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Last call for applications. Apply for funding supports with AccelerateIP.✨ Have strategy or implementation work that will complete before March 31, 2024? Apply now. Limited funding is available. Have work that will start or end later? You can still apply, but you'll be waitlisted for our next fiscal year, starting April 1, 2024. Stream 2 - Strategy: If you are ready to start working with legal support to further develop and clarify your IP strategy, then apply now to have up to $25,000 of costs covered for working with a legal service provider. Stream 3 - Implementation: If you have a strong IP strategy in place and are ready to start executing, don't miss applying to Stream 3. Secure up to $60,000 to cover costs of working with a legal service provider. Remember: - Co-investment requirement is 25%, or 10% for startups that are majority-Indigenous owned. - Retroactive applications accepted for work completed (and unpaid) from April 1, 2023 to March 31, 2024. Apply today and take your IP strategy to the next level! 🚀 https://ow.ly/BM7350QGVUJ #AccelerateIP #IPStrategy #Innovation

🤔 Are you a European #SME interested in leveraging your #intellectualproperty (IP) assets to boost innovation and growth? This opportunity is for you! 🚨 The IP4SME project has launched an online survey to assess the current level of knowledge and awareness of intellectual property. It just take few minutes to complete and your participation is crucial to better support SMEs in building a competitive advantage based on intangible assets. 📅 Deadline: March 18th Don't miss out on this opportunity to shape the future of #IPsupport for SMEs! ➡️https://lnkd.in/d79y6GM4 💡Plus, META Group is making strides in #IPsupport through our IMPAC3T-IP project! We're working to develop a toolbox and associated training program to support licensing and empower SMEs in the IP value chain. Stay tuned for more updates on #IPrights! 😊 #IP4SME #IntellectualProperty #SMEs #Startups INSME - The International Network for Small and Medium Enterprises

𝗣𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗲𝗹𝗱 𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗽. You’ve got a great idea and you’re ready to monetize it. You're likely thinking about brand-building and marketing. But what about intellectual property (IP) protection? Every day, startups risk losing their ideas, creations, and technology to competitors. However, having patents gives you the legal right to stop others from stealing your IP. Patents can help you: - Attract investors - Increase valuation - Deter others from copying your invention - License or sell the technology - Collect royalties - Protect against patent trolls In short, patents strengthen your startup’s position. If you’re serious about protecting your startup's innovations, talk to us. We can help you take the first step to secure your IP.

Evalify: The Click-Button IP Risk Analysis Set to Become Essential for Every Investment Decision⁣ ⁣ For investors evaluating new startups, one major diligence area is often overlooked - the company's intellectual property risk profile. Assessing patent landscapes and potential infringement risks is crucial, but typically requires tens of thousands in legal fees that most investors opt to skip over.⁣ ⁣ Evalify tackles this head-on with an innovative, user-friendly solution. Their platform enables click-button simplicity in analyzing a startup's IP positioning, existing patent risks, key players in the patent space, and even suggests adjacent patent opportunities.⁣ ⁣ For us here at Nobody Studios, Evalify represents the kind of innovative, market-creating solution that resonates with our model of pushing boundaries. It fills a gaping need in the startup evaluation process in a way investors will soon wonder how they ever operated without.⁣ ⁣ Curious about this revolutionary tool? Dive into the full episode dedicated to Evalify using the link below or visit www.evalify.ai to explore further.⁣ ⁣ https://lnkd.in/guTGFu_7 ⁣ #NobodyStudios #Evalify #Innovation

Why is an Intellectual Property a Startup's Secret Sauce? 🤔💬 In the fast-paced world of tech startups, innovation is the key to survival. But how do you protect your groundbreaking ideas and ensure they remain your competitive advantage? The answer lies in Intellectual Property (IP). Here's why IP is crucial for growing tech startups: 🚀Protecting Your Innovations: IP rights grant you exclusive rights to use, license, or sell your inventions, designs, and creations. This prevents competitors from copying or exploiting your work. 🚀Building Brand Recognition: Strong IP, such as Patent, trademarks and copyrights, helps you establish a unique brand identity and build customer loyalty. 🚀Attracting Investors: Investors are more likely to back startups with a solid IP portfolio. It demonstrates that your ideas are valuable and can generate revenue. 🚀Facilitating Partnerships: IP can be a powerful tool for forming strategic alliances and licensing agreements with other companies. 🚀Enhancing Exit Value: A well-protected IP portfolio can significantly increase the value of your startup when it comes time to sell or go public. "Ideas are the currency of the 21st century, and IP is the bank vault." - Brad Smith, President of Microsoft ✨ #startup #innovation #intellectualproperty #IP #tech #businessgrowth #WorldIP #Patent #Trademarks #competitiveadvantage

🚀 New Opportunity Alert! 🌟 Offered by RevTech Labs Foundation RevTech Labs is offering a 12-week accelerator program for post-revenue startups in the #fintech and #insurtech markets, providing equity funding, mentorship, and connections to leading banking giants, with a priority for underrepresented founders. 📋 #Eligibility Criteria: Post-revenue startups in the financial and insurance technology markets with a developed minimum viable product in fintech, insurtech, or business-to-business/software-as-a-service solutions, targeting pre-seed to Series A-stage companies that have raised $300,000 to $2 million in capital, with a priority for underrepresented founders. 💡 #Benefits for Participants: Up to $120,000 funding per startup, mentorship, and access to leading banking giants like Wells Fargo and Bank of America, as well as the opportunity to attract follow-on investments through the RevTech Labs Capital fund. 📅 Application #Deadline: 2024-08-02 Application #link below ⬇️ #NewOpportunity #Startups #Growth #ApplyNow #VentureFunding #Acceleration

Thank you to Stéphane Nasser and the OpenVC team for the mention and to our Co-founder and Chief Product Officer Nick Sgobba for spotlighting the role and potential of #patents in #EarlyStage investments! We can't stress this enough! With so many patents, doing business today is like navigating a crowded space, where every move could lead to a potential conflict. Today's #investors, especially those who experienced slower patent presence and importance in their formative years and careers, must now strongly recalibrate their attention to patents. #FTO #DataDriven #DeRisk #DueDiligence Patents and #IntellectualProperty reflect the work of R&D teams across industries, representing a unique indicator of the “state of the art” in global #technology development. Our AI-powered systems use global patents as a benchmark to assess the potential, novelty, and viability of business ideas and gain insights into their competitive landscape. #EvalifyEffect This is just one of the many things our #AI system can do, and we want to remind all startup #founders and #VC investors, especially those in the early stages, that you can all get accurate, eye-opening #insights in minutes right now! #Startups #Innovation Get started today 👉 https://www.evalify.ai

As Patentigo continues to redefine the landscape of intellectual property and patent trading, we are nearing the completion of our first allocations in our Seed Funding Round. This is a pivotal moment for investors and industry leaders to be part of a transformative revolution that is not just reshaping how patents are managed and traded but is also setting new standards for innovation and investment. 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐉𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐒𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐅𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐑𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝? ➡ Exclusive Opportunity: Spaces are filling up, but there's still a chance to join this groundbreaking journey. Being part of our Seed Funding Round means you're not just investing; you're becoming a cornerstone of a movement set to revolutionize the patent industry. ➡ Strategic Advantage: Participants in this early phase gain unique benefits, including potential early returns, insights into Patentigo’s strategic developments, and direct influence in shaping the platform’s future. ➡ Power of Collaboration: At Patentigo, we believe in harnessing the power of collaboration to drive innovation. Our partners, whether tech startups, research institutions, or enterprises with extensive patent portfolios, are integral to creating a transparent, accessible, and efficient marketplace. 𝐀𝐜𝐭 𝐍𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞: The window to participate in our Seed Funding Round is closing soon. If you are a visionary eager to contribute to and benefit from the future of patent trading, now is the time to act. Join us as we continue to pioneer innovations that celebrate, protect, and monetize intellectual property.

𝗠𝗮𝘅𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗰 𝗜𝗣 𝗥𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗘𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 Building upon the theme of initial steps in a #startup from an #IP perspective in the #sinceyouasked series, we have established -  𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘱𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭 #𝘐𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴 𝘥𝘰 𝘸𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘱, 𝘪.𝘦., #𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴, #𝘤𝘰𝘱𝘺𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴, #𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 #𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘴 - 𝘞𝘩𝘰 𝘰𝘸𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮, 𝘪.𝘦., 𝘵𝘩𝘦 #𝘰𝘸𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘗 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 #𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘺 #𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 - 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘗 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯 #𝘢𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘤 #𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘦 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘥, 𝘪.𝘦., 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 #𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘦 (#𝘛𝘛𝘖) 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘢𝘺𝘴. Now, the question comes -      𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐛𝐞 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐞𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐝? The choice of where to enforce your IP rights is a strategic one, directly linked to the #commercial exploitation of your #technology and the #sector it belongs to. 𝑰𝒕'𝒔 𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒍𝒐𝒃𝒂𝒍 𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔𝒄𝒂𝒑𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒄𝒖𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒆𝒇𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒃𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒍𝒐𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒅, 𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒕 𝒎𝒂𝒚 𝒃𝒆 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔. According to a 2023 study by #EuropeanPatentOffice (#EPO) (https://lnkd.in/eYizAjB9), #Biotechnology was by far the most IP-intensive sector, with almost 50% of startups owning a patent and/or a trademark. #Science, #engineering, and #healthcare followed. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒗𝒂𝒍𝒖𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒂𝒏 𝑰𝑷 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒊𝒕𝒔 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒔𝒐 𝒊𝒏 𝒊𝒕𝒔 𝒑𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒕𝒐 𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒔𝒖𝒑𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕. The same study revealed that filing #Europeanpatent and trademark applications is associated with a higher likelihood of subsequent #VCfunding for startups. This underscores the potential financial benefits of a well-executed #IPstrategy. I cannot stress enough the role of IP strategy in a startup's success. A well-developed IP strategy can protect a startup's innovations, attract investors, and create a competitive advantage. 𝑫𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒖𝒔𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑰𝑷 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒈𝒚? 𝑫𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒄𝒕 𝒎𝒆.

For tech startups in the early stages, developing a robust patent strategy is crucial for protecting innovation and securing a competitive edge. Filing patents not only shields your core technology but also enhances your credibility with investors, partners, and customers. A key step is identifying your startup’s unique, patentable innovations early on. Startups should focus on securing protection for their most critical technologies while balancing the costs and timing of patent filings. Strategically, startups can leverage provisional patents to establish an early filing date, providing more time to refine their product before committing to a full application. Furthermore, startups should consider geographical filing strategies, seeking patent protection in markets where their technology will have the most commercial impact. Additionally, patent portfolios can be used to create licensing opportunities or defend against competitors, offering both offensive and defensive advantages. Building a strong patent portfolio early provides long-term value and helps mitigate risks as your company scales. #Startups #Patents #Innovation #IPStrategy #TechStartups #EarlyStage #IPProtection #IntellectualProperty #TechInnovation #PatentStrategy #Licensing