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Small Business Guide To Protecting Data From Disasters

YoungUpstarts

Their intellectual property that details their new product or service is exceedingly valuable and warrants the utmost in protection. If all of the firm’s content and IP is instead kept in the cloud, the earthquake will disrupt business operations, but the team can get back on its feet quickly.

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Do It Right The First Time, Part II: Visit the Doctor or House Call?

Gust

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.

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Critical Patent Strategies Startups Can Use From Large Companies

Up and Running

Patent strategies are a series of steps that a company takes in order to secure and position its inventions, innovations, and/or intellectual property. A serious patent claim against a startup’s key product can be severe enough to create an emergency warranting dedicated in-house counsel immediately. What is a patent strategy?