intellectual property

Google’s Gradient backs Patlytics to help companies protect their intellectual property

Patlytics, an AI-powered patent analytics platform, wants to help enterprises, IP professionals and law firms speed up their patent workflows, from discovery, analytics, comparisons and prosecution t

Use intellectual property to secure debt and equity-based funding

Keegan Caldwell Contributor Share on X Keegan Caldwell is the global managing partner and founder at Caldwell, a premier law firm specializing in high-growth technology and life sciences companies. C

From concept to patent: 4 key steps for AI entrepreneurs

To maximize your chances of getting the patent filing process right, here are four tips that will help protect your work so you can capitalize on it.

Derivative works are generative AI’s poison pill

When a software program generates output data based on input data, which output data is a derivative of the input data? All? Some? None?

Beat the clock: 6 smart ways startups can use lawyers effectively

As a founder, you can get the most out of legal help by deploying a few smart strategies that won’t break the bank or blow your budget.

IP for startups: It starts with strategy

If your IP is stopping a big company from doing what it wants, that could, in itself, be a good enough reason for acquiring you.

Generative AI and copyright law: What’s the future for IP?

AI-generated content presents a second concern: What if AI bots infringe on third parties’ intellectual property rights?

Aventurine wants to help would-be entrepreneurs with its IP-first investment thesis

While it would be ideal if the startup made it, the financial returns, perhaps lasting decades, come through the IP operation.

IPRally, a patent search engine powered by explainable AI, raises $10.8M

IPRally, a Finnish startup building a knowledge graph-based patent search engine, has raised €10 million ($10.8 million) in a Series A round of funding. Founded in 2018, IPRally is one of a number o

Copy that: RightHub wants to be the command center for intellectual property management

An entrepreneur might have the best idea since sliced bread, but if they’re unable to protect it with the relevant patents, trademarks or copyrights, there’s a good chance they won’t

Failures are valuable IP: Protect your startup’s negative trade secrets

Negative trade secrets are intended to protect a company’s secret know-how gained from extensive research and investment about what does not work.

TechCrunch+ roundup: Space tech predictions, startup IP strategy, finding feasible funding

Do you have IP counsel? Does your app have a UX protection strategy? Have you ever conducted an audit?

Cost-effective IP strategies can lead to massive exit valuations

Overreliance on conventional wisdom allows valuation destroying time bombs to hide within successful businesses, only to detonate during a liquidity event.

Digip digitizes the process of applying for trademarks

For businesses, protecting trademarks is often a lengthy and expensive process, especially if they have multiple brands. Digip digitizes much of the process, helping its customers file trademarks by t

All my apes gone: Legal disputes at the intersection of IP and NFTs

NFTs are no different than old-school physical assets in one important way: They’re governed by a legal framework which, in many respects, is rooted in the 20th century.

LOT, the anti-patent-troll group, launches Adapt to tackle inclusion in the world of IP

Patent trolling, critics say, is guided by one principle alone: money. Yet tackling it remains a complex task with many angles. Today, a consortium called LOT — set up to help improve how the te

An AI for art: Copyright considerations for artificial intelligence

How should AI be considered in the context of copyright protection and authorship under U.K. law as it presently stands?

Commercial image-generating AI raises all sorts of thorny legal issues

This week, OpenAI granted users of its image-generating AI system, DALL-E 2, the right to use their generations for commercial projects, like illustrations for children’s books and art for newslette

IP and cybersecurity disputes are top legal concerns for tech companies

No industry is a stranger to litigation, but for the tech sector, it appears IP and patent disputes, followed by cybersecurity and data protection issues keep tech company leaders up at night.

Google’s loss to Sonos settles it: Big Tech has an IP piracy problem

Simply put, Big Tech benefits from stealing IP. The legal costs and potential damages, if ever issued after years of litigation, are paltry by comparison.
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