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Be Frugal, But Never Cheap When Locking Down Your IP

InfoChachkie

An invalidated patent or one deemed to infringe the rights of another party can devastate a startup. Defensible Claims - Some companies take pride in the number of patents they own. However, there is not a direct correlation between a patent portfolio’s value and the number of patents which comprise the portfolio.

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Tapping The Power Of The Crowd For Ideas, Advice and Funding, with JumpStartFund

socalTECH

Can tapping the power of the crowd not only help you find customers and help fund your project, but also help you shape your startup idea and find funding? We offer up those ideas and patents to any user on the Internet, and they can sign up on the site to work with the entrepreneur on the idea. and NASA, as well as universities.

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Hire for your core. Partner for the rest.

Berkonomics

By definition, your core is your intellectual property foundation, the thing that makes your business most valuable to customers, investors and perhaps someday to potential buyers. Or we do so with brilliant research and development, highly trained sales forces, large advertising campaigns, or secret processes.

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Demand Media Sweetens Executive Pot

socalTECH

Among other updates the firm added to its S-1 filing, the firm reported it now has eight patents granted--up from five--for its intellectual property, and an additional sixteen pending in the United States and other jurisdictions. According to the new S-1, it has awarded grants to officers to acquire 11.7

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Boy! If I had only learned this before spending a million!

Berkonomics

Well, here is one of those, and it deals with market research first and foremost. Here’s where some intelligent market research might have saved the company and my investment. There was even talk of some phone companies using the patented system for serving communities of guests, not just from a single hotel.

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What I learned from losing a million…Market knowledge comes FIRST.

Berkonomics

Well, here is one of those, and it deals with market research first and foremost. . Let me tell you a short story at my own expense. Here’s where some intelligent market research might have saved the company and my investment. Fast forward several years to 1996… [Email readers continue here.]

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Can you finance your company with grants?

Berkonomics

The company has created a product that can be delivered as a service to medical clinicians anywhere in the world, enhancing their ability to understand their patents’ problems and needs in less time, using the expertise built into an expert system created by the best minds in many medical specialties.

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