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Let’s assume that you’ve made the strategic decision to break into the vast government market. What you may not realize is that once you’ve done so, you will have created some new intellectual property (IP) in your company. And if you decide to set yourself up with a designated government status—small business, woman-owned, minority-owned, etc.—that can be viewed as a type of IP, too. There are a number of places on the operational level where the analogy between capturing traditional IP rights and capturing government status tracks almost perfectly. If you’ve taken the IP rights effort seriously and done it diligently, the government status endeavor will seem familiar.
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The irony for small businesses about government contracting and
intellectual property rights is that IP can help you when working with
the government but the two disciplines can feel a lot alike. The
government contracting effort that you might be thinking of starting
can be very lucrative, like IP, and requires you to learn an entirely
new set of rules, procedures, and habits in order to be effective. The
knowledge base required for a small company includes not only the FAR
(Federal Acquisition Regulations) and how they impact your specific
offering, but also how and in what form those things provide by way of
special leverage.
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Wired.com - Threat Level: The oft-lambasted Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA, has attracted the attention of US Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon), who, after learning of leaks detailing the provisions of the proposed international agreement, is demanding to be privy to more of the secret pact's contents. David Kravets reports:
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Fudzilla: The government of China's efforts to segregate Internet content into two distinct categories, OK for China and Not OK for China, has led it down the dark alley of software theft and misappropriation of American intellectual property. David Stellmack's Cybersitter comes out swinging, claims Software Piracy tells the tale of one company's struggle to get what it's got coming after discovering that its very popular website blocking software had been stolen by none other than the People's Republic of China. He writes:
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