Posted on January 22, 2010 by Shannon DeRouselle.
Category: Contracts, Financing, Intellectual Property, Venture Capital
My neighbor is a good guy. Very smart and ambitious. We discuss things. Recently, as he described his new venture to me, he mentioned that he had been using a Non-disclosure Agreement (NDA or Confidentiality Agreement) that he found on the web. I knew that it was time to add a blog entry on this [...]
Posted on January 14, 2010 by Shannon DeRouselle.
Category: Employees, Intellectual Property, Service Providers
A few months ago, the multi-billion dollar legal dispute between eBay and the founders of Skype highlighted a legal axiom that is overlooked by small companies all too often: “Own thine intellectual property.”
eBay had purchased Skype for billions but, for some unspoken business reason, did not acquire absolute rights to a core component of the [...]