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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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I wanted to share with blog readers an interview that I recently had with Technology Transfer Tactics on the issue of whether poster presentations jeopardize a tech transfer office’s commercialization offices. While the issue does not have much application to the business world and is really very specific to intellectual property which is developed [...]

I just spent about five hours on the phone with multiple clients over the last few weeks explaining to them the ins and outs of exclusively licensing joint intellectual property, so I was pleased to see the decision of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation v. Xenon Pharmaceuticals, Appeal [...]

The Federal Trade Commission (”FTC”) just filed suit against Intel this week, on the grounds that Intel’s “anti-competitive tactics have stifled innovation and harmed consumers.”
The FTC’s press release on the suit states as follows:
“The FTC’s administrative complaint charges that Intel carried out its anti-competitive campaign using threats and rewards aimed at the world’s [...]

The Prinz Law Office is pleased to announce the launch of its new on-demand webstore at The Prinz Law Store.
To see the press release on our launch, please click here.

We continue today with our series on the new American Law Institute Principles of the Law of Software Contracts with a discussion of what software companies need to know about the Principles’ treatment of warranties.
Again, for any of you who have not read our earlier postings on this subject, the importance of the [...]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (”EFF”) has just launched a new website to track companies’ modifications to their terms and conditions: TOSback.org.
According to an explanation on the website, TOSbackup.org was launched with the intention of increasing public awareness about online terms of service, and to help the public monitor changes to the terms of service for [...]