Investors And IP: Making Your Company Attractive

Investors And IP: Making Your Company Attractive

Investments enable companies to expand, hire new talent, build new production lines, establish fresh distribution channels, conduct more research and development and pursue other opportunities too numerous to list. There is no surprise that investors look at these...
A Practical Approach To IP Protection For Government Contractors

A Practical Approach To IP Protection For Government Contractors

A recurring concern voiced by small or emerging companies working in the government marketplace is, “How do I effectively protect my IP when I’m forced to work with large prime contractors?” A threat is perceived that a prime contractor will take or steal the IP from...
IP Law and Your Protection Strategy: Ongoing Evolution Is Essential

IP Law and Your Protection Strategy: Ongoing Evolution Is Essential

You have to know the rules to win the game, especially when the rules change… often. In 2013, the movie Captain Philips told the true story of the hijacking of the Maersk Alabama. In April 2009, the Maersk Alabama cargo ship was attacked and captured by four Somali...
Strange Bedfellows: IP Rights And Accounting In SBIR/STTR Grants

Strange Bedfellows: IP Rights And Accounting In SBIR/STTR Grants

The Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs (referred collectively hereafter as SBIR) directly target small innovative companies to participate in federally funded research and development. The SBIR program,...
Innovating In A World Averse To Change

Innovating In A World Averse To Change

Innovation and new technology are often synonymous. Scientists, tech company founders, engineers, technologists and inventors alike all innovate. Each, in their own way, is a problem solver striving to address a technical problem with a technical solution. In many...