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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy

Steve Blank

Early on in my career I took a “we’re moving too fast to deal with lawyers” attitude to patents and Intellectual Property (IP.) Type of IP. _. Copyright gives you the right to prevent others from copying, distributing or making derivatives of your work. Scientific principles or pure mathematical algorithms cannot be patented.

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Lessons Learned in Diagnostics

Steve Blank

Part 6: Distribution channels in Life Sciences. In fact, the “must have features” were their future predictive algorithms. It includes reimbursement, regulation, IP, validation, channel access, etc. Part 3: described what we’re going to do about it. Part 7: Revenue Streams in Life Sciences.

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Nuts & Bolts of Intellectual Property for New Startups

Gust

Having covered all the bases to ensure that your corporate name is available, the domain name can be acquired, and the name doesn’t infringe any existing trademarks (as we discussed last week ), now is a good time to look at the categories of intellectual property (IP) that are relevant to most startups. Intellectual property.

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Top Ten Reasons STRAP is Changing the Game with Advanced Tech for the Visually Impaired

Austin Startup

Obstacle type identification Obstacles are identified and communicated in real time to the user through the use of advanced and proprietary algorithms. Signals come from the LIDAR and ultrasonic sensors and the algorithms translate what the sensors ‘saw’ into an obstacle description using our new haptic language.

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How Can FinTech Industry Successfully Navigate the Complex Web of Cybersecurity

The Startup Magazine

Rate limiters govern the frequency or quantity of user or IP requests, which helps to prevent distributed denial of service attacks. On the other hand, encryption creates algorithms that convert data into code that can only be seen by the intended receiver. The United States Federal Government makes use of it.

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Approaching The Blockchain With Business

The Startup Magazine

Blockdraw wants to merge the best available technologies and still have a trustlessness, verifiability, IP protection and security as standard. They bring high performance with robust distributed accounting, however they suffer security flaws and they don’t have a built-in compliance features. A New System.

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

What would have happened if, before Netflix had become established, one of the major rental store chains or perhaps a coalition of big movie studios had realised the potential of those new distribution models and the danger to the existing happy cash generators, and consequently thrown $100,000,000 into getting their own service off the ground?

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