Intellectual Property Questions

I was interviewed by a lady from Zynga and she told me that Zynga doesn't allow developers to have side projects. Is this true for companies in general, or just a minority that Zynga is a part of?...

Employees Intellectual Property

asked Jan 26 '11 at 16:35

John
716 points

A friend came to me asking to work with him around an idea he had. My role was software developer and he would create the business machinery around it. This did no went well at the beginning and we...

Intellectual Property Asset Asset Ownership Asset Ownership

asked Oct 15 '19 at 14:50

Manuel Sopena Ballesteros
1 point

I spent 4 years developing an App. Recently I started a Proprietary Limited company (I'm in Australia). Me and my wife are the only directors in the company. Before getting share holders into the...

Contract Intellectual Property

asked Aug 30 '19 at 09:26

Effort Of Deen
1 point

I am in conversations with a startup interested in my project. I have not set up the company yet, thus we both wish to collaborate, and apply for public funds to develop my prototype/MVP. The idea...

Co-Founder Equity Intellectual Property Ownership Transfer

asked Jul 2 '19 at 19:08

MMA
1 point

Hi, I understand that IPR ownership is not the same as equity ownership. In a pre-incorporated stage, do you have any hints about how to value IPR (ie. algorithm) and proportionally convert it to...

Equity Intellectual Property

asked Jul 2 '19 at 18:40

MMA
1 point

I was approached to do a re-skin of my work for 50/50. I agreed and continued to develop this new product. A third party joined and we agreed to 33.3% each. This new partner incorporated the...

Intellectual Property NDA Code

asked Apr 7 '19 at 02:44

Sierra
1 point

I have a great idea for a new product and I am thinking about launching it on Kickstarter, but I have one major problem. I am afraid that someone will steal my product and/or accuse me of stealing...

Ideas Startup Costs Patent Intellectual Property Kickstarter

asked Jan 31 '13 at 07:27

Annonomus Person
204 points

Let's say we offer an approach to better dental hygiene and we call it the change™ dental hygiene solution and we represent our change™ solution with the Greek delta (?) symbol. Hence, we might...

Intellectual Property Trademark

asked Mar 5 '13 at 06:07

C. Scott
85 points

Who owns the software I wrote that is used by my company? I'm in California. Nine years ago after having been laid off from my programming job, I started a new career. This job has nothing to do...

Intellectual Property

asked Mar 24 '15 at 22:15

Speezy
6 points

I've been pondering over this one for quite a while now, and after doing some research, nothing appeared to come up. So, my questions is, when you use a website builder like webs, weebly, or other...

Legal Website Tools Copyright Intellectual Property

asked Dec 4 '13 at 13:23

Dylan Katz
10 points

I along with 3 other people created a concept for an innovative Ecommerce platform as part of a 5 week startup pre-incubator. We had a great run and on demo day we won the audience and panel of...

Co-Founder Equity Legal Intellectual Property

asked Aug 20 '11 at 04:10

Adjoa Opoku
106 points

Is intellectual property considered a commodity? Can intellectual property be bought and/or sold like other commodity type goods?

Intellectual Property

asked May 12 '11 at 23:36

Oshirowanen
201 points

From around March 2009 to October 2009, my sister and I built a website and dubbed it our "first startup": Jumpino.com. Truthfully, it was hardly a startup: we had no capital, no way of monetizing,...

Ideas Google Intellectual Property

asked Jul 5 '11 at 05:46

David Titarenco
405 points

If I, by myself have programmed a website with a lot of contents, I want to start a c-corp to run this website. I will own majority of the shares but there will also be a marketing person and a...

Co-Founder Incorporation Intellectual Property

asked Dec 4 '13 at 07:09

User26315
6 points

If two people are working together on a project, and create things like logos, brands, etc, and then at a later point they incorporate the business, what happens to the intellectual...

Incorporation Intellectual Property

asked Nov 24 '13 at 07:09

Sherwin Flight
104 points

I got asked this question at a local venture conference recently when pitching our product. I've heard this question a handful of times and I really would like to get some honest feedback on the...

Getting Started Marketing Software Legal Intellectual Property

asked Oct 1 '13 at 12:19

George Mc Dowd
109 points

An idea came to me while I was employed. The idea is within my broader field of expertise, but completely unrelated to the projects I was doing for my employer. I started working on the idea after...

Legal Patent Employers Intellectual Property

asked Sep 13 '13 at 08:20

D. Terry
16 points

I'm an ios developer and created an app which allows the user to add different texts and reposition them. I would like to provide my users with a premium feature which is a font pack. I'm looking...

Intellectual Property

asked Sep 18 '13 at 15:24

Vondip
584 points

I was the original registrant and owner of the domain name my (former) company website. The company never "acquired" nor did I assign it to the company. The company is now threatening that I should...

Website Intellectual Property Domain

asked Aug 31 '13 at 10:41

Gupshup
52 points

I am working on an innovative product that uses a GNU GPL licensed library and per GPL needs open-source my work as well. Could that protect me from patent litigation? I am worried since my former...

Patent Intellectual Property Open Source Software Licensing

asked Sep 2 '13 at 12:52

Gupshup
52 points