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IP Law For Startups — Lessons on trade secret, trademark, copyright & patent law for entrepreneurs

Feb

8

2010

IP Law for Startups is a blog that gives general, educational information about intellectual property law and explains the most common pitfalls and missteps that entrepreneurs make. It gives clear, concrete ways to protect your IP and avoid legal ruin. It helps startups draw an IP landmine map and navigate the dangerous terrain. The biggest ...
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Patents and IP

ip · legal · patent · trademark

Stock for Legal Fees with a Startup Lawyer | The Startup Lawyer

Apr

29

2009

Stock for Attorney Fees? This situation arises when a startup company offers stock to a lawyer in exchange for legal services. I’ve derived the following 2 postulates to explain why startups and lawyers agree to this setup: 1. Startups are broke. 2. Lawyers are expensive. For the same reasons that your startup lawyer should not ...
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Get the Right Attorney

attorney · fees · legal

What do you need to do before you quit your job to form a startup company? : Startup Company Lawyer

Apr

28

2009

There are various things a potential founder of a new startup company needs to do before quitting their job. The article recommends:** Review all agreements with your current employer** Return confidential information to your employer** Limit pre-resignation activities** Prepare for the exit interview** Stay on good terms** Don’t forget about stock options and benefits** Consult ...
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General Primers

legal · startup

Term Sheet Generator – WSGR

Apr

24

2009

This tool will generate a venture financing term sheet based on your responses to an online questionnaire. It also has an informational component, with basic tutorials and annotations on financing terms. This term sheet generator is a modified version of a tool that we use internally, which comprises one part of a suite of document ...
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Term Sheets

legal · term sheets

7 Legal Documents for Startups | The Startup Lawyer

Nov

24

2008

When launching a startup, you want to make and keep your startup as valuable as possible. But in order to do that, your tech startup needs to ensure that (a) the intellectual property is owned by the startup, and (b) the co-founders who own the startup have proper incentives and rules to handle inevitable contingencies. ...
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Legal Stuff Primers

agreements · legal

Why a buy-sell agreement is important | The Startup Lawyer

Oct

18

2008

A buy-sell agreement is a document that preserves continuity of business ownership when specific events occur, such as death or disability of a business owner. It is a contract between shareholders or business partners concerning the future ownership of the business and can be drafted as part of the company’s shareholder agreement or as a ...
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Founder Agreements

agreements · legal · valuation

Startup Company Lawyer — Partner at WSGR

Sep

28

2008

This is the blog og Yoichiro (‘Yokum’) Taku. He is a corporate and securities partner in the Palo Alto, California office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. His WSGR web bio is here. “I represent technology and growth companies at all stages of development, through private financings, strategic transactions, public offerings, and mergers and acquisitions. ...
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Blogs

legal

A Short Introduction to the Securities Laws for Entrepreneurs

Sep

27

2008

We are now going to look at some of the rules and types of offerings a company can make. From the point of view of a company issuing stock, the most important aspects of the rule are (1) how much stock can I sell, (2) what level of disclosure do I have to make, (3) ...
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Selling Stock -- SEC Rules

legal

Get NDA and Confidentiality or Trade Secret Agreements

Sep

27

2008

(This link is provided to give some idea of the nature of an NDA. Startup entrepreneurs should also get their NDAs from their attorneys, not from free sources!)Whether you’re an inventor getting ready to pitch a licensee, an attorney in need of a reliable software beta agreement, or a business person seeking to protect your ...
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Non-Disclosure Agreements

document · legal · nda

The Non-Disclosure Agreement

Sep

27

2008

If you are or have plans to be an entrepreneur, then sooner or later you are going to have to disclose your ideas to someone if you intend to exploit them. And in so disclosing the ideas, without adequate legal protection, you run the risk of having those ideas freely taken from you and exploited ...
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Non-Disclosure Agreements

legal · nda

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