Intellectual Property Questions

We have a web service and offer APIs for customers to integrate and create other customizations. Since following ReSTful design, we found our design eventually are so much alike our competitors. If...

API Intellectual Property

asked May 5 '11 at 08:06

Steve
16 points

I've been thinking about a new idea I want to work on. After searching the USPTO, I found that there are many (hundreds) of patents around what I am wanting to work on, with a slew being very...

Patent Intellectual Property

asked Apr 16 '11 at 12:50

Kirk
227 points

I'm considering applying my site, currently early in development, to YCombinator. Do I risk having my idea stolen by going through with the application process? They're asking very specific...

Ideas Incubators Application Intellectual Property

asked Mar 31 '11 at 03:40

Edit This
88 points

I am in the process of creating a web based start-up which is about a web-portal/application. In what ways I should/ can protect my rights before divulging my business idea or related information...

Software Website Business Plan Intellectual Property

asked Apr 2 '11 at 02:34

Aklin81
125 points

Short question Would you expose your project to a tech event before having a first version publicly available? Details I'm building an app that has a set of specifications for first version,...

Intellectual Property

asked Apr 6 '11 at 17:31

Leadgy
222 points

I have recently learned how to do constraint processing and I figured out how to generate sudoku puzzles. I thought it would be interesting/fun to create an interactive website for these puzzles. I...

Legal Copyright Intellectual Property

asked Apr 8 '11 at 12:39

Jbranchaud
168 points

This question is related to one of my earlier posts about the ability to copyright sudokus. I have written a program that generates sudokus and I want to make a website with these sudokus. It seems...

Legal Copyright Intellectual Property

asked Apr 9 '11 at 01:19

Jbranchaud
168 points

After developing a unique software product for the past 5 years, I am looking to team up with a business developer that can get the right investment for going viral... The prospective business...

Partner Intellectual Property Business Intelligence

asked Mar 30 '11 at 04:08

John Sel
6 points

What is the motivation for small companies to release version 1.0 that has the most important features that define the application? Couldn't a bigger company just replicate these features over the...

Intellectual Property Web App

asked Mar 2 '11 at 05:15

Leadgy
222 points

I have a few marketing idea that I have done some research on and have not been able to find other people who have done them. Since I am not in any businesses that could use the idea I wanted to...

Marketing Copyright Intellectual Property

asked Mar 2 '11 at 06:50

Dave Long
111 points

I was reading this thread - If I'm working at a company, do they have intellectual property rights to the stuff I do in my spare time? It has some great answers to a question I felt...

Iphone Intellectual Property

asked Feb 13 '11 at 05:48

User7507
26 points

If I own DomainName.com but someone else with DomainName.info already has a site named "Domain Name," am I allowed to call my site "Domain Name" as well?

Website Intellectual Property

asked Feb 14 '11 at 19:01

Travis
26 points

For the last couple months, I have been building small HTPCs with a variety of software on them, tailored to what my customers (so far just my friends) want. There is a market there, but I'm...

Legal Intellectual Property Open Source Support

asked Jan 17 '11 at 10:41

Matt
108 points

I have a concept for an online multiplayer game which would require the user to download a lobby interface to access the online content. I am looking for advice for where to look for people who...

Employees Intellectual Property

asked Jan 21 '11 at 08:59

User6730
6 points

I had a software developer create a software program, which I copyrighted and then assigned to a software company (and LLC) that I co-founded. I plan to sell the program to the general...

Software Legal Copyright Intellectual Property

asked Jan 12 '11 at 22:15

User6492
1,747 points

hi i had a friend of mine, we worked on a idea, now my friend is not interested to work with me and he is looking for someone else.However the idea was conceived by me. Can i shake off hands and go...

Legal Intellectual Property

asked Dec 27 '10 at 21:41

Prasonscala
108 points

From my understanding of Paul Graham's Article http://paulgraham.com/msftpatent.html, IP doesn't have much affect on digital products/services. For example, youtube, tinyurl, groupon, kickstarter...

Patent Intellectual Property

asked Jan 1 '11 at 04:23

Manish Nair
8 points

I can't seem to get a straight answer when I call the USPTO

Intellectual Property Trademark

asked Dec 1 '10 at 09:59

Startupgirl
26 points

Would I have to patent my computer systems (such as desktops and laptops) in order to produce them and sell them to markets? Similar to Dell and HP would operate.

Venture Capital Legal Intellectual Property Trademark

asked Dec 1 '10 at 14:43

User5732
6 points

I am working on a start-up company to grow to become a big company to compete against some well known, popular, and in some ways powerful companies in the respective industries and markets today. I...

Venture Capital Patent Intellectual Property Trademark

asked Dec 1 '10 at 15:23

User5732
6 points