Posts Tagged: start-up
Copyrights: Intellectual Property Considerations for Start-Ups
Copyrights protect original works of authorship. This gives a copyright holder exclusive rights to modify, distribute, perform, display, and copy the work. However, as with other forms …
Investing in Inventing: A Patent Process Primer for Startups
The patent process is long and complex, but well worth the effort if it means protecting your invention and your new company. Key decisions made along the …
iPEL Responds to Skeptics by Expanding Free Licensing Program
What if those who own large patent portfolios decided to actually help start-ups by opening up their patent portfolios to those start-ups rather than have those companies …
Understory Earns U.S. Patents for Weather Sensing Technology
Understory’s first patent covers the sensor device itself which consists of a stainless steel sphere sitting on top of a shaft, a configuration which one of …
Negotiating Your First Big Tech Software License
One of the critical moments in the life of a start-up tech company is landing its first big contract with a giant tech company. That first tech …
IP Due Diligence for Start-ups in the 2018 Legal Environment – The Most Important Conversation
For IP due diligence for investment in a start-up or young company, the most important conversation is with the key developer(s) of the product(s) or …
The Petri Dish Effect will keep Technology in China for Generations
Wealth in Silicon Valley created and then funded more startups, and the cycle continued. It was like a petri dish, only with a multiplication of startups instead …
A Practical Guide to Startup Funding
The solution is equity crowdfunding, which is on course to surpass venture capital as the preferred way for startups and small businesses to raise capital in the …
American Entrepreneurship Languishes as Startups Face Unfavorable Ecosystem
There can be no dispute that the level of business startup activity has been on the decline in the United States over the past few decades. So …
Why the IP system works against the small
The decision whether to secure technology using a trade secret or a patent hinges as much on the technology as it does on access to capital. Small …
A Practical Guide to Startup Funding
What if your startup is a university startup based on university developed and patented technology? The goal is not only to create a domestic corporation, but also …
Open Letter Exaggerates the Benefits of Recent Patent Reforms
HTIA’s letter argues that venture capital funding and startup activity have grown in recent years, further proof of their view that the federal government has properly …
AUTM Licensing Survey: Ominous trend likely attributable to eroding patent rights
Concerns about the ability of academic institutions to keep contributing to the U.S. innovation economy go well beyond federal funding stagnation according to the recent AUTM …
Tax Reform will Harm Inventors, High Tech Start-ups
More disturbing than the harmful effects the proposed changes would have – this signals a continuing approach toward patent rights as not being a property right, which contradicts …
The changing face of university technology transfer
Today (TTOs) are increasingly being run by professionals who are experienced in startups, licensing, monetizing and have tremendous depth of technical knowledge in a variety of fields. …
