Building a Business
What Are They? Domain Names, Business Entity Names, Trademarks.
If you've been using these terms interchangeably, stop right there.
By Steve Cook
Intellectual Property | Page 3
Building a Business
How Do You Sustain Your Brand’s Value? Follow These 6 Steps.
Hint: You want your logo to be more like the bitten apple and less like the walking fingers.
Business News
A Chinese Sportswear Brand Called Uncle Martian Just Launched, and It Appears to Be Openly Ripping Off Under Armour
See if you can see any differences between the two companies' logos.
Business News
Congress Passes Legislation to Protect Firms’ Trade Secrets
The 'Defend Trade Secrets Act' protections include manufacturing processes and computer methods.
By Reuters
Thought Leaders
How This Man Made the Leap From Artist to Entrepreneur
'The entrepreneurial spirit of defining, of iterating on a vision is what artists are fundamentally all about,' says Monegraph founder Kevin McCoy.
By Jared Keller
Building a Business
Apple Hit With Huge $625M Verdict Over FaceTime, VPN Patents
The latest trial between Apple and VirnetX, which has been taking place over the last week, is a do-over of an earlier 2012 patent clash between the two parties.
Building a Business
4 Steps to Better Protect Your Ideas
Brainpower is good. Brainpower you own is far better.
By Jim Morrone
Building a Business
Get a Software Patent to Protect Yourself, But Be Prepared for a Frustrating Process
Creating innovative software and getting a patent for it do not line up very well in this day and age. Here are eight reasons why the two are such different worlds.
Business Accounting
‘Can It Be Copied?’ Why Even Celebrity ‘Sharks’ Care About IP.
Intellectual property is something to be protected if you want to attract investment.
By Vic Lin
Building a Business
The Reality of Royalties
An expert explains why investors ask for them and what that means for you and your company.
By Joe Worth
Building a Business
Digitally Sold: The Logistics of Transferring Your Online Business
Instead of handing over keys to a building, you're transferring account passwords, intellectual property and domain names.
By Mark Daoust
Building a Business
Protecting an Idea Is Easy. Selling an Idea Is Hard.
I received great advice from my patent attorney after freaking out about one of my big ideas.
By Stephen Key
Business Legal
5 Reasons Your Startup Should Add a ‘Shark’ to the Dream Team
Your startup has its your hustler, its hipster, its hacker. But, wait, isn't somebody missing here?
Thought Leaders
4 Intellectual Property Myths That You Should Avoid
Don't get tripped up in legal technicalities in the pursuit of protecting your ideas.
By Nina Zipkin
Building a Business
Low-Cost Patent Search Options for Inventors on a Budget
Inventors routinely believe they were the first to think of their great idea. They are not routinely correct.
By Kedma Ough
Building a Business
3 Things to Do After You Register a Trademark
To maximize your protection, follow this quick checklist.
By Jaia Thomas
Business Accounting
Are Standard Equity Stakes in Spinoffs Misguided?
Universities may be missing out on owning a share of their strongest spinoffs.
By Scott Shane
Building a Business
5 Preventable Disasters That Have Ruined Countless Startups
Allowing your business to succumb to one of these entirely preventable fates will lead to regret.
Building a Business
California Man Sues Uber Claiming It Stole Ridesharing Idea
The complaint accusing alleges misappropriation of trade secrets and breach of contract.
By Reuters
Building a Business
Why File Design Patents? Modern Uses of a Classic Form of Intellectual Property.
Today's smart companies -- big and small -- are using them as part of a comprehensive IP strategy.
By Eric Raciti
Marketing
When It Comes to Knockoffs, Imitation Is the Costliest Form of Flattery
Trademarks and patents are far from perfect protection but they are, literally, the least a business can do to protect itself from counterfeiters.
By Rohan Ayyar
Building a Business
Artist Claims Apple Stole His Style
The suit demands Apple and the design firm Craig & Karl immediately cease using the images in question.
By Reuters
Building a Business
9 Affordable and Effective Ways to Protect Your Entrepreneurial Vision
The idea that will make you rich likely needs to be protected long before you are rich.
Building a Business
How to Conduct a Patent Search to Make Sure Your Brilliant Invention Doesn’t Already Exist (Infographic)
A step-by-step guide on how to find out if your invention has already been patented. We're crossing our fingers it hasn't.
Building a Business
Congress Should Help Small Businesses Deter Patent Trolls
The patent trolls are the only stakeholders who benefit from vague and unclear threats to sue for patent infringement.
By Scott Shane
Business Legal
Seattle Artist Says She Lost Millions of Dollars, Sues ‘Angry Birds’ Maker
A U.S. judge approved the lawsuit, which claims that an artist was cheated out of possibly millions of dollars from the sale of the brand's pet toys she designed.
By Reuters
Building a Business
Soylent Says Won’t Sue Copycat Meal Replacement ‘Schmoylent’
The original meal replacement company says it won't take legal action, but discouraged the knockoff from trying to compete.
By Kate Taylor