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Getting A Software Patent Is Valuable But Frustrating

Startup Professionals Musings

For a software startup, a patent can be the intellectual property providing the key competitive advantage, or it can be an expensive non-defensible bureaucratic nightmare -- or both. Every business is global, but patent rules differ around the world. There is no such thing as a world-wide patent.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 16 – Acquisition & Sustainment – Ellen Lord

Steve Blank

One of the ways our adversaries try to gain the advantage is by attacking our supply chain through methods like fraud, introduction of counterfeit materials, control of raw materials, cyber and intellectual property attacks, denying access to strategic materials and rare earth minerals. In most instances, this is really very positive.

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The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly Of Software Patents

Startup Professionals Musings

Software changes fast and the government moves slowly. We need a global solution. I’m a big supporter of building and protecting a portfolio of real intellectual property, and maximizing your startup’s valuation, but it shouldn’t be just a legal game. Patents only help the big guys who want no change. Marty Zwilling.

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Business Immigration With CanadaCIS: How To Start A Successful Business In Canada

YoungUpstarts

Canada also boasts of strong industries that are globally recognized for their advanced knowledge and applications of modern technology. Canada has some of the brightest minds from around the world, working at various levels and sectors of the economy to build a profitable and sustainable business environment.

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Apple And IBM Bury The Hatchet In The Collaboration Economy

YoungUpstarts

The goal is to sell more iPhones and iPads to corporate and government agencies. We developed a new technology, protected the intellectual property, and then profited on the fact that nobody could duplicate what we did. How can two companies, which have been bitter rivals actually make this work?

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

Note that the inner ring shows their global equivalents.). Intellectual property protection is great on paper and “limited” in practice. Eventually, China’s innovation-driven economy needs intellectual property rights and anti-trust laws that are enforced. web site, they create another 100,000 VPN users.

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Technology, Innovation and Great Power Competition

Steve Blank

Our economic and foreign policy officials didn’t notice the four-alarm fire as we first gutted our manufacturing infrastructure and sent it to China (profits are better when you outsource); then passively stood by as our intellectual property was being siphoned off; and had no answer to China’s web of trade deals (China’s Belt and Road).