Author Archives: Jean Niehues

In the first part of our innovation series, we examined the concept of capturing, leveraging, and growing intangible assets for small and medium sized businesses. We care about innovation as it is at least eighty percent of your company’s value — more if you are a startup.

Once you know where you will fundraise, the next step is NOT campaign creation. Instead, you need to start the process of planning your campaign. Planning and executing a crowd-funding campaign takes months, not days.

In today’s global economy, inventions and products easily cross borders.  For multinational corporations with intellectual property (IP) at the very foundation of their business, keeping IP secure is essential to survival. This security requires treating the invention as a trade secret or filing patents in specific jurisdictions around the world. Obtaining patent protection in multipleContinue reading “Guest Blog: Three Reasons Your Patent Translations May Be Inaccurate – and Why It May Potentially Cost You Millions”

Myth 9: Books, records, and insurance are for big companies only

Welcome back to our series “IP 101: Your Questions Answered”. In the last edition, we covered questions about business registration and LLCs. Today we’ll focus on patents and ownership rights.

Welcome back to our series “IP 101: Your Questions Answered.” Last time we tackled questions surrounding copyrights and music. In this edition, we’ll look at some concerns entrepreneurs have concerning business formation and LLCs. 

Welcome back to “IP 101: Your Questions Answered”. Today’s edition delves into questions about music and copyrights. Rather than subject you to my put-on falsetto, which had been described as “soul-killing” and “why?”, let’s get right into the questions.

Welcome back to our series answering the questions you want answered (or perhaps the questions you didn’t think to ask.)

Law firms, legaltech companies and entrepreneurs join collaborative effort to kickstart innovation, showcase resources and share emerging technologies for the legal industry. NEW YORK  (September 21, 2015) ­­ Evolve Law, an open membership organization focused on driving technology innovation and adoption in the legal industry, today announced the launch of its new online community and website, designedContinue reading “Evolve Law Launches New Digital Community to Accelerate Adoption of Legal Technology”

This is a guest blog by Hire an Esquire COO and Evolve Law co-founder Jules Miller. “In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” –-Charles Darwin