How Startup Can Lose Intellectual Property

[Pinskylaw.ca]

1. Start-up the new company while working for the old

2. Wait to search and register trademarks and domain names until launch of the company or product release

3. Ignore trademarks and concentrate solely on domain names

4. Just assume that the company owns what it pays others to create

5. To generate excitement, freely disclose the company's plans and intellectual property without a confidentiality agreement

6. Assume the founders and other key employees will stay with the company forever

7. Ignore invasions of company rights by third parties

8. Ignore cease and desist letters from others

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