Intellectual property - What startups need to consider when developing an IP protection strategy

As written in the June 2014 Smart Business News, Akron/Canton
Heather M. Barnes, Chair, Intelletual Property Practice Group, Brouse McDowell, LPA
 

Entrepreneurs are often busy figuring out how to develop a product or service and may  neglect to properly protect their intellectual property (IP).

“It could be an independent inventor who has never started a business or it could be a small business that has been around a year or two, but unable to scale. Now they’re in a position to get funding and need to look at IP needs a bit closer,” says Heather M. Barnes, a partner at Brouse McDowell.

Smart Business spoke with Barnes about how and when steps should be taken to address IP protection.

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