Intellectual Property

20th February 2007
A patent is a document issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office located in Arlington, Virginia, that grants to an inventor the legally enforceable right to exclude others from making, selling, distributing or using an invention in the U.S. territory...

20th May 2006
A reputable designer should have a set of standard terms and you should check they are fair and contain some basic provisions: Check that you are getting a fixed-price fee deal unless you want to be signing an opened ended cheque; If you have a fixed...

15th March 2006
The hippie bible "Steal this book" was an anti-capitalism manifesto, widely remembered because of its creative and aggressive title plus its subvertive message. Paper books like that one were not easy to steal, because of the guards in the bookstores a...

15th May 2008
Starting a small business is no child play! The rules and regulations governing enterprises might seem quite complex and more than anything...endless! While it might be a bit frustrating, it is very important to get the rules right before contemplating a ...

25th March 2008
When companies enter into negotiations with venture capital firms, there are several issues which need to be defined and agreed upon. This article describes the key issues. Valuation. Valuation is the most prominent negotiating issues. Valuation is th...

21st May 2008
There's no 'compulsory' licensing in literature... And if there's an industry in worse shape than music, it's the publishing world. Amazon's Kindle is stillborn because it relies heavily on Amazon for content, and there are no easy paths to licensing writ...

23rd May 2008
There's no 'compulsory' licensing in literature... And if there's an industry in worse shape than music, it's the publishing world. Amazon's Kindle is stillborn because it relies heavily on Amazon for content, and there are no easy paths to licensing writ...

15th May 2008
BANGALORE, May 8, 2008--SDD Global Solutions, the leader in high-end legal services outsourcing to India, has expanded from Mysore and New York into London and Bangalore. Already the "go-to" legal provider for Fortune 100 media, entertainment and ot...

26th June 2007
As you're creating something, you may wonder what copyright infringement actually is. It's necessary, if you're creating a work -- albeit written, musical, videos, software or some other form -- that you know the definition of copyright infringement...

16th November 2006
Outsourcing requires well planned management. Managing your outsourcing venture is critical to the success of your project, but is an area that has not been given its due importance. It is not difficult to deal with the costs involved in managing the o...

15th November 2006
Once you have your product developed it's time to decide if a patent is worth the trouble. Although in theory, all good ideas should be protected by a patent. Consider the protection however as only the right to allow you to claim the technology, prod...

15th March 2007
I used the word develop, not write on purpose in the title of this article. While your Operations Manual, Ops Manual, is a crucial tool in your Internal Management tool kit, you don't really write it. Instead you collect it. You gather in one place lot...

30th December 2006
Business models have become much more customer oriented and many companies experimenting with different structures in order to discover how to meet their customer's needs at the lowest cost and for the highest profit. One of the most effective ways of ...

29th September 2006
A logo is a necessary element for a successful business marketing strategy. It may be something simple or something elaborate. There are no rules set in stone for logo design, though there are a few guidelines. A logo is there for customers to recognize a...

22nd March 2006
Copyright 2006 Jim Edwards In a recent article, I wrote about how owners of ebooks, software, CDs and other intellectual property can keep from getting ripped off through online auction sites such as eBay and Yahoo auctions. By popular request (a sl...

31st May 2006
So you want to sell ebooks and/or digital products on eBay and you want your customers to have instant access and for this to be done automatically? Up until recently automatic delivery has never been so easy! Now you can sell hundreds of digital prod...

26th May 2006
A lot of people have read Robert Kiyosaki's books (and he has a lot of them), but this is the one that started them all. I think what endears people to Rich Dad Poor Dad is the story. It seems to me that whenever a non-fiction book teaches with stories...

29th June 2006
Nine Things You Can Do Today to Make Money With The OpenSource Philosophy Tommorowby David Berube1. Start a content driven site.Slashdot, Ars Technica, and PlanetSourceCode are allgreat examples of sites that do not explicitly sellproducts or services, bu...

30th June 2006
Why Invent When You Can Reverse (Engineer That Is...)? In an age when new technology erupts into the marketplace daily, finding a niche in business has never been easier. Looking back now, you could have been the first surgeon to broadcast a complex p...

03rd August 2006
One of the first things to do when you have an idea is to write it down. Documentation is the most important step you can make to in securing future rights to your idea. The documentation needs to be in a tight bound or engineering type notebook. Thes...

06th February 2006
Surging business Virtually unheard 10 years ago, the term "outsourcing" has emerged as a phenomenon in the business of the present day world. It has become the backbone of Indian service sectors. In the last fiscal India earned $6.7 billion by providi...

02nd August 2005
Everyone at the office thought that using the company e-mail system to share jokes and funny stories was great fun. That is, until one offended employee decided to sue his employer for having helped to create a hostile work environment. Employee acces...

25th August 2005
When companies enter into negotiations with venture capital firms, there are several issues which need to be defined and agreed upon. This article describes the key issues. Valuation. Valuation is the most prominent negotiating issues. Valuation is the...

26th August 2007
Blogger is one of the many options available to bloggers who are looking for free blog software. This website located at the following web address: http://www.blogger.com offers registered users the opportunity to publish their own blog free of charge. Th...

17th November 2006
Corporate blogging is fast becoming an upcoming trend in the domain of marketing for the corporate sector. We discovered that corporate blogs are giving established corporations and obscure brands the ability to connect with their audiences on a personal ...

18th April 2008
There is only so much space on the first page of major search engines for advertising; up to around 20 results for every search to be exact. Competition for top search rankings is driving up the cost for advertisers. Where and when will alternatives emerg...