Super angel investor Ron Conway said, “I think it’s important for the founder to say to themselves in the beginning, at what point does my ownership start to demotivate me?” Spotify struck new agreements with investors that force them to issue more shares the longer they waits to go public,…
“An entrepreneur,” LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman once said, “is someone who will jump off a cliff and assemble an airplane on the way down.” As a startup owner, you must embrace your inner MacGuyver. You need to do what you can with what you have to get to where you…
We’ve all heard the grim statistics on how many startups fail. Forbes says 90% will fail; Harvard says it’s 75%. Even if you reject those bleak numbers and buy into Inc.’s comparatively chirpy estimate–that only 50% of young firms will fail–it would be understandable if you believe that startups are well, doomed. It isn’t until you ask why startups fail, that a different story emerges …
The Internet would look very different today without the DMCA – a law passed by Congress in 1998, when the Internet was only 7 years old. Without the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), YouTube, Facebook and Instagram and other similar sites would have most likely been sued out of existence….
We are often asked by our startup clients when is the right time to trademark a business name. The short answer is that you should file for trademark protection as soon as possible. The only caveat is that your trademark should be filed only after your business entity has been…
Dropbox scored an early win in a trademark suit that opposed the cloud storage giant to Thru. Now, Dropbox asked for an award of $1.95M in attorneys’ fees.
The FCC is rolling back a set of privacy rules that would have required ISP to obtain informed consent from their customers to share their information with third parties.
An Amazon seller who was selling counterfeit Apple chargers was sued by Apple. Amazon is ramping up its Brand Gating anti-counterfeiting efforts.
As the final version of the New York BitLicense will roll out within the next 2 weeks, bitcoin startups are gearing up to enter the U.S. market.
Copyright vs trademark, are sometimes mistakenly used interchangeably. However, each body of law is distinct, has a different purpose and protects vastly different kinds of IP assets. A Trademark Protects Mainly Brand Names, Product Names and Service Names The purpose of a trademark is to protect a word, phrase, slogan…
We are often asked by our startup clients when is the right time to trademark a business name. The short answer is that you should file for trademark protection as soon as possible. The only caveat is that your trademark should be filed only after your business entity has been…
Dropbox scored an early win in a trademark suit that opposed the cloud storage giant to Thru. Now, Dropbox asked for an award of $1.95M in attorneys’ fees.
Patrón sued its former ad agency for false advertising, trademark infringement and Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) violation.
The FTC recommends locating disclosures early on in the purchasing process, to allow consumers to make meaningful purchasing decisions.
Publishers can effectively dispel enough confusion without giving up on their native ads revenue streams.
Steven Buchwald is the Managing Partner of Buchwald & Associates, a New York law firm advising US and foreign startups on Corporate, IP and Immigration law.
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