Crowdfunding sites offer a popular and valuable funding alternative for early stage startups to gain speedy access to investment. One frequently overlooked factor is intellectual property, and this can leave some startups high and dry….
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Some entrepreneurs choose to remain with their current employers while launching new businesses. While this can be a good way to test your new product and market without sacrificing your income, you need to be aware…
In our last post, Why you need to register your trademark. Today., we discussed why companies need a trademark. Today, we talk about some of the basic considerations for companies looking to register a new mark….
While companies dedicate a lot of effort and resources into developing quality products, name, brand and reputation are what grab consumers. Most consumers don’t know or understand the quality control procedures in place in Adidas…
While we at ipnexus.com are fans, the jury appears to be out on Google’s new Patent Purchase Promotion. If you are not familiar with this particular Google project, in a nutshell, Google is offering to…
Recently ranked the best G20 country for cross-border trade using the Internet on the basis of a combination of factors including a high smartphone penetration rate and Internet affordability, Australia can be an attractive market…
Smart trash made headlines a couple of years ago when Minoru Kurata, an engineer at a Japanese auto maker, won an award for his Smart Trash Can that detects the direction of the trash, moving by…
In a recent decision, the British government has dealt a blow to the IP rights of tobacco companies, requiring all cigarettes to be sold in plain packages regardless of brand. This duplicates a law and…
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) concluded a conference last month on copyrights, which addressed a number of current topics in international intellectual property rights. Some of the areas discussed included access to copyrighted works…
The United Kingdom recently announced a proposed ” Google tax ” on multinational companies like Google and Amazon, which have a large market share and generate substantial profits from intangible assets in the country. Despite…