Thinking about launching a startup or growing your company, but need to know what legal steps are necessary and important? Want to learn how to protect your intellectual property while maintaining control as your business scales, your team grows, and strategic alliances are formed with your company?
We will deep dive into the importance of entity formation, contracts such as NDAs, term of service/terms of use, and employment contracts, soft IP (copyright, trademark, trade secret, trade dress), hard IP (patents, both nonprovisional patent applications (RPAs), provisional patent applications (PPAs), and design patents), licensing, and wills, trusts, and succession plans.