Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review Volume 22 | Issue 1 Article 1 Volume 22-1 Board of Editors Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/iplr Repository Citation Volume 22-1 Board of Editors, 22 Marq. Intellectual Property L. Rev. (2018). Available at: https://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/iplr/vol22/iss1/1 This Prefatory Matter is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at Marquette Law Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review by an authorized editor of Marquette Law Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 40672-mqi_22-1 Sheet No. 1 Side A 05/20/2019 14:43:36 %"# "# &"$! !! &"$ !! &"$ $&% &"$ $&% &"$ " !&% &"$ %%%&!&" !&% &"$ '%!%% &"$ %%%&!&!! &"$ !#$ 40672-mqi_22-1 Sheet No. 1 Side A 05/20/2019 14:43:36 & %('$"#$ #&!%&" ! "%#$!*%%"& !&$! "!&+ $% "&)"",%'& '&*!*!! $& %&$ ( !%"!&$! 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C M Y K 40672-mqi_22-1 Sheet No. 3 Side B 05/20/2019 14:43:36 40672-mqi_22-1 Sheet No. 3 Side B 05/20/2019 14:43:36 C M Y K 40672-mqi_22-1 Sheet No. 4 Side A 05/20/2019 14:43:36 5. HAMMONS.FINAL (DO NOT DELETE) 9/13/2018 11:46 AM INNOVATION IN WISCONSIN: KICK-STARTING INNOVATION ARTICLES INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ISSUES FOR STARTUPS PARTICIPATING IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP SUPPORT PROGRAMS IN WISCONSIN NATHANIEL S. HAMMONS* INTRODUCTION ..............................................................................................................4 I. ENTREPRENEURSHIP SUPPORT PROGRAM IN WISCONSIN .......................... 8 A. Accelerators ..................................................... .........................8 B. Incubators and Co-Working Spaces ............... .........................11 C. Hackathons ..................................................... .........................13 D. Business Contests ........................................... .........................14 E. Startup Social Groups ..................................... .........................15 F. Startup Service Organizations ........................ .........................15 II. OVERVIEW OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY .................................................. 16 40672-mqi_22-1 Sheet No. 4 Side A 05/20/2019 14:43:36 A. Copyright ....................................................... .........................17 1. Overview of Copyright ..................................................... 17 2. Copyright Ownership and Transfer .................................. 18 3. Copyright Risks for Startups Participating in Support Programs ........................................................................ 19 4. Startup Practices for Copyright Protection ....................... 21 B. Trademarks ..................................................... .........................22 1. Overview of Trademarks .................................................. 22 2. Trademark Risks and Solutions ........................................ 23 * Visiting Clinical Associate Professor and Director of the Law and Entrepreneurship Clinic, Marquette University Law School. The author would like to thank the Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review for the opportunity to present at the Innovation in Wisconsin Symposium in October 2017 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. C M Y K 40672-mqi_22-1 Sheet No. 4 Side B 05/20/2019 14:43:36 5. HAMMONS.FINAL (DO NOT DELETE) 9/13/2018 11:46 AM 4 MARQ. INTELL. PROP. L. REV. [Vol. 22:1 C. Trade Secrets ........................................................................... 23 1. Overview .......................................................................... 23 2. Trade Secret Issues Arising with Support Programs ........ 25 a. Creation of Information for a Startup. ......................... 25 b. Disclosure of Information by a Startup ....................... 26 c. Efforts to Maintain Secrecy ........................................ 28 D. Patents ..................................................................................... 29 1. Overview of Patents .......................................................... 29 2. Patent Ownership and Assignment ................................... 31 3. Issues with Patents and Entrepreneurship Support Programs ........................................................................ 32 III. FOSTERING OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OWNERSHIP BY WISCONSIN ENTREPRENEURSHIP SUPPORT PROGRAMS .................. 32 CONCLUSION ............................................................................................................... 33 INTRODUCTION Wisconsin is not known as a bastion of startup activity.1 Yet the startup scene has changed significantly since the turn of the century, and the pace of change has been accelerating. In 2001, only eight early-stage Wisconsin companies raised capital, totaling less than $53 million.2 In 2016, by way of comparison, 137 early-stage Wisconsin companies raised more than $276 million in investment capital.3 As someone familiar with the state might surmise, more than half of the deals closed in 2016 were in the Madison area,4 1. Wisconsin has achieved notoriety of sorts by ranking last in business startup activity the past 40672-mqi_22-1 Sheet No. 4 Side B 05/20/2019 14:43:36 three years, according to the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. Rick Rommell, For Third Straight Year, Wisconsin Ranks Last in Business Startup Activity, JOURNAL SENTINEL (May 18, 2017 7:00 AM), http://www.jsonline.com/story/money/2017/05/18/third-straight-year-wisconsin-ranks-last- business-startup-activity/328803001/?cookies=&from=global [https://perma.cc/9R6W-ZKY5]; 2017 Kauffman Index of Startup Activity, EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION (2017), http://www.kauffman.org/kauffmanindex/reporting/~/media/b27f0b8eb4a8414295f23870538 e5372.ashx [https://perma.cc/2U8T-QDK4]. Other studies place Wisconsin’s startup activity in a more positive light. See Tom Still,