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  • How does our developer's day job impact our IP?
    Patents Hi! We are a seed-stage health tech startup based in Colorado. We have a team of four developers, two of them are working only part-time and have a...
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  • How do we keep our product private so we can patent it?
    Patents We are working on a product which we want to patent. I know that if the technology gets public we won't be able to get a patent for it. However, as...
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  • What happens to my IP rights when a startup is founded to commercialize it?
    Patents If you are given, say, 10% equity in the IP of an invention, and suppose it gets patented and is the basis for a new company, do you own 10% of tha...
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  • If one founder contributes the IP, should this be reflected in his shares?
    Business formation We want to found a startup with two co-founders. The other co-founder mainly brings technology to the table. He has been working on a software prod...
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  • Using potentially patented tech in a complex hardware/app product
    Patents We are developing a new kind of monitoring device which will integrate into a smart home security system. Our product is the whole security system,...
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  • When is it a good idea to change your lawyer?
    Business strategy The law firm we have been working with so far doesn't seem to have a lot of experience in working with other startups. It also seems like they requ...
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  • Approach to take over a patent?
    Patents My colleague's contact has a patent on a simple and easy to produce health related accessory. The patent owner can't continue with their plans to ...
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  • Do we need a trademark?
    Trademark My business partner and I have a company providing services for architects and have just rebranded under a new name .Do we need to formally registe...
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  • Does partial phrase count as infringement?
    Trademark I have started a new business and now that I have customers, I am formalizing our brand name. I'll use fake words, but the real ones match the pat...
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  • Is it legal to build an app that is built on top of another company's software?
    Infringement I would like to develop an app that will allow users of a very popular social media iOS/Android app to enhance their user experience. To do so, I'm...
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