You’re working 18 hours a day – or more – getting your startup business off the ground. With all the excitement and stress, it’s likely that protecting your intellectual property (IP) is not on the front burner right now. That’s a mistake. Failure to protect your IP cannot only devastate
Any company is likely to run across a scenario where someone that works there develops something. It could be a method or technique that speeds up data entry. It could be a software tool which cuts costs by 10%. There are any number of things that employees of a company
What is IP, and Why Does IP Valuation Matter? IP valuation is the process of determining the market value of “intellectual assets”. It’s important because “IP intensive industries contributed $5 trillion, or 35% of our Gross Domestic Product”, as reported in the 2012 Intellectual Property and U.S. Economy-Industries in Focus report. IP companies, also, were responsible for
