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Patents
If you are winding down a startup and have patent applications that may be approved post-wind down, how do you handle ownership of that IP? How is ...
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Fundraising
I have read online that the new law gives startups the opportunity to launch equity crowdfunding campaigns. However, the regulation seems very comp...
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Business strategy
Our development team is rather small and we constantly run into bottle necks because of the lack of manpower. For financial reasons, we are hesitan...
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Business formation
What are examples of good startup term sheets? Are there typical pitfalls that startup founders should be on the look-out for? I saw that YC has pu...
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Trademark
Looking to sell IP created an Collab startup, methodology, uses cases, Comprehensive white papers, Strategic ROI calculators and Software platform ...
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Patents
In light of the Alice Corp decision by the Supreme Court, what should a startup know about what kinds/structure/wording/formatting/etc of claims ar...
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Patents
A colleague and I want to start a company around what I will call Product X.
Product X has a provisional patent filed on it with my colleague as...
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Employment
As a graduate student, I worked over a period of 6 months together with a co-founder in a startup. I invested roughly 25% of my time. The co-founde...
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Patents
To avoid having a claim be construed as a Means-Plus-Function claim, is there any special language that is preferred. That is, for example, when u...
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Business formation
Can a wholly-owned Canadian subsidiary of a Delaware C-Corp qualify as a Canadian-controlled private corporation if the majority of the Delaware Co...
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