Business and Intellectual Property Law to Bring New Ideas to Life

My mission is to help companies navigate the legal issues required to bring a new idea to reality. Your team already includes expertise in technology, product design, sales, marketing, production, distribution, management. But all of these have a legal component. I bring legal expertise to your team.

I have worked in intellectual property for over 20 years, working with everything from national laboratories to individual entrepreneurs, helping to turn new ideas into businesses. I understand the dynamics of startups, and of large companies, and delight in helping put the technology, business, legal, and personal puzzle pieces together to allow a new idea to grow and the founders to succeed.

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Building Success from a New Idea

Getting Started

Your choice of legal entity to contain your business is critical. Business entity choice can affect management, ownership, personal liability, financing possibilities, and exit opportunities. I can help you take the steps at the beginning that cost-effectively prepare your business for its future.

Getting new ideas to market usually takes money. There are many ways to finance a new venture, and they all have risks and rewards. I can supply the experience and strategic planning at the beginning, to help your first financing go well and to prepare you for the future.

Preparing for Success, and Succeeding

If you have a new idea, and it's a success, then someone else is going to try to copy it. If it's a large company, their established production, marketing, sales, and financial resources can leave you in the dust. Intellectual property is a vital part of protecting the value of a new idea, and it must be considered at the earliest stages. Patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets can become the most valuable part of a company based on a new idea, but they can all be lost if the right steps are not taken early. I have helped protect hundreds of new ideas with intellectual property, and focus on getting the most cost-effective protection for each stage of a company's growth. 

At some point, a successful new idea will bring the attention of established companies. Whether it's forming a collaboration or selling outright, dealing with large company can accelerate your path to success with your new idea. Successfully navigating the dynamics of a small company/large company deal requires an understanding of how large companies make decisions, and how small companies can use their flexibility, agility, and focus to get the most value our of the deal. I have represented individual inventors and small companies in many successful deals with large companies, and can help you make the most of your advantages when dancing with the elephants.

Having legal expertise on your team is vital, especially for small companies. A small company’s biggest advantage is that it’s small - you can be more flexible, you can adapt more quickly, you can realize value in more creative ways. It’s critical that you plan your future, but you have to take the legal steps to preserve your ability to re-plan when reality won’t conform to your assumptions.