Start ups: Advice on Patents, Trademarks and Trade Secrets

First, read Inside Entrepreneurship: Take steps to protect patent filings.

Second, read Trademark Tips for Your Business.

Then read Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights, Trade Secrets Protect Your Invention!. Which has this very good paragraph:

It is essential that entrepreneur s protect their inventions. This is a form of insurance. To attempt to market an invention without covering the work with the shield of patent, trademark, copyright or trade secret protection indicates a frivolous approach that will not succeed. Investors, licensees, and investors demand the protection that these intellectual property products afford. Even if the entrepreneur is going to self-market the invention, protection is essential in order to fend off competition.

Lastly, read Trade Secrets and Non-Compete Agreements.

Have you run a mental inventory of your business' trade secrets or patents or trademarks or copyrights? Or do you still have questions?

If you have run the inventory and know that there are problems, then get on the telephone and call your lawyer. That is, unless you think that your bank account can afford you being wrong.

On the other hand, if you do have more questions I suggest my other articles on trade secrets. You can reach them by clicking on the link below that says "Trade Secrets".

I should point out that while I handle intellectual property matters concerning trade secrets and trademarks and copyrights, I cannot handle patent cases.