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The Silicon Valley cyberspace community is currently preparing for tomorrow’s observation of SOPA Blackout Day. Organizers are requesting that participants make their websites go black for at least 12 hours tomorrow in observation of the blackout.
As I reported on the Silicon Valley Software Law Blog, Mozilla, Reddit, Word Press, Boing Boing and the [...]

The recent passage of the long-awaited Patent Reform bill was heralded by many around the country as great accomplishment; however, the bill was not without controversy, particularly in the Silicon Valley, where many who work with start-ups and tech companies expressed concern about the new legislation.
In my recent blog posting on the California [...]

Moves by Amazon, Google, and the Wall Street Journal today to modify their applications on the Apple App Store suggest that Apple is taking steps to enforce its new royalty policies on companies selling on its App Store.
In my recent posting to the Silicon Valley Software Law Blog, I report on this new move and [...]

The Prinz Law Office is pleased to announce the launch of its newest content offering: the Silicon Valley Software Law Blog.
Our latest blog will address legal issues of interest to members of Silicon Valley’s software industry.
The purpose of the new blog is to enable the firm to focus on the narrow topic of software [...]

When an enterpreneur calls me with questions about launching a new start-up, he or she is inevitably concerned about a single issue: protecting his or her ideas.
Most are a little disappointed to learn that ideas alone are not something that you can protect with an IP filing.
So, if ideas alone are not protectable, how [...]

In this day and age, it is very easy to find someone to create almost anything for you or your business at the mere click of the mouse; however, what most people forget when they make that easy hiring decision: paying for the work does not mean that you OWN what was created–it merely means [...]

I have been working with a number of start-ups in this recession tried to save money by filing their own trademarks, and ultimately ended up creating a more expensive headache for themselves because of mistakes they made in the application.
If your start-up is one of those businesses that is trying to cut corners [...]

Given my Silicon Valley location, I often receive calls from start-ups who want to “give equity” to a developer that they’ve just started working with. When I receive these calls, I inevitably have a talk with the client or prospective client urging them to consider an alternative: entering into a collaboration agreement with the [...]

I recently sat down with TheSciTechLawyer’s Clara Cottrell to discuss some of the challenges of starting a law firm and my advice for other lawyers starting firms or just trying to maintain their practices during the current recession. I wanted to share the article with readers of this blog.
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I recently sat down with IP Society’s Patrick Reilly to talk about my firm’s intellectual property licensing practice. The video interview is now posted for viewing.
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