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Give some suggestions for lay inventors to prepare a patent application
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The document provides an overview of intellectual property (IP) types and strategies for protecting ideas as business assets. It discusses timing issues and action items for various IP types, including trade secrets, copyrights, trademarks, patents, and domain names. Common IP acquisition and protection models are presented for different business sizes and industries.
Frisina, LLC helps clients create wealth through strategic intellectual property management. They guide clients through IP strategy using a combination of technical and legal expertise. Their services include intelligently planning innovation to secure patents, conducting freedom to operate analyses, pursuing offensive and defensive IP strategies, and monetizing IP assets. They represent sectors such as chemicals, biotechnology, medical devices, semiconductors, and software.
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1) The document discusses protecting intellectual property, particularly for small businesses engaged in e-commerce. It describes how IP is vital to e-commerce businesses and provides examples.
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3) The document recommends conducting an IP audit and provides examples of IP to inventory, and suggests both technical and non-technical solutions to better secure a company's IP.
GuardTime is an Estonian company founded in 2006 that provides timestamping and data integrity services based on cryptographic hash functions. It has offices in several countries and is financed by investors. GuardTime's technology can provide proof of time, origin, and integrity for electronic data such as logs, backups, and applications to verify that data has not been tampered with without requiring trust in a central authority.
This document discusses intellectual property (IP) strategy and management in the context of technology and innovation. It provides an overview of different types of IP like patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets. It discusses the importance of IP for competitive advantage and discusses strategies for offensive and defensive IP. It also provides examples of patent strategy and litigation from the mobile phone and wind turbine industries. The key aspects covered are developing an IP strategy, analyzing competitive IP landscapes, making decisions around patenting vs trade secrets, and managing an IP portfolio over time.
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This document summarizes a presentation given by Mary Juetten, founder and CEO of The PIP Vault, LLC, about intellectual property strategies for entrepreneurs. The presentation covered identifying intellectual property, protecting intellectual property through registration or as trade secrets, and using intellectual property to raise funding. It provided examples of different types of intellectual property like patents, copyrights, and trademarks. It also discussed challenges around intellectual property ownership and strategies for protecting ideas without legal advice. The presentation emphasized starting with identifying intellectual property before creating business plans or fundraising campaigns.
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1) The document provides an overview of intellectual property (IP) rights, including confidentiality agreements, patents, design rights, trademarks, copyright, and database rights.
2) It discusses strategies for claiming, protecting, and enforcing IP rights to gain competitive advantage and deter infringement.
3) Key recommendations include treating IP as a business asset, protecting IP rights, researching applicable rights, getting appropriate advice, and using IP to profit from licensing or selling rights.
It all starts with an epiphany. Every invention begins with a single “eureka moment” or some “brilliant revelation” that causes the inventor to take action.
These epiphanies become the idea seeds planted by inventors around the world. But we can only wish the process was as simple as adding water and fertilizer and waiting for the ideas to spring to life.
Inventions are not just patents to be hung on a wall. They are the starting point for a new business enterprise. So, not only does the inventor have to figure out how to create a working product or device, they also have to drive it forward, creating a business model that will enable it to survive. And that’s where we come in.
The Inventor Boot Camp will help you focus on what’s important. We will show you ways to leverage your time and resources, eliminate unnecessary work, and direct your energies towards driving your product forward. And most importantly, we will teach you what it takes to become successful.
Key Strategies to Learn
How to perform an early stage benefit/market analysis to decide in advance who your end customer will be. Once you fully understand who your customer is, only then can you begin to piece together your business model.
How to develop a profit-centric mindset, the same thinking used by most successful inventors, to maximize your odds of success.
How to decide if your invention needs to be patented. If it doesn’t, this can save you significant amounts of money.
Who you should be listening to. Advice will come from many sources, but not all of it will be good.
How to best position yourself for funding. Hear it directly from the people who have money to invest.
Frisina, LLC helps clients create wealth through strategic intellectual property management. They guide clients through IP strategy using a combination of technical and legal expertise. Their services include intelligently planning innovation to secure patents, conducting freedom to operate analyses, pursuing offensive and defensive IP strategies, and monetizing IP assets. They represent sectors such as chemicals, biotechnology, medical devices, semiconductors, and software.
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The document discusses intellectual property rights (IPR) and patent strategy for startups and entrepreneurs. It explains what can and cannot be patented, the lifecycle of a patent, and reasons why companies file patents. It provides tips on when and where to file patents, improving existing products, relevant patent laws, and integrating IPR strategy with the lean startup methodology. The overall message is that startups should consider IPR when they have ideas to protect, not only when they have funds, in order to secure freedom to operate.
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IP Licensing for Technology EntrepreneursMartin Suter
This document summarizes a presentation about IP licensing for technology entrepreneurs. It discusses how licensing can help both companies that want to commercialize their technologies and startups. The presentation covers key elements of licensing agreements such as scope, consideration, ownership of derivative works, and valuation methods. It also provides a case study of a licensing deal between a wireless startup and a large company, highlighting issues addressed around market exclusivity, ownership of new IP, and royalty rates. The overall message is that licensing can be a good strategy but also has many complex considerations to evaluate.
1) The document discusses protecting intellectual property, particularly for small businesses engaged in e-commerce. It describes how IP is vital to e-commerce businesses and provides examples.
2) It outlines the steps that snoops or competitors may take to gather a company's IP, such as finding public information, calling employees, visiting places where employees socialize, and putting together insights from multiple sources.
3) The document recommends conducting an IP audit and provides examples of IP to inventory, and suggests both technical and non-technical solutions to better secure a company's IP.
GuardTime is an Estonian company founded in 2006 that provides timestamping and data integrity services based on cryptographic hash functions. It has offices in several countries and is financed by investors. GuardTime's technology can provide proof of time, origin, and integrity for electronic data such as logs, backups, and applications to verify that data has not been tampered with without requiring trust in a central authority.
This document discusses intellectual property (IP) strategy and management in the context of technology and innovation. It provides an overview of different types of IP like patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets. It discusses the importance of IP for competitive advantage and discusses strategies for offensive and defensive IP. It also provides examples of patent strategy and litigation from the mobile phone and wind turbine industries. The key aspects covered are developing an IP strategy, analyzing competitive IP landscapes, making decisions around patenting vs trade secrets, and managing an IP portfolio over time.
This session will arm you with all the key information you need to to figure out Open Source software licensing issues, understand legal situation, etc. The aim is to present your obligations in terms of OSS licences, patent and intellectual property, before launching a project.
Next, a method developed within QualiPSo project will be presented!
Accuprosys offers Intellectual Property Law Services, Intellectual Property Rights,
Trademark Registration, Design Registration and Copyright Registration Services to Indian clients and as well as abroad clients. IP related services are at most demand because of the dire necessity to protect ones IP from infringements. If ones brand is not protected all the efforts, pains that have been put across to build the business over years will go in vain – If protected
effectively the brand might be worth of billions of dollars in the near future.
Startups commonly make mistakes with intellectual property (IP) that can be costly. Some key IP mistakes startups make include failing to patent products and innovations, not securing ownership of IP developed before incorporation, using IP from previous employers, choosing weak trademarks, and uncontrolled use of open source software in products. These mistakes can result in losing ownership of IP, costly lawsuits, delays, and reduced acquisition values. It is important for startups to seek expert IP advice to avoid costly IP issues in the future.
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This document discusses strategies for protecting intellectual property and raising funding for projects through crowdfunding platforms. It notes that intellectual property theft costs US companies $250 billion annually. It recommends identifying intellectual property, protecting it with trademarks, patents, copyrights or trade secrets, picking a crowdfunding platform, building social capital online and offline, and then creating a pitch for funding. Key steps include understanding intellectual property ownership and dates, choosing the right platform based on the funding model, and gaining expertise to create high-quality promotional materials within legal guidelines.
Intellectual Property & Startups - Microsoft VenturesAya Zook
This document discusses intellectual property and startups. It begins with an overview of the main types of intellectual property - patents, trademarks, trade secrets, and copyrights. It then discusses how IP ownership is determined, the importance of IP diligence for startups, and different structures for contributing and licensing IP to a new venture. The document provides guidance on IP warranties, indemnities, and transactions. It also summarizes the Aereo Supreme Court case which impacted the ability to retransmit television broadcasts without a license.
This document summarizes a presentation given by Mary Juetten, founder and CEO of The PIP Vault, LLC, about intellectual property strategies for entrepreneurs. The presentation covered identifying intellectual property, protecting intellectual property through registration or as trade secrets, and using intellectual property to raise funding. It provided examples of different types of intellectual property like patents, copyrights, and trademarks. It also discussed challenges around intellectual property ownership and strategies for protecting ideas without legal advice. The presentation emphasized starting with identifying intellectual property before creating business plans or fundraising campaigns.
This document discusses the importance of intellectual property (IP) for startups and provides an overview of key IP concepts. It notes that over 80% of business value comes from IP and that IP theft costs US companies $250 billion annually. However, only 20% of startups protect their IP after the first year. The document outlines what constitutes IP, including patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets. It dispels common misconceptions about IP and provides advice on developing an early-stage IP strategy, including identifying ownership, important dates, and presenting IP as part of fundraising efforts.
1) The document provides an overview of intellectual property (IP) rights, including confidentiality agreements, patents, design rights, trademarks, copyright, and database rights.
2) It discusses strategies for claiming, protecting, and enforcing IP rights to gain competitive advantage and deter infringement.
3) Key recommendations include treating IP as a business asset, protecting IP rights, researching applicable rights, getting appropriate advice, and using IP to profit from licensing or selling rights.
It all starts with an epiphany. Every invention begins with a single “eureka moment” or some “brilliant revelation” that causes the inventor to take action.
These epiphanies become the idea seeds planted by inventors around the world. But we can only wish the process was as simple as adding water and fertilizer and waiting for the ideas to spring to life.
Inventions are not just patents to be hung on a wall. They are the starting point for a new business enterprise. So, not only does the inventor have to figure out how to create a working product or device, they also have to drive it forward, creating a business model that will enable it to survive. And that’s where we come in.
The Inventor Boot Camp will help you focus on what’s important. We will show you ways to leverage your time and resources, eliminate unnecessary work, and direct your energies towards driving your product forward. And most importantly, we will teach you what it takes to become successful.
Key Strategies to Learn
How to perform an early stage benefit/market analysis to decide in advance who your end customer will be. Once you fully understand who your customer is, only then can you begin to piece together your business model.
How to develop a profit-centric mindset, the same thinking used by most successful inventors, to maximize your odds of success.
How to decide if your invention needs to be patented. If it doesn’t, this can save you significant amounts of money.
Who you should be listening to. Advice will come from many sources, but not all of it will be good.
How to best position yourself for funding. Hear it directly from the people who have money to invest.
The Traklight Journey around fundraising and intellectual property (IP). Overview of some of the AZ programs for fundraising journey and Traklight's obsession with IP education, identification and protection for all small and medium sized businesses.
This document discusses intellectual property audits. It explains that intellectual property audits are conducted to uncover a company's protectable intellectual property, as companies are often unaware of the value of their intellectual property. The document then discusses the practical aspects of conducting an intellectual property audit, including an initial meeting, inspection of documents and assets, and a post-audit report. Finally, it provides a sample intellectual property audit questionnaire to help guide the audit process.
Intellectual property (IP) is an important business asset that can be leveraged for competitive advantage and increased profits. CEOs should understand their company's IP portfolio to properly direct business strategy. An IP audit identifies a company's patents, trademarks, and other IP rights so their value can be recognized. One company found its IP-protected products had 8% higher margins on average than non-protected products, showing the financial impact of IP. Understanding IP value allows companies to maximize returns from their innovation and creativity.
This document summarizes the services of a consulting company called Intepat that specializes in intellectual property matters. Intepat offers a range of IP services including patents, trademarks, copyrights, and portfolio management. It has capabilities across many technical areas and provides customized solutions to help clients unleash business opportunities and protect their intellectual property.
Legal mistakes can doom even the best startup concepts and founding teams. This workshop prepares you with a legal road map to successfully safeguarding your product or idea. Yuri Eliezer, Founder and Patent Attorney at SmartUp, will show you how to reserve your Intellectual Property rights.
Intellectual Property Audits for Non-Tech Businessesdbolton007
An intellectual property audit involves taking an inventory of a company's known IP assets, analyzing how they are protected, searching for unknown or unprotected IP, and reviewing potential IP claims from others. It is important for non-tech companies to conduct audits to identify IP that needs protection, assess risks from other parties' IP claims, and ensure policies are sufficient. Key parts of an audit involve assessing patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets.
This document discusses intellectual property (IP) in the medtech and biotech industries. It covers why IP is important, what types of IP exist including patents, trade secrets, and trademarks. It provides tips for growing an company's IP portfolio through employment agreements, invention disclosures, and patent counsel. The document also discusses best practices for protecting IP assets, attracting investment, and conducting freedom to operate analyses.
This document discusses maximizing and protecting intellectual property. It defines intellectual property as patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets. It emphasizes the importance of intellectual property for companies and provides examples of how companies have benefited from or lost value due to their intellectual property. Finally, it discusses best practices for protecting intellectual property, such as patents, non-disclosure agreements, and employee agreements.
This document discusses maximizing and protecting intellectual property. It defines intellectual property as patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets. It emphasizes the importance of intellectual property for companies and provides examples of how intellectual property adds value. Finally, it discusses strategies for protecting intellectual property, such as patents, non-disclosure agreements, and employee contracts, as well as generating revenue from intellectual property through licensing.
SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) invest most of their resources in R&D to produce new technologies. They take higher risks than larger companies, who in contrast focus their R&D efforts on incremental innovations.
Yet, SMEs mostly fail to protect the value they create with patents. When they do, these patents have in general very poor quality and do not adequately protect their core markets. Lastly, SMEs are underserved in terms of legal representation and understandably so: outside law firms tend to find it difficult to work with SMEs, let alone getting paid for their services.
There is a mismatch between the patent value creation potential of SMEs on one hand, and what they actually produce.
The document discusses the importance of conducting an intellectual property (IP) audit. An IP audit identifies a company's IP assets, how they are used, who owns them, and how they can add value. It is important because companies and their IP are constantly changing. An audit ensures a company's IP strategy aligns with its goals and accounts for changes. A comprehensive audit considers all categories of IP as well as related processes, policies, and procedures to understand a company's complete IP situation. This information allows a company to realize the full value of its IP assets.
FDGL, John Haggis - Making Your Facebook App LegalTodd Chaffee
This document provides an overview of legal and commercial matters to consider when setting up a company and building an app or product. It discusses topics such as incorporating a company, protecting intellectual property through copyright, trademarks and patents, complying with data protection laws when handling personal user data, and other legal agreements like terms of use. The document emphasizes identifying, protecting, exploiting and enforcing intellectual property, being transparent about data collection and use in privacy policies, and seeking proper legal advice.
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Don’t risk the success of your business to ignorance. Educate yourself, and thrive!
Learn how putting your ideas and IP to work for you now will save you time and money in the long run.
The document summarizes the top 10 business and HR risks discussed in a webinar presented by Mary Juetten, founder and CEO of Traklight, and Kelly Pacatte, a senior employee relations consultant at TriNet. The webinar covered risks such as failing to establish a business entity that limits personal liability, inadequate intellectual property protection, lack of written founder agreements, improper fundraising solicitation, misclassifying employees, insufficient documentation of performance issues, incomplete job descriptions, and failure to properly handle employee leaves of absence. The presenters provided recommendations on how companies can address these common risks.
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This document discusses reasons why startups fail and provides advice for success. It notes that startups need to remove real pain for customers, have a visionary leader with passion and drive, and assemble a strong team. Additional tips include forming an advisory board, establishing a supportive company culture, properly forming the company and contracts, protecting intellectual property, planning, viewing competition positively, becoming an expert in your field, prioritizing content and relationships, maintaining skepticism, starting small before growing quickly, focusing fundraising, and having focused fun.
2. Got Intellectual Property?
Why Care…
• IP theft costs US companies $250
billion annually
• 100% of all companies have IP
• 700K new startups annually vs. 20%
protected IP after 1st year
• IP is most valuable asset and not on
your Balance Sheet
• Exclude competition; Attract
investment (incl. crowdfunding);
Leverage & license
• Avoid IP loss, infringement, or
business failure
Disclaimer: This is intended to be general information. Nothing in this presentation constitutes
legal advice. Please consult with an attorney before making any intellectual property protection
decisions.
5. Intellectual Property &
Crowdfunding
• REWARDS BASED:
Kickstarter, Indiegogo, Rocket Hub How it
works online!
• EQUITY BASED:
Not yet legal Online Business Planning
Required
6. Strategies to
1.ID IP 2.Protect IP
✔ WHY
WHO
WHAT
WHEN
WHERE
7. WHO: IP Ownership Challenges
• Multiple Inventors
• Who you are? Employee of another company
• Proper Assignment of IP Rights – personal versus
company
• Assume that Ownership automatically extends outside
the US
9. WHEN: Key Dates to Remember
• Date of Idea/Invention (First to Invent First
INVENTOR to file)
• Date of Use
• Date of Filing
• Date of Conversion
• Renewals
11. Strategies to Protect IP
• Do it Yourself:
– USPTO.gov
– Copyright.gov
• Hire a Professional:
– Attorney, Consultant, Legal Zoom, Rocket Lawyer
• Secrets:
– Notary, IP Vault, Copyright software
12. Case Studies
IP Awareness Assessm ent 2/ 26/ 13 11:42 AM
• Inventor
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IP category Trademarks
Website IP Strategies & Best Practices
Trademarks
Copyrights
Design Patents
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Q5. Do you control and manage the proper use of your trademark by other users
you have authorized?
1. Yes.
2. No.
3. Not sure.
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Trade Secrets
Software
Utility Patents
Using Technology of Others Next
Licensing Technology to Others
International IP Rights
IP Asset Tracking
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13. Be Prepared - Resources
• CfPA, CfIRA
• Crowdfundingroadmap.com
Annual Oct 14th – 16th
Convention & Bootcamp
• Crowdfundcast.com – podcast
• Getting Started with
Crowdfunding Investing for
Dummies in a Day
• Crowfunding Hatchery
• Traklight.com/IP Cloud – free
resources
14. Strategies to
1.ID IP 2.Protect IP
• Incubators & Accelerators
• Mentors
• SBDC
• SCORE
• Startup Arizona, America
• Competitions – ACA
Innovation Challenge
• Resources – TrakLight.com
- IP Cloud
15. Thank You
IDENTIFY. PROTECT. SUCCEED.
www.traklight.com
Mary Juetten
mejuetten@traklight.com
@traklight
Editor's Notes
Kaufman study – not a lot of primary research on IPIP Loss – customer list stolen, create a brand and materials but infringing, and computer code not belonging to youIt is not just legal, it is good business. Not just IP attorneys but business attorneys. TI makes more from licensing than products, 40% of US companies’ value does not appear on BS (50% in the EU)
Car – represents Patents – think how many different patents are in a car.Coke – design of the bottleWebsite copyrightTrademark – Coke – protect from Brand confusion – l bought the wrong cookies! Looked it up Fig Newtons 1914ish and Newmans 1997 – hmmmmmm.Coke is $100 billion dollar brand and only $40 billion on the balance sheet…
Example of startup – to show that actually patents least amount of the time - NAME, BRAND, BLOG, Customer or Supplier List, and then Invention or Product – has 100% IP. Patents are more rare for startups! Trade secrets – cheapest but can be easiest to lose.If you patented the wheel (which I found out recently is not the actual tire) if you did not have the right to make a tie rod Example of focus on IP patents, miss the boat on the others, some simple things like protecting Trade Secrets with employees.1 – Simply does not. Only protected in the US. And also actions within the US can impact outside - example patents – until March 2013 changes, once you file in US, you have disclosed your invention and kills ability for international patents. Also, if you publicly disclose your invention with enough detail, you have also killed your ability for international patents 2 – simple ex. copyright – when many parties are doing a project – like these slides to more complex & problematic – patents – if more than one person listed on a patent as owner – regardless of contribution – EACH owner has the right to independently exploit the patent WITHOUT consulting the other.Example of a person who goes to a university and gets one idea from a professor and puts into patent – are they required to list that person as an inventor? 3 – who is actual owner of the IP – if individual inventor or person who filed, need to have a formal written assignment to the Company to assign all the rights otherwise…. 4 – May have a patented process but if an exclusive license to use or sell has been executed, then important to disclose and to understand how/if that impacts your ability to attract investors. 5. For example if you have a contractor developing software for you and they in turn use some freeware and you are charging for the software. You pay the invoice for the contractor and you think that you own this new software. Issues – copyright infringement because free ware used and then resold; if you have not expressly outlined who owns the IP in the software in your contract, you may have not retained the rights to the software. Contractors are not same as employees.
Approach is methodical, like a checklist
Multiple inventors have the right
First INVENTOR to FILE and can Disclose and File.
Knowledge is PowerGet informed and you will save time and money.ABSOLUTELY get attorneys or consultants.
Ask Audience what IP for each Case.Maria’s restaurant example - Have the name, working on the signage and everything, do not use yet but want to save money and wait to file until in use (means offered for sale) BUT someone else files – they win – explain Common Law TM but you do not have because not offered (explain Breanna’s pool concept – know your rights). Trade secrets need to be protected – process or recipes – have employees sign off and mention trade secrets specifically – also trade secret is different every state but need to take reasonable steps to protect something of value.Inventor – Phillip with Smart Focus, the need to document in proper inventors’ notebook and file patents but WAIT you infringed on a TM, any funding presentation, competition (crowdfunding will end up with a huge issue because Enabling Public Disclosure – all 3 are needed. Make sure all inventors’ listed – remember that if listed do NOT have to consult with you. Example from PGCC where the first guy said he did not have IP protection and was there seeking help and the second guy left an important piece at home.Website – copyright every 3 months for blog, careful re copyright taking others’ photos – just because no C does not mean that not still copyright issue. Also if you have videos done, make sure you have the copyright.Software created by outsiders – if they violate copyright and put into your code, can be a problem if not shown (open source read the T&Cs regardless). Need to have all IP assigned. Have business attorney check documents.DO NOT FORGET ABOUT managing IP – need to look for dates, renewals, maintenance fees etc.