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| Page 1 of 2 | Previous | Next | IP LAW FOR STARTUPS MARCH 1, 2011 The Top Five Reasons Entrepreneurs Should Learn About IP Law I’ve spent a lot of time fighting in court about intellectual property ownership and cleaning up startup’s IP messes. I’ve linked to some later posts that explain the topics in more detail and give specific tips about IP protection and avoiding legal liability. I really prefer prevention. Ignorance is not bliss. | | | | | | |
| | | IP LAW FOR STARTUPS NOVEMBER 21, 2010 Does My Startup Have Intellectual Property? Many companies, however, don’t consider IP protection until they need it.”. Here are the most common areas where most companies have some form of IP protection. When a company sells goods or services under a brand name that is not generic or merely descriptive, some state common law rights may arise. Tags: IP Basics | IP LAW FOR STARTUPS AUGUST 9, 2010 Protect Your Business Brand: The Proper Use of Trademarks Trademarks and service marks are essentially brand names. In contrast, a trade name is a name that identifies a business. Confusingly, sometimes the same name may be a trade name, a trademark and a service mark. key issue is whether the public understands whether the name is a common name or a brand name. | | | | | | | | |
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IP LAW FOR STARTUPS | FRIDAY, JULY 29, 2011  Creating a Strategic IP Plan: The First Step
The first step in creating a strategic IP plan is to understand just a little about the four basic types of intellectual property: trademarks. Your startup may need to use some or all types of IP legal protection for its core technology and assets. the name for your products or services. IP Basics Strategic IP Plan MORE >> -
IP LAW FOR STARTUPS | TUESDAY, JULY 26, 2011  Does Your Startup Have a Strategic IP Plan?
And few have a strategic IP plan. Screwing up your IP, however, can devastate the value of your company forever. Your employer may claim it owns all of the IP built on top of the old code. You may lose ownership of all of the IP of your key technology. It pays to think about IP law early and develop a strategic IP plan. MORE >> -
IP LAW FOR STARTUPS | FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 2010  Properly Documenting the Creation of Your Startup’s IP
After doing IP litigation for over a decade and spending thousands of hours conducting evidence discovery, people never cease to amaze me. If you think that you and your employees may be creating valuable IP, it is well worth the effort to require good idea and invention record keeping — from the start. Permanent ink for writing. MORE >> -
UNION SQUARE VENTURES | THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 2011 The PROTECT IP Act Will Slow Start-up Innovation
968, the PROTECT IP Act ("PIPA"). By requiring access to sites to be blocked by Domain Name System providers, it endangers the security and integrity of the Internet. 968, the PROTECT IP Act ("PIPA") represent a broad range of political views. They found that 2.4 jobs were created for every job lost to Internet efficiencies. MORE >> -
IP LAW FOR STARTUPS | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2011  Is Your Startup Ready for IP Due Diligence?
As an IP attorney who has conducted due diligence for VCs, Angels, and acquiring companies, I’m wondering: Is your startup ready for due diligence? Let me explain what IP due diligence is and why your preparation today is important. You want to be prepared for IP due diligence and not delay or derail your future deals. MORE >>
- Why Scalable Companies Should Use Fanciful or Arbitrary Brand Names IP LAW FOR STARTUPS | THURSDAY, JULY 14, 2011
- Part 1 Case Overview: What Entrepreneurs Can Learn from the Facebook Ownership Litigation IP LAW FOR STARTUPS | TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2010
- Protect The Internet FELD THOUGHTS | SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2011
- Website Legal Issues: Copyright Infringement and Protection IP LAW FOR STARTUPS | TUESDAY, MAY 17, 2011
- Pick the Perfect Name for Your Startup MASHABLE.COM | FRIDAY, MAY 28, 2010
- Website Legal Issues: Why Your Terms of Use May Be Critical IP LAW FOR STARTUPS | THURSDAY, MAY 26, 2011
- Copyright Law Does Not Protect Ideas IP LAW FOR STARTUPS | THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 2010
- How a Savvy Tattoo Artist Gave Warner Brothers a Hangover IP LAW FOR STARTUPS | FRIDAY, MAY 27, 2011
- The Law on Fonts and Typefaces: Frequently Asked Questions CROWDSPRING BLOG | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 2011
- Stay Out of Legal Hot Water: Website Trademark Issues IP LAW FOR STARTUPS | WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 2011
- Internet User Defined: A User by Any Other Name… IMMERSIVE WEB | MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 2012
- PIPA and SOPA Need a New Name MARK BIRCH | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2011
- Minimize the Risk of Being Sued by Your Former Employer: Quit Your Job Like a Baby IP LAW FOR STARTUPS | SUNDAY, MARCH 21, 2010
- Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy STEVE BLANK | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2009
- Flings Pop-Up Recycling and Trash Bins FELD THOUGHTS | TUESDAY, MAY 4, 2010
- Time to reset some passwords NATHAN HURST | SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2010
- Social Media Accounts are Intellectual Property STARTUP PROFESSIONALS MUSINGS | TUESDAY, MAY 3, 2011
- Special: The 56 Israeli Companies Exhibiting in Mobile World Congress 2011 VC CAFE | SUNDAY, JANUARY 16, 2011
- 9 Ways to Get More Out of Google Analytics FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 2012
- Are You An Internet Entrepreneur In Colorado? Oppose PIPA! FELD THOUGHTS | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2011
- Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – The Startup Genome Project STEVE BLANK | SUNDAY, MAY 29, 2011
- How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 2010
- 10 Lies Never to Tell Investors FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 2012
- PostgreSQL tips and tricks GABRIEL WEINBERG | SATURDAY, MAY 28, 2011
- My history of (mostly failed) side projects and startups GABRIEL WEINBERG | MONDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2010
- LawPivot: Crowdsourced, Confidential Legal Advice for Startups READWRITESTART | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2011
- Startup Branding: A Practical Guide for Entrepreneurs ONSTARTUPS | FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2012
- An Extensive Guide To Web Form Usability UXDESIGN.SMASHINGMAGAZINE.COM | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2011
- Weighing the Risk of Disclosure to Potential Investors IP LAW FOR STARTUPS | FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 2010
- What's Going on With SOPA? FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2011
- Meet the Online Mischief-Makers FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 2012
- The Forgotten Founder: YouSendIt’s Khalid Shaikh FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2012
- ‘Dear Abby’ Style Advice to Real Entrepreneurs STARTUP PROFESSIONALS MUSINGS | SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2010
- 6 Startup Lessons From the Complexity of Cell Phones READWRITESTART | SUNDAY, MAY 6, 2012
- I’m sticking with Disqus. Here’s Why BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | MONDAY, MARCH 7, 2011
- Anatomy of an Innovation-friendly School THIS IS GOING TO BE BIG. | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2012
- Replicating PostgreSQL with Bucardo GABRIEL WEINBERG | SUNDAY, MAY 15, 2011
- Why Co-working Spaces Actually Work FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2012
- How to Start a Startup WWW.PAULGRAHAM.COM | SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2010
- Saving Money in Patent Litigation: Series Overview IP LAW FOR STARTUPS | TUESDAY, MAY 4, 2010
- Preparing to Wind Down a Business: What information do you need? ASK THE VC | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2009
- Have Brand, Will License FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2012
- Old VC firms: get ready to be disrupted CHRIS DIXON | SUNDAY, MAY 2, 2010
- Hacking Innovation Education in New York THIS IS GOING TO BE BIG. | TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 2010
- Innovative Technology and Design Prototypes from Israel’s miLAB VC CAFE | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 2011
- Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder WWW.METAMORPHBLOG.COM | SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2010
- SOPA Would Hurt Start-ups, Not Pirates FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2011
- Launching Tech Ventures: Creating Your Online Persona, Part II. LAUNCHING TECH VENTURES | SUNDAY, MAY 1, 2011
- 11 Trends in Web Logo Design MASHABLE.COM | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2010
- uControl and iControl to Merge AUSTIN STARTUP | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2010
- Startup Blog: Intellectual Property (IP) and Know-how: Defined TAFFY WILLIAMS | MONDAY, MARCH 21, 2011
- The Lean LaunchPad – Teaching Entrepreneurship as a Management Science STEVE BLANK | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2010
- The Best Entrepreneurs Are Hyper Competitive & Hate Losing BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 2010
- Five reasons why SOPA is luddite legislation FRED DESTIN | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2011
- If NYC is going to be a real innovation hub, we can't have our own senators supporting SOPA/PIPA THIS IS GOING TO BE BIG. | MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 2012
- Market By Numbers MARKET BY NUMBERS | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 2009
- Why the Browser Matters BEN'S BLOG | TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 2011
- Why You Should Embrace Opposing Views at Your Startup BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2011
- Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My. STEVE BLANK | MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2009
- A Compilation of the Web's Best Advice for Entrepreneurs PLATFORMS AND NETWORKS | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2009
- Benchmarking Cassandra Scalability on AWS - Over a million writes per second TECHBLOG.NETFLIX.COM | SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2011
- One More Time: No NDAs DASHES.COM | SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
- Gadget Review: The Amazon Kindle Fire FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2011
- The cardinal sin of community management STARTUP LESSONS LEARNED | FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2009
- Invest in Israel Newsletter October 2010 Edition VC CAFE | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2010
- 10 Tips for Making your Startup More Attractive for Investors [Presentation] VC CAFE | SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2010
- Expenses You Don't Think of When Starting a Business SOFTWARE BY ROB | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 2009
- How to Flip Your Startup in 5 Steps READWRITESTART | SUNDAY, MARCH 27, 2011
- A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | THURSDAY, MAY 5, 2011
- How to Win a Trademark Battle Against a Goliath FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2011
- The Long-Term Value of Loyalty BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 2010
- The Inside Story of a Small Startup Acquisition (Part 3) SOFTWARE BY ROB | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2012
- Kernel Debugging 101 CODE AS CRAFT | FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 2012
- CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers BLOG.EXPENSIFY.COM | TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 2012
- Localizing Logically for a Global Marketplace CODE AS CRAFT | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2011
- What's Hot In Denmark? Startup Weekend Copenhagen! ARCTICSTARTUP | THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 2011
- Eric Sink. Things I learned in selling Teamprise to Microsoft. Video & transcript. BUSINESS OF SOFTWARE BLOG | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2011
- Blog Updates: February 2010 TYLERCRUZ.COM: AN INTERNET ENTREPRENEUR'S JOURNEY | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2010
- What can Cloud do for you? ACTIVE GARAGE | MONDAY, JUNE 28, 2010
- Multilingual User Generated Content and SEO CODE AS CRAFT | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2011
- Update On the AppCampus Initiative With Will Cardwell ARCTICSTARTUP | TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 2012
- This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.) BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | SATURDAY, JULY 10, 2010
- Stealth Mode Startup WWW.FROZENNORTH.ORG | FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2011
- There is always new technology. When should we care? How do we take advantage of it? Dan Bricklin video & transcript at Business of Software 2010. BUSINESS OF SOFTWARE BLOG | MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 2011
- Problems (For the Most Part) Resolved with wordpress and dreamhost SOFTWARE BY ROB | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2008
- Piercing the Corporate Veil of Sweat Equity GRASSHOPPERHERDER.COM | SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2011
- Will the real standard terms please stand up? GABRIEL WEINBERG | MONDAY, MAY 3, 2010
- Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion NEWS.YCOMBINATOR.COM | FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2011
- "When in doubt, look different". Geoffrey Moore at Business of Software. Video & transcript. BUSINESS OF SOFTWARE BLOG | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2011
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