Category: General IP Management

When your company grows past one country, your ideas start to travel too. Code gets shared. Designs get sent. Partners overseas see how things work. That is exciting. It is also dangerous if you do not protect what you are building first. This article is about how founders share ideas across borders without losing control…

If you are building a real company, you already know this truth: your edge is not your logo or your website. Your edge is how you price, how your product thinks, and who trusts you enough to buy. These are the parts that make or break a startup. They are also the parts founders worry…

Most leaks do not come from bad people. They come from fast teams trying to move forward without clear rules. A file shared too widely, a demo shown too early, a quick answer given without thinking. This is how ideas slip out. Protection does not start with lawyers or paperwork. It starts with training. Short,…

Let’s be very clear from the first line. The rules around non-competes are changing fast, and many founders still think they are protected when they are not. If you are building something valuable, something that lives in your code, your model, your data, or your process, you cannot afford confusion here. For years, non-compete agreements…

If someone takes what you built and claims it as their own, feelings do not matter. Stories do not matter. What matters is proof. This is where many founders get blindsided. They know, deep down, that their work was copied. They can see it in the code, the model behavior, the data flow, or the…

Most startups think risk lives in code, servers, or cash. It often does not. It lives in contracts you signed too fast and vendors you trusted too easily. One bad clause. One missed audit. One unclear ownership line. That is all it takes for your company to lose control of what it built. Vendor and…

Every startup is built on ideas. Not desks. Not laptops. Ideas. The code you write at midnight. The model you sketch on a napkin. The shortcut your engineer figures out that saves weeks of work. That is the real value of your company. Here is the hard truth most founders learn too late: if you…

Every founder hits this moment. You’ve built something new. It works. It feels special. Maybe it’s code, a system, a model, or a process that makes everything faster, cheaper, or smarter. And then the question shows up, usually late at night or right before a demo. Do I patent this… or do I keep it…

Most founders build fast by using open source. Most founders also assume some parts of what they build should stay secret. That is where things quietly break. Open source and trade secrets can work together. But only if you understand the rules. If you get them wrong, you do not just risk a lawsuit. You…