INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ISSUES IN STARTING HIGH-TECH VENTURES
Intellectual property rights (IPRs) and IPR protection are important issues in starting high-tech ventures. This paper analyzes potential IPR risks for high-tech start-ups and discusses how to prevent them. For a venture capitalist, the main issue is to confirm the value of target technology and its ownership. On the other hand, a technology holder is mainly concerned for the approach to cooperation and the proportion of technology investment in registered capital of the start-up. As far as a target technology is concerned, if it has been patented, the start-up should be prepared for different kinds of challenges to patent right, for example, patent invalidation application for insufficient disclosure or lack of novelty. Otherwise, if the target technology is not considered patentable, the non-patent technology or know-how can also be protected through legal system of trade secret and anti-unfair competition.
Intellectual property Venture capital High-tech venture Start-up Patent
Angela J.He Lin Qiao
Peking University Tsinghua University
国际会议
Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 2009(2009创新与创业国际学术会议)
北京
英文
71-75
2009-07-16（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）