Category: IP management
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Cash accounting for SMEs and start-ups
If you are business owners who have a simple business structure and set-up, with annual turnover < S$1million, cash accounting allows you to record income when receive and expenses when pay – unlike the traditional accrual accounting, easing cashflow management. This helps small businesses conserve cash, and avoid cashflow strain by aligning tax obligations with…
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Benefits for your local employees
As SME business owners, you would want to take care of your employees by rendering other staff benefits besides base salary and cpf (as applicable), as well as balance the operating expenses. Things like health, safety and medical insurance, whether it’s mandatory or non-mandatory, play a role in keeping your key assets, .ie. human capital…
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Freelance vs Incorporation
What if you have a versatile of professional skills in the gig economy – portfolio of skillsets with various source of earned income – taxable individual. Do you incorporate a company or stay self-employed? Advantages of incorporation Disadvantages of incorporation
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Copyright VS Copyleft
Having been in the creative industry before, copyright is an important concept to know in the world of IP. Copyright exists to protect the original material form in which they are expressed or fixed, not the ideas, facts or information themselves. So, seek permission from the owners of these forms of creations to get rights…
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Intellectual Property Layering
rade secrets is one of the key type of IP, but it’s non-registrable. So, how is it being protected? In my previous topic, NDA – it’s a document that enables protection of key information, your secret sauces etc agreed between mutual parties. Would the document surfaces to protect your ideas, inventions, something that you have…
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