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Companies often use non-competes to protect their business ideas from departing employees, advisors, and consultants. Sometimes non-competes are structured as a separate agreement, other times it appears as language embedded within the employment agreement or inventions assignment agreement.
When obtaining a word mark from the USPTO just isn’t possible, but you really want to keep your name, you can try for a logo mark, whereby your register your actual fully designed logo in all it’s colorful and shapely glory.
Below is the general game plan for getting your single-member Delaware LLC up and running. If you are planning to have more than one owner of the business, then the process becomes sufficiently more complicated and you should speak with an attorney.
You’ve incorporated a company by filing the Certificate of Incorporation (which, by the way, has many names depending on your attorney’s state of mind and the literal state of incorporation, e.g. COI, Charter, Article of Incorporation, AOI). You now have a slew of documents to sign, including a 20+ page document called bylaws.