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Fundraising
When presenting to Angels and VCs, how should we include IP protection into the "use of funds". Patents and Trademarks can be pretty costly, I gues...
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Patents
I have what I think is an original point system on my website. Its a way of rating posts. Can I patent the system?
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Business strategy
What are the criteria that we should think about when deciding on this? All startups need legal advice in the beginning, but an in-house lawyer wou...
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Trademark
As a promotion for our startup we would like to give away gift cards for a large national chain as a prize. Can we legally use that company's logo ...
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Litigation
I just read that the EU Court of justice has thrown out the EU-USA Safe Harbor agreement. What are the implications for IT startups on both sides o...
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Employment
Would a startup employee hired soon after a funding round normally receive a larger compensation package than a similar employee hired several mont...
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Copyright
I want to get a logo created from a freelance designer. At this moment he is not aware of the actual client/website for which he has to create th...
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Patents
If an applicant intentionally abandons a patent application, or fails to pay maintenance fees on a granted patent, is there anything else left for ...
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Patents
VCs seem to be very cautious about investing in hardware startups, even with promising products their question is always the same: 'How do you prev...
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Business formation
Lets say we decided on 10M shares with par value of 0.0001. Further, there is only 1 shareholder at start. Is an EIN required for purchase of the...
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