A legal blog on private funds, startups, and venture capital.
A legal blog on private funds, startups, and venture capital.
Many, if not most, founders have difficulty affording to work full-time for their startup right from the start. But working a day job while moonlighting at your venture presents some particularly dicey legal issues that can cause issues down the line.…
Last December, I wrote a series of posts about what was – and remains – a hot topic in patent law: patentable subject matter under 35 U.S.C. § 101. The law on patentable subject matter often boils down to…
This post is the fourth in a series written by Nashville attorney Shane Cortesi on patent protection. As I mentioned in my previous post on patentable subject matter under 35 U.S.C. § 101, the law in this area has been…
This post is the third in a series written by Nashville attorney Shane Cortesi on patent protection. As I mentioned in my earlier article concerning the requirements for obtaining a utility patent in the U.S., in addition to being useful,…
This post is the second in a series written by Nashville attorney Shane Cortesi on patent protection. As I mentioned in my previous article where I provided an introduction to patent protection in the U.S., there are 3 types of…
