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Friday, March 13th, 2009My friend Bernie Borges rocks social media for business. As part of a book he is writing, he asked me for my thoughts on how lawyers can or should be using the net. He posted my response at http://www.findandconvert.com/attorney-2.0-brent-britton-esq/
Enjoy.
Intro to IP Law – Part IV – Trade Secrets
Monday, March 2nd, 2009More from the ideas2money lectures.
Trade Secrets
What do they protect?
Trade secret protection is afforded to confidential information that has actual or potential commercial value by virtue of its secrecy.  Source code, engineering specs, manufacturing tricks, business plans, customer lists… if it’s valuable to you because you keep it known only to yourself and not to your [...]
Intro to IP Law – Part III – Trademarks
Monday, February 23rd, 2009More 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 [...]
Intro to IP Law – Part II
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009This 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 [...]
Intro to IP Law – Part I
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009This 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.
In our capitalist economy, company owners generally expect management to seize every lawful opportunity to increase company valuation. Intellectual Property (IP) law provides many such [...]
Today’s business idea: the expired IP feed
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009I have searched and I have searched and I cannot find a service that will feed me notifications of all patents, trademarks, and copyrights as they expire each day, as a veritable heap of them surely must.
When statutory IP rights expire, their subject matter (the patented invention, for example, and the copyrighted song) is all [...]
Today’s business idea: 24-hour, pediatric house calls
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009…actually yesterday’s business idea. I thought of this like a year ago.
I sure would love it if someone could figure out how to dispatch pediatric medical care directly to my home at 2am. If you’ve raised kids, you know that the nasty bugs they get almost always wait to go mega symptomatic until some ungodly [...]
Why Florida?
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008Today’s nytimes suggests that Florida is poised to be the next hotbed of venture capital activity. The fact that I moved here not long ago is no coincidence.Â
When people think about high technology in the southeastern United States, people think of Atlanta or research triangle in Raleigh-Durham. They don’t think of Florida. But [...]
Meet the new boss…
Monday, December 1st, 2008I upgraded my employer today. I feel pretty lucky to be able to move around fluidly in the throes of this economic tumult. Lots of unemployed lawyers out there; two of my former firms no longer exist. I’m thankful to be in demand.
I wonder if the Company 2.0 model might afford a measure of stability [...]
Theoretical Physics, Quantum Computing, Entrepreneurs
Monday, November 24th, 2008I have the great good fortune to co-host the CEO Lounge, a weekly radio show and podcast on Talk Radio WGUL 860 AM here in Tampa. Our November 8 show featured some post-election euphoria from the hosts. Also a fun double-segment interview with Ed Farhi, head of the MIT department of theoretical physics, on the [...]
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