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What are the intellectual property rights for startups?

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

These rights provide exclusive ownership and control over intangible assets, allowing creators to protect their innovations from unauthorised use, reproduction, or distribution. Firstly, intellectual property rights grant startups exclusive ownership over their innovative ideas and inventions.

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What is intellectual property (IP)?

Patent Trademark Blog

A helpful definition by the Uniform Trade Secrets Act (UTSA) identifies certain conditions for confidential information to be protectable: commercially valuable by being confidential; known only to a limited group of persons; and kept confidential by reasonable efforts. We’re talking about trade secrets.

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Whoa! Cannabis Company Lawsuit Lights Up the Benefits of Creative IP Protection

LexBlog IP

The Holding Company, LLC, having the appropriate abbreviation “THC,” alleges ownership of intellectual property in a “lifestyle brand” that has “gained traction with young consumers. ” Some of THC’s intellectual property include designs of the terms WHOA!

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How to Protect Software as Intellectual Property

LexBlog IP

Non-disclosure Agreements (NDAs) for Ownership. Once eligibility is determined, there are two primary forms of patent protection for software: provisional utility patent applications and non-provisional utility patents. User Interfaces may be protectable with Design Patents as well.

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What is Blockchain Technology and has it been Patented?

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

It is basically a distributed database that can achieve independent verification of the ownership chain of any or every cryptocurrency (amount) as each node stores its own copy of the blockchain. An opt-in scheme could address the confidentiality concerns of IP owners.

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What is Blockchain Technology and has it been Patented?

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

It is basically a distributed database that can achieve independent verification of the ownership chain of any or every cryptocurrency (amount) as each node stores its own copy of the blockchain. An opt-in scheme could address the confidentiality concerns of IP owners.

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What is Blockchain Technology and has it been Patented?

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

It is basically a distributed database that can achieve independent verification of the ownership chain of any or every cryptocurrency (amount) as each node stores its own copy of the blockchain. An opt-in scheme could address the confidentiality concerns of IP owners.