Intellectual Property Questions

For a startup creating content for syndication, what is an effective way to establish that the content was indeed created by the startup and not those receiving it? For example, one could print...

Intellectual Property

asked Feb 20 '13 at 18:44

Jontyc
121 points

A company has the following contract. http://www.uploadimage.in/di/93QO/one.png http://www.uploadimage.in/di/N8UR/two.png Does this mean if one is working on something in their free time while...

Contract Legal Intellectual Property

asked Feb 20 '13 at 19:36

Julius
1 point

If I create an application for a client and I am employed as a contactor to the client by a contracting firm in a different capacity, who owns the copyright?

Software Contract Copyright Intellectual Property

asked Feb 21 '13 at 02:32

Victor Clough
6 points

I have a 33.33% stake in an LLC partnership, which was made with cash contributions. I have since developed software with an associate who is not part of the company that we would like to sell as...

Software LLC Partnership Intellectual Property

asked Feb 26 '13 at 08:31

Frank
16 points

We are in the very early stage of organizing and launching a new web-based business. There are two co-founders - one who is CTO and one who is CEO. In addition, we will be including a third person...

Compensation Intellectual Property Micro Startup

asked Feb 15 '13 at 02:15

User25024
6 points

My understanding is that trademarks afford protection when used as an adjective to represent goods or services, but they do not afford protection for generic usage of a trademarked term and only...

Intellectual Property Trademark

asked Feb 16 '13 at 01:24

Cesel
128 points

This is a general question for company shares: My partner and I have an equal stake in our company. We want to bring in a designer since both of us suck at UI. We have one in mind. Since we own...

Co-Founder Equity Intellectual Property Partnerships Design

asked Jan 30 '13 at 08:53

Joe
1 point

Disclaimer: I'm not seeking legal advice here, I will naturally seek actual legal advice before I make any decisions. I'd just like to know the lay of the land, if anyone can help. I'm in the...

Contract Consulting Intellectual Property

asked Jan 17 '13 at 11:47

Bluepnume
121 points

I'm planning on creating a mobile app based upon the idea of allowing users to take self-portraits and having it shared in a dynamic public gallery (for say, dating purposes, or whatnot). Let's...

Legal Intellectual Property Privacy

asked Jan 22 '13 at 02:35

Aldrich
8 points

I'm building a prototype for a web/mobile application. The goal is to collect user generated content, let user rate it while at the same time being entertained and do something interesting with it....

Software Legal Intellectual Property

asked Jan 26 '13 at 07:07

Pvoosten
106 points

Over 3 years ago the development company I was working for went into liquidation owing ~$500K. There wasn't a lot gained from the sale of the assets and as far as I am aware, the liquidators still...

Intellectual Property

asked Jan 8 '13 at 22:26

User22450
16 points

(For the impatient, the main question is at the bottom of this text.) I was reading this article and a couple of others about Scopely, a game development company responsible for the creation of...

Copyright Investors Intellectual Property

asked Dec 19 '12 at 10:15

Baptzmoffire
3 points

We are a creative studio who depend on new ideas and new IP to survive. Many of our staff (naturally) are quite creative as well, and as such don't want their best ideas taken by the studio - where...

Contract Intellectual Property Innovation

asked Dec 7 '12 at 11:34

Brook
21 points

I recently quit working with my co-founder. We had started a software business together and had agreed on a certain profit share. But shortly after the launch of the apps, we had to split because...

Co-Founder Legal Copyright Intellectual Property NDA

asked Nov 13 '12 at 23:57

Brown And Friendly
43 points

I am a software engineer who "invented", and developed alone an integrated ERP software solution over the past 2 years. I got the idea and coded much of the software as intern at small wholesale...

Software Contract Employees Copyright Intellectual Property

asked Oct 20 '12 at 06:31

P T
11 points

I was an intern in a small furniture company for over year where I had an idea to develop an integrated software solution that would help any company of the same type get organized. A verbal...

Legal Interns Employers Intellectual Property Software Licensing

asked Oct 22 '12 at 03:45

P T
11 points

I have been asked by many startups to help them with their core machine learning IP Unlike outsourced software development, machine learning is difficult to outsource or even to specify because it...

Contract Consulting Intellectual Property Legal Documents

asked Oct 12 '12 at 01:04

Charles Martin
26 points

I know it might vary depending of kind of product. I'm planning to register a very unique Intellectual Property internet service patent Let's suppose the world doesn't have search engine yet, and...

Intellectual Property

asked Oct 13 '12 at 00:36

Edwin Soho
30 points

I'm in discussions with a programmer to do contract work for my startup. He works full time programming at a Massachusetts company whose business is unrelated to mine and my project would be done...

Intellectual Property

asked Oct 14 '12 at 22:36

Kevin
11 points

I have an idea for a company and I want to share it with potential investors. I'm a bit concerned about my ability to protect the idea. Should I get them to sign an NDA? Would that scare investors...

Legal Investors Intellectual Property NDA

asked Oct 18 '12 at 05:56

Sarah Simpson
23 points