Archive for February, 2009

Intellectual Property Audits

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

Intellectual Property Audits: How to Verify That You Own Your IP
You are living every entrepreneur’s dream…After years of sweating for equity, you are preparing to cash out. Your startup company has become an acquisition target. After several rounds of negotiations, a strategic partner offers to buy your company for a whopping $100 million. You’ll finally [...]

Intro to IP Law – Part III – Trademarks

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

More from the ideas2money lectures.

Trademarks
What do they protect?
Trademarks protect brand names, logos, taglines, and other marks that
identify the source of goods and services in the marketplace.
How you get them?
Trademark rights begin to accrue just by using the mark in commerce, but
only in the geographic places where the mark is meaningully used.  Federal
trademark registration at the [...]

The Law can be anti-social

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

This week I guest blogged at Bay Area Business Magazine. (Tampa, not SF).
http://www.babm.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=8

Intro to IP Law – Part II

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

This multi-part series is adapoted from the ideas2money lecture I have been giving for several years, and will in theory serve as the basis of a forthcoming book on the subject.
A bit about basic terminology.  Intellectual Property (IP) refers to two, and possibly three, things.  In the study of programming languages, we would say the [...]