One of the key aspects of a successful start-up is the ability to leverage assets to raise capital for continued operation, growth, and expansion. Traditionally, the main assets of startups are innovations that require...more
9/30/2024
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When you run a small business, protecting your unique inventions and ideas is crucial to maintaining a competitive edge. You need tools to help fend off copycats who would love to use your own ideas to steal your sales and...more
Can we trust U.S.P.T.O. guidance on inventorship determinations for AI-assisted inventions, if that guidance runs headlong into case law precedent? Recently I started to believe the U.S.P.T.O. set a possible and unintended...more
If your business is keeping a valuable secret, you may be trying to figure out the best way to protect it. The question may turn on whether your secret is something like the secret Coke formula or a groundbreaking technology...more
5/17/2024
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As a nerdy kid, I used to read popular science magazines in the checkout line, waiting for my mom to finish buying groceries. It was the early 1980’s. I remember picking up the latest Psychology Today issue and flipping...more