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Nuts & Bolts of Intellectual Property for New Startups

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So you’ve chosen a name for your startup, product, or both. Tech startups are at the other extreme. The gulf has widened with the proliferation of social Internet / user-generated content and mobile application startups. Most of our early-stage startup clients fit this description.

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The Ultimate Inventor’s Guide to Inventing Things

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If you do have competition, pay special attention to your product name, price range, materials used, what the product claims to do, packaging, and who the manufacturer is. Here’s an example of a great sell sheet for a product called Well Well Wow! Your sell sheet should include: Your product name.

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The Top 5 Intellectual Property Mistakes

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Your name or product name, branding, and customer lists are all valuable IP assets and need protection. And, if you are working with anyone on your business or idea, having work-for-hire and employment agreements will ensure the work done for the company is owned by the company. My business doesn’t have IP.