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Battling Big Business Bullies On The IP Playground: Minimizing The Risk Of Intellectual Property Litigation

YoungUpstarts

Intellectual property (IP), which is often the heart of a startup’s business strategy, constitutes a small subset of those legal rights. Not surprisingly, the best way to avoid IP litigation is to prepare for IP litigation, and the only way to prepare is to know the rules. He earned his J.D.

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Intellectual Property for Startups in the Real World

Gust

Last month we covered the basics of intellectual property (IP) for startups, including a simple taxonomy, some common issues and related documents for entrepreneurs to use when forming a new startup. How much is it worth investing in cultivating and enforcing an IP portfolio ? Barriers to entry ?

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What Big Companies Look For When Buying Your Startup

The Startup Magazine

IP & Technology. It’s important that you know the value of your IP and position yourself for a good startup exit. If you have real IP, patents, and trademarks, your startup is going to be worth a lot more. Distribution & Customers. Sometimes they sue instead. Or push regulations. Others will buy you.

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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. As a result, their databases are a veritable hacker honeypot, with hackers able to utilize and sell the information. They are highly detrimental to FinTechs because many APIs lack rate limiters.

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Digital Technology MoshPit

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MoshPit has teams combine new technology with existing processes, products, IP, market insights, and services, in an exhaustive way. For example, Blockchain is typically thought of as a database technology, so the obvious applications are where databases are used now, like customer information, order entry, or patient medical records.

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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

Both Sides of the Table

He said that there remains a very healthy market for “data oriented&# software companies because the world is moving more toward measurability and software companies with differentiated IP often get a premium in the market. Company plans to use money to expand inventory and distribution capabilities, and build more social features.

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Why Content Personalization Is Not Web Personalization (and What to Do About It)

ConversionXL

Let’s say you’re a distributed startup team frustrated with your web meeting software. For instance, my IP address would show that I’m from a high-tech company in Boston, so they could offer me relevant case studies from other respected high-tech firms in Boston. (In There are tons of possibilities. Understand.

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