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Start-up Tips: Identifying Intellectual Property, Simplified

YoungUpstarts

I’ve attended many IP seminars and conferences conducted specifically for businesses and they are generally always about Patents. I have quite often heard people at the aforementioned seminars ask “How do I patent my company name?”. Copyrights vest in literary, musical, dramatic and artistic work. Copyrights.

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The 5 Biggest Legal Mistakes That Startups Make

Scott Edward Walker

Mistake #2 : not buttoning-down IP ownership issues (at 10:20). Mistake #3 : not setting-up vesting schedules (at 17:19). Mistake #2: Not Buttoning-Down IP Ownership Issues. Zuckerberg” problem – IP is not assigned to the company by the founders and/or third-party developers (including in foreign countries).

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The 5 Biggest Legal Mistakes That Startups Make

Scott Edward Walker

i) Rule 506 preempts State law, which means all you have to do is file a Form D and pay a filing fee; and (ii) no disclosure requirement/PPM Possible to sell to “friends and family” (e.g., issues to address include: How have they treated their other portfolio companies?