BNA’s Patent, Copyright & Trademark Journal covered Stanford Law’s 2008 E-Commerce Best Practices conference:

Counsel advising start ups need to warn about employment minefields related to intellectual property, patent and trademark attorneys said June 13.

Who owns the IP and who is an employee are top issues to get clarity on in the early stages of a company, attorneys told the Fifth Annual Stanford E-Commerce Best Practices Conference.

“IP assignment issues are absolutely key to any start-up. If you aspire to get some outside funding , if you’re going to have a liquidity event at any time, you better believe there’s going to be due diligence on the IP assignments,” said Daniel Yost, of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, Menlo Park, Calif.

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