event. Good stuff!

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 26, 2020

Startup lawyers specializing in intellectual property (IP) can help you file relevant patent applications. As soon as your start issuing stock of your company, complying with State and Federal Securities Regulations is mandatory. What would your startup be without your invention innovative idea? SEC Regulations.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Just as I was getting the swing of things the world shifted beneath my feet and the stock market went into a free fall and venture capital all but shut down for nearly a year. Defensible IP becomes insanely valuable?—?particularly Over the past 2.5 particularly as you achieve scale.

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The Startup Lawyer

JANUARY 26, 2010

The answer to this question depends on how well your startup secures its intellectual property. Even worse, this lost founder will have more leverage now with your startup than if you had acquired his intellectual property at the outset. How to Lock Down the IP. Lost Founders. Conclusion.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 23, 2011

may be the only country in the western world not to recognize intellectual property rights in typeface design. Ask crowdSPRING: Can Royalty-free Stock Be Used For Logo Design? You should remember that copyright law, and more specifically, as it relates to typefaces and fonts, varies by country. For example, the U.S.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Consequently, it may result in higher trade volume, FDI, and enhanced liquidity in the stock markets. Still, there is a lot to be done with regard to the legal system and the protection of intellectual property ( IP) rights. A developing economy often integrates more into the international economy as it grows.

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Gust

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Readers can anticipate my next point in continuing the analogy: It makes no more sense for a non-lawyer to prepare fundamental legal, governance, equity and intellectual property documents than it would for a patient to self-diagnose and begin taking prescription-strength antibiotics or other medications. Yes, it’s a mouthful.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

Would you want to run the risk that your former employer could have a claim against the intellectual property you’ve created because you broke company policies and developed your ideas on company resources? But these people seldom make retirement money from the stock options on these companies. Make sure you own your IP.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 14, 2012

From our launch back in 2008, we committed to upholding the strictest standards for the protection of intellectual property. New Stock Art Policy. Our policy concerning overused and overdone logo concepts is among those efforts. It is each creative’s responsibility to make sure that their entries are unique.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

So let’s take stock: What do we offer? The company has a checkered past, but it was the first corporation in history to issue stock in exchange for capital. This legal-financial ingenuity lead to the creation of the world’s first stock exchange in 1602: the Amsterdam Stock Exchange. Not in my view.

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Scott Edward Walker

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Button-down IP ownership and assignment issues (see post here ). Don’t issue stock options unless a proper option plan is in place and a valuation has been done in compliance with Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code (see post here ). Indeed, we have done more than 300 Startup Packages and the appeal is obvious: no billable hours.

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Startup Company Lawyer

JULY 20, 2009

Incorporating a company and issuing stock to the founders will help prevent misunderstandings among the founders about equity splits. Creating intellectual property. If there is any IP created and there is more than one founder, then incorporating an entity and assigning IP to the entity is important.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

Term-sheets for preferred stock offerings are designed to protect the investor in case things don’t go as well as planned.   Say I invest $1MM in a company and receive 40% of the stock. These include: ·       Vesting of Founder Stock.   Why is this fair?

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2020

Generally speaking, entrepreneurs, young professionals and other newcomers thinking about investing will have some familiarity with the stock market. You can buy shares in several different stocks, sure, but that doesn’t truly diversify your portfolio. Intellectual Property. Startup entrepreneurs know about risk.

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Scott Edward Walker

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

Mistake #2 : not buttoning-down IP ownership issues (at 10:20). C corp – “qualified small business stock” . Mistake #2: Not Buttoning-Down IP Ownership Issues. Moonlighting problem – if you work on your startup while currently employed by another company, your employer may have rights to your intellectual property/invention.

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Scott Edward Walker

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

Prior to the event, I conducted a legal workshop entitled “The 5 Biggest Legal Mistakes That Startups Make,” which I have uploaded below.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

The final straw came when I asked the latest 25-year old a simple ‘yes / no’ question related to stock options. link] Intellectual Property – Worthless To A Startup, Priceless To A Big Dumb Company | infoChachkie. [.] (IP) IP) is an ugly thing at a startup.

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blog.simeonov.com

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

It outlines key points of agreement between founders around IP ownership, equity ownership, vesting, etc. For example, without a clear vehicle (a company) to contribute intellectual property into, a founder who walks away may mean that the future company won’t own its own IP. An email would do.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 10, 2015

He had a stock option vesting program and had vested a significant amount of his stock but not all. He’s suing the company to get all of his stock options even though he signed a vesting agreement. I’m not being sued but the company is. A former founder of the company was terminated for lack of performance.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Additionally, it will be important to consider whether you plan on attracting investment capital through the distribution of stock, because only certain types of businesses can issue shares of ownership. The major downside of the LLC is that distribution of stock is not permitted, although interests can be assigned (this can get complicated).

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The way to getrich from a startup is to maximize the companys chances of succeeding,not to maximize the amount of stock you retain. The problem is, for the company to exist, you have todecide who the founders are, and how much stock they each have. Financially, a startup is like a pass/fail course. This does happen.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Jamie Lieberman: Intellectual property, particularly if you are a creator or a creative, understanding what it means when you create for others or if you are putting information out into the universe, what that means in order to protect the information that you’re creating is important. That’s your intellectual property.

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grasshopperherder.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Instead of giving me a valuation that I now have to negotiate, why not just issue me debt and let me buy stock at the seed round valuation (maybe with a risk premium) with that debt. I already own stock in two companies which own no intellectual property. Which corporate entity do the founders own stock in?

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

IP Location Tools. Intellectual Property Law For Startups Blog. British Library Business & IP Centre : Funded by the London Development Agency, the British Library supports inventors, small businesses and entrepreneurs from that first spark of inspiration to successfully launching and developing a business.

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