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Employment
Generally, are stock options the smart way to go, or is a new (not well off) employee better asking for straight compensation according to the rol...
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United Kingdom
Patents
If my company co-owns a patent with a university, and the university's inventor leaves, do I still need a license from them? More importantly, is ...
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United States
Business strategy
We potentially have the opportunity of joining an incubator program in the US, but I would like to know more about how that really works legally an...
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United States
Business strategy
Is it worth it to apply for patents and/or copyrights even before presenting a business plan, or is it better to simply move faster than potential ...
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United Kingdom
Patents
Why didn't Uber or Airbnb patent their process to prevent copy cats from emerging? Or did they get the patent but others found smart ways to get ar...
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United States
Patents
If a provisional patent is filed in the USA, but the full application is never filed, does the provisional patent become public knowledge?
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United States
Patents
The company acknowledges the inventor's status, but left out the name in the application due to an on-going dispute between inventor and company. I...
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Netherlands
Patents
If I have a patent which I want to bring into a newly incorporated startup as a co-founder, what is the best and simplest way to do that?
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United States
Tax
We are a group of four co-founders, all with an IT/Engineering background. Here is a probably very basic question regarding the start of our compan...
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United States
