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Your AI Feature Is Live. Which Part of It Is Worth Protecting?
Your product team just shipped a new artificial-intelligence feature. Customers are using it. Internally, everyone is proud of it. And if you are like many founders I talk to,...
At What Point Does a Software Company Need Its Own General Counsel?
Your company just crossed $2 million in revenue. You have 30 employees, several enterprise contracts in negotiation, and a product roadmap that keeps adding features—some of...
What Should You Write Down Before Talking to a Patent Attorney?
You built something—a piece of software that solves a problem your team used to handle by hand, or a process that runs faster than the approach you used before. At some point,...
Straight Answers on Patents for Software Built Inside Your Company
Over the past few months, I have answered the same question in several different forms. A founder builds something internal, useful, and maybe even a little clever, but never...
What Does Outsourced In-House Counsel Actually Do Between the Big Legal Events?
Your biggest customer this year just sent over its master services agreement, due back by Friday. It is 40 pages long, written by the customer’s legal team, and structured to...
When Does Showing Your Software Put Your Patent Rights at Risk?
You’re three weeks out from a product demo at a conference. The deck is almost done. Nobody on the team has asked whether showing the software first could affect your ability to...
Who Owns Your AI Feature? Four Documents Decide
Your team spent six months fine-tuning a model on your own data. It now flags defects on the line before your best inspector catches them, or routes support tickets better than...
Founder Vesting Is Not Just About Equity, It Is About Who Keeps Building
Two co-founders start a company. One writes the code. Six months in, they have a falling out. The coding co-founder walks. Here's the problem nobody prepares for: without a...
More Answers on Protecting Software and AI Work: A Founder’s Reference
You've got a contractor building your product. You've got an AI feature that improves on something already on the market. And you've got questions nobody at your last job...









