Legal Startup Launches With Goal of Protecting Small Business
In response to the growing concerns over the America Invents Act, and lack of patent protection for solo-inventors and startup CEOs, Atlanta-based company Intellectual Property (IP) SmartUp will launch a first of its kind online patenting platform on Tuesday, June 18, 2013.
According to the new patent laws, the first inventor to file for a patent is entitled to the patent rights of the invention regardless of whether or not another inventor can prove to have conceived the invention earlier.
The website, ipsmartup.com, provides startups and inventors with an intuitive ...