How to protect your startup Intellectual Property (IP), with Trevor Schmidt

Trevor Schmidt is guesting today to talk all about intellectual property – the different kinds of IP, mistakes he sees startups making, and the IP steps you should take when founding a company. If you have questions on patents, trademarks, trade secrets, or copyrights, Trevor has answers.

Transcript

Jason Gillikin: Hey everyone, before we get started today, I wanted to let you know that we’re going to be doing something a little bit different. I’m jason Gillikin, CEO of Earfluence which produces this show, and I’ll be interviewing your usual host for the show Trevor Schmdit, as he sits in the guest seat and gives us tips on how to protect your intellectual property. Enjoy the show.

Hello and welcome to the founder shares podcast, brought to you by Hutchison, a law firm in Raleigh North Carolina that helps founders and entrepreneurs in technology and life science companies startup, operate, get funded, and exit.

So whether you’re already an entrepreneur, want to be one someday or are just fascinated by the stories of how a business goes from idea to success or not such a success. This podcast is for you.

 

Today’s guest, well you know the voice already from the intro quote, is Trevor Schmidt, intellectual property attorney and partner at Hutchison PLLC and of course, the host of this podcast. Trevor is guesting today to talk all about intellectual property – the different kinds of IP, mistakes he sees startups making, and the IP steps you should take when founding a company. 

 

For Trevor, from all the way back in fourth grade, one day he declared to his parents that he wanted to be an attorney. In high school he got involved with mock trials and clerked at a lawyer’s office. Through undergrad and law school, he never wavered. Although he did discover another passion, and maybe a post-law career…

Trevor Schmidt: My senior year I was doing a kind of a, I don’t want to call it a thesis cause that sounds more grand than it was, but a final senior project that was tracking a variable star. So I was spending just hours and hours and hours solo in the cold Western Nebraska air, just with the telescope at two o’clock in the morning and trying to track this star and get some data on it.

 I wanted to be an astronaut and I still want to be an astronaut, but, you know, until I get the invitation for Blue Origin or Elon calls, I think attorney is going to be the job.

Jason: But until Trevor gets that call to go into space, he can be our go-to intellectual property expert on Earth. And that’s where we start today, with what exactly is IP?

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(Usually) hosted by Trevor Schmidt, Founder Shares is brought to you by Hutchison PLLC, and is edited and produced by Earfluence.

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