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  • Legal Issues when joining an Incubator?
    Fundraising We are a young startup of three co-founders based in the U.S. We are looking into joining one of the more famous incubator programs, and we'd like ...
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  • Protecting our users ideas within our application.
    Contracts Hi everyone, In our web application users can add their ideas to a database that we make available for potential, manually verified investors to...
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  • usage of copyrighted music at startup convention?
    Copyright Hi everybody, I just noticed a company, Evolable Asia, is using Pharrel's song "happy" at TechCrunch Tokyo to attract customers. Can they just d...
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  • Patenting an invention in the U.S. that may be patented elsewhere
    Patents Is it possible to patent an invention in the United States, if someone else has patented a similar invention already in another country, but does n...
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  • Are there cloud-specific data protection issues we should take into account?
    Litigation Hello all, If we choose to host part of our online services system on an AWS instance or other cloud services, do we face special privacy/data p...
    Answers: 1 Views: 1497 Likes: 0 United States
  • IP protection of games besides copyright
    Copyright Hi there As previously mentioned, we are a game design startup based in Brisbane. I would like to know how we can protect the games we design as...
    Answers: 1 Views: 1607 Likes: 0 Australia
  • Do I need co-founders/partners?
    Business strategy Hello everyone! As before, let me quickly introduce myself: I am an IT developer based in Toronto. For some time now I have been working on a app...
    Answers: 1 Views: 1529 Likes: 1 Canada
  • licensing IP portfolio to foreign partners
    Contracts Hello everyone! Many thanks to everybody who has provided insight into previous questions! Just because it has been asked, let me start with it:...
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  • what to include into contract with co-founders
    Business formation Hello, As previously mentioned, we are in the process of founding a startup company. I would like to know about the provisions I should include ...
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  • what to avoid when choosing a name for our startup
    Trademark Dear Sir or Madam, We are in the process of founding our startup company. We would like to pick a name to use as a brand and to identify our com...
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