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Gust
DECEMBER 22, 2011
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.
Steve Blank
DECEMBER 10, 2009
Early on in my career I took a “we’re moving too fast to deal with lawyers” attitude to patents and Intellectual Property (IP.) At one of my entrepreneurship classes at Stanford, Dan Dorosin , of Fenwick & West LLP guest lectures about startups and Intellectual Property. Intellectual Property.
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SoCal CTO
SEPTEMBER 20, 2011
What you will convey in your conversations What protections you will place on those communications For example, you might decide that portions of your concept will be controlled more closely (a secret algorithm). Beyond that, I want lots of conversations with experts, users, customers, VCs, partners, etc. How Stealthy Should You Be?
SoCal CTO
SEPTEMBER 20, 2011
What you will convey in your conversations What protections you will place on those communications For example, you might decide that portions of your concept will be controlled more closely (a secret algorithm). Beyond that, I want lots of conversations with experts, users, customers, VCs, partners, etc. How Stealthy Should You Be?
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 19, 2015
Intellectual property is a business issue, not a technical issue. Patents can apply to innovative user interfaces, processes or a new technology algorithm. Patents are not worth the effort, since big companies will win. Business efforts should start only after the product is right.
Up and Running
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
There are a lot of patent applications for mathematical algorithms that get rejected during the patent examining phase or maybe later in court proceedings. Patentscope by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) gives anyone access to 65+ millions of patent documents. Here is a user guide for Patentscope.
K9 Ventures
APRIL 27, 2011
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