I recently reached out to a few clients, friends and former colleagues — all of whom are “IP-inexperienced” — to ask them what intellectual property (IP) answers they might find helpful during their ...

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Just as important as patents, non-disclosure agreements help small business owners keep important information out of the public domain. Angela Freeman, a partner at Barnes and Thornburg, says NDAs are ...

I was meeting with a small business CEO recently who was working on expanding her business. She had read this column a couple of weeks ago and gave me this great question, "How can I make sure that my ...

The following is an excerpt from The Start-Ups & Emerging Companies Guidebook, a preliminary discussion on best practices and strategies for start-ups and emerging companies to easily leverage. As ...

This article discusses the restrictions of an NDA. "Although an NDA can and should be one piece of the protection architecture around a company’s trade secrets, it is not enough: placing information ...

My company recently got into a dispute about intellectual property. The lawyers for the other side came back and showed us that employees at our company had sent this information to partners and ...

Receiving or providing confidential or proprietary research materials, data, and information from or to a university, nonprofit organization, or for-profit entity; and Disclosing a new invention, ...

Identifying your intellectual property (IP) and developing a strategy is the first step when creating a business. Yet, many entrepreneurs delay even thinking about IP until it’s too late, because they ...

Whether small groups are offering their research to bigger firms, or big companies seek the research results of smaller ones, Germany is an excellent place for them to be, says Dr Jochen Bühling of ...