In the Marketplace podcast, I chat with Priest Willis about how small businesses can protect business value through intellectual property protections. We talked about the famous IP strategies of Tesla and Amazon and what you as a small business can do to use your company IP to your advantage too.
Read MoreEarlier this year I had the great pleasure of being interviewed on the Arkansas World Trade Center GATEWAYS Podcast. We had a blast talking about what makes a business succeed where others fail. Doing business on the world stage is no different. The same legal secrets apply. BODACIOUS Secret No. 2: Select The Right Business Entity
Thank you Sam Cushman, Denise Thomas, and the Arkansas World Trade Center for a great conversation!
Read MoreIt may come as a surprise to many, but most ideas, concepts, and formats are not per se protectable as forms of intellectual property, which means these forms are free for the taking unless an entrepreneur takes additional steps. The steps an entrepreneur can take to protect ideas, concepts, and formats involve utilizing confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements, and/or protecting the expression of the idea through the copyright, trademark, and patent process.
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