Entrepreneurship

20 November 2024 · Articles, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Investors, IP Audit, IP Strategy, IP Value, M&A Due Diligence

Investor Ready IP Best Practices for Tech Companies.

Easy IP Audit. The Better Way What Got You Here Will Not Get You There Your business evolves, the landscape evolves, the law evolves, your strategy evolves and the economic climate changes. Is Your IP Fit For Purpose? As your business evolves so your IP needs to evolve as well. Investors assess IP protection, ownership, […]

21 October 2024 · Confidential Information, Entrepreneurship, Investors, Trade secrets

Your Sensitive Information Is Valuable Be Very Careful Who you Share it With

Most of us are guilty of signing NDAs, sharing information with investors and partners and thinking nothing else of it. Mainly this route turns out ok, with the major risk being inadvertent leaking of your information due to poorly controlled processes at the recipient. Occasionally there will be planned and deliberate leakage. The FBI is […]

12 June 2024 · Entrepreneurship, Innovation, IP Strategy, Knowledge Transfer, Tech Transfer

London Tech Week Targeted for Tech and Knowledge Transfer

Attract the best talented AI coders to come and live and work in your area, AI will then be transferred to local people and companies, helping the economy.

29 May 2024 · Articles, Entrepreneurship, Trademark

Think Ahead On Trademark Registration As Changes Are Not Free!

Think Ahead On Trademark Registration As Changes Are Not Free! WHERE WILL YOU BE IN 5 YEARSWhen registering your trademarks it is always worth spending the time thinking about where you will be within 5 years. MANAGE YOUR PARTNERSHIPS CAREFULLY‘Dry January’ was registered in 2013 for ‘educational purposes’, by a charity Alcohol Change UK. They […]

29 May 2024 · Articles, Entrepreneurship, IP Value, Knowledge, Trade secrets

‘I thought it was rude’. They were calling clients asking they join them at their new company!

This is the reality in most companies. Watch this business owner describe how ex- employees contacted his clients asking them to join them in their new venture. What else were they going to do? If the client list were defined as a #tradesecret and #contracts stipulated, they could not remove this, then there would have […]

16 May 2024 · Copyright, Entrepreneurship, Trademark

How Do I Copyright My Company Name?

The short answer is you can’t. The longer answer is you can protect your company name, brand, reputation, innovation, creativity and knowledge using intellectual property rights. You can protect your company name with trademarks. Copyright and Intellectual Property are used interchangeably but they should not be really. I am John Pryor, making IP accessible and […]