article thumbnail

6 Guidelines For How And When To Use Non-Disclosures

Startup Professionals Musings

If you receive an email requesting details on your plan from someone you don’t know, you should respond with a CDA, as well as begin a more serious cross-check with reliable sources. The same is true for people who may approach you at networking events or industry conferences. Disclosures relative to patents. Build trust first.

article thumbnail

6 Tips For When And How To Disclose Your Startup Idea

Startup Professionals Musings

If you receive an email requesting details on your plan from someone you don’t know, you should respond with a CDA, as well as begin a more serious cross-check with reliable sources. The same is true for people who may approach you at networking events or industry conferences. Disclosures relative to patents. Build trust first.

Ideas 159
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Non-competes, gray areas, and salvaging a failed purchase

Berkonomics

Patents expire after 14 or 20 years – depending upon type – and publicly disclosed patent information is no longer subject to your original agreements after that expiration, as long as you use only the publicly disclosed information as filed within the patents themselves.). After the non-compete expires.

Patents 120
article thumbnail

Non-competes, gray areas, and salvaging a failed purchase

Berkonomics

Patents expire after 14 or 20 years – depending upon type – and publicly disclosed patent information is no longer subject to your original agreements after that expiration, as long as you use only the publicly disclosed information as filed within the patents themselves.). After the non-compete expires.

Patents 120
article thumbnail

What’s a “data room” and how do you use it?

Berkonomics

Copies of intellectual property filings such as patents, copyrights and trademarks, all owned URL addresses, and even copies of source code, may be resident in the deal room, dependent upon the type of buyer. Email readers, continue here…] But maintaining such an electronic or physical facility is time-consuming and costly.

article thumbnail

Start a deal room and keep it current.

Berkonomics

Copies of intellectual property filings such as patents, copyrights and trademarks, all owned URL addresses, and even copies of source code, may be resident in the deal room, dependent upon the type of buyer. Email readers, continue here.] The liquidity event and beyond'

article thumbnail

Non-Disclosures Can Protect Your Idea, Or Destroy It

Startup Professionals Musings

If you receive an email requesting details on your plan from someone you don’t know, you should respond with a CDA, as well as begin a more serious cross-check with reliable sources. The same is true for people who may approach you at networking events or industry conferences. Disclosures relative to patents. Build trust first.

Ideas 106