102 Articles found for subject: Legal

Online fakers are coming after everybody—but even the small and scrappy can fight back.

Content: Article | Author: Jennifer Alsever | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Intellectual Property, Legal, Operations

Companies understand that their suppliers are critical partners in lowering costs, increasing quality, and driving innovation, and leaders routinely talk about the need for strategic relationships with shared goals and risks. But when contract negotiations begin, they default to an adversarial mindset and a transactional contracting approach. They agonize over every conceivable scenario and then try to put everything in black-and-white. A variety of contractual … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: David Frydlinger, Kate Vitasek, Oliver Hart | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Best Practices, Legal

In the passionate rush it takes to get a startup to market, legal issues can often be overlooked. Here are some things to consider if you want to optimize the trajectory of your startup.

Content: Article | Author: Conner Forrest | Source: TechRepublic | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Legal

Technical standards both spur innovation and protect the innovators, but abuses in the intellectual property protection system threaten US competitiveness. Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole discuss remedies.

Content: Article | Author: Carmen Nobel | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: Legal

How companies can battle five types of counterfeiters.

Content: Article | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Legal

Entrepreneurship is widely recognized as one of the most important drivers of economic growth. But it’s also risky: The majority of new ventures fail, and many end in bankruptcy. Given that track record, when entrepreneurs consider a new international market, they regularly weigh such factors as logistics and differences in cultural attitudes and financial regulations.

But according to this paper, business owners would do well to … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Legal

It’s a good idea for small business owners to put agreements in writing. Here are three agreements that you should definitely consider getting in writing.

Content: Article | Author: Barbara Weltman | Source: OPEN Forum (American Express) | Subjects: Legal, Small Business

An entrepreneur with a term sheet for investment has a range of decisions to make. Among the most important is which points to negotiate and which points to leave alone. You cannot negotiate every point or you will (a) drive away the investor and (b) fail to concentrate your firepower on terms that do matter.

Content: Article | Author: Guy Kawasaki | Source: OPEN Forum (American Express) | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Legal

Looking for venture capital? Don’t be so quick to sign on the dotted line. Here’s what you need to know about liquidation preferences and preferred stock.

Content: Article | Author: Darren Dahl | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Legal

I know that proper use of trademarks and service marks gets confusing for many entrepreneurs. The following is a simple and handy guide on the proper use of the marks in your business. It’s important to review your website and marketing material and make sure that you are preserving potential legal protection for your marks

Content: Article | Author: Jill Hubbard Bowman | Source: IP Law for Startups | Subjects: Legal, Marketing / Sales

If you think that you and your employees may be creating valuable IP, it is well worth the effort to require good idea and invention record keeping — from the start.

Content: Article | Author: Jill Hubbard Bowman | Source: IP Law for Startups | Subject: Legal

TechCrunch gives an overview of and link to a new basic term sheet for use by investors and founders, authored by Adeo Ressi, founder of The Funded, a site where people rate venture capitalists .

Content: Article | Author: Adeo Ressi | Source: TechCrunch | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Legal

Bill Meade explains how organizations should approach reigniting intellectual property programs. Most organizations have IP programs languishing on their books. Bill specializes in turning these programs into steamroller, competitive advantages.

Content: Article | Author: Bill Meade | Source: OPEN Forum (American Express) | Subject: Legal

Failure to manage e-mail can cost millions in court. A popular framework (EDRM)and an archiving system can help get your house in order–and pay dividends in the legal realm and beyond.

Content: Article | Author: Andrew Conry-Murray | Source: InformationWeek | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Legal

There are many strategic product decisions business managers must make regarding product offerings, price and pricing structures, product characteristics and quality, research and development, and marketing, among other things. Included in these strategic considerations is how to sell one’s products. It is not uncommon for a manufacturer to choose to “tie” its consumers’ purchase of one product to a required purchase of another. For example, … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Paul Gift PhD | Source: Graziadio Business Report | Subject: Legal

This article discusses the issues for a company, and its counsel, to consider when inheriting different policies and procedures for information technology after a merger or acquisition. This article also includes a practical guide to integrating such policies and procedures and timing suggestions for completing the necessary steps. The article will also address special topics such as privacy policies, open source issues, and export compliance. … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: John C. Yates, Stephen B. Combs | Source: Morris Manning | Subjects: Legal, Mergers & Acquisitions

Thorough and comprehensive Intellectual Property (IP) due diligence requires much more than compiling a listing of the company’s IP assets. Rather, IP due diligence requires assessing the strength of the company’s IP rights in the marketplace, the strength of the competitors’ rights in the marketplace, and the effect of the IP on the base company’s products and other IP rights. [Hat Tip to themanager.org]

Content: Article | Authors: Pavan K. Agarwal, Steve Maebius | Source: Foley | Subjects: Legal, Mergers & Acquisitions

New research suggest that the best way to promote fraud detection is to extend the Federal Civic False Claim Act to corporate fraud.

Content: Article | Authors: Adair Morse, Luigi Zingales | Source: Capital Ideas | Subjects: Corporate Governance, Legal, Miscellaneous

Fred Greguras is a partner at the Silicon Valley law firm of Fenwick and West. In this interview, Guy Kawasaki asks him to answer the most common questions of newbie entrepreneurs.

Content: Article | Author: Guy Kawasaki | Source: How to Change the World | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Legal

Dave McClure blogs about how venture capitalists and associated lawyers have failed to embrace the technological advances that have helped nearly every other aspect of the business world.

Content: Article | Author: Dave McClure | Source: Master of 500 Hats | Subjects: Legal, Venture Capital