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JOHN LEGERE WILLIAMS
THE RIGHT START
Many entities appreciate that Delaware accommodates all types
of business structures, from exempt corporations to limited-liability companies (LLC), series LLC to limited partnerships, Damon says.
The Division of Corporations’ website, corp.delaware.gov, has
online forms. But as in the past, many organizations and companies seek help to best navigate the process. Attorney John Legere Williams is president of IncNow, which uses technology to help businesses form an LLC or a Series LLC.
“We have attorneys in the background, managing the process for quality control, all enabled by the latest technology in document and systems automation,”
MARK FLEGG
Williams says. “Every certificate and letter is signed in wet ink for quality control.”
THE RIGHT TOOLS
When it comes to innovation, technology is crucial, and Delaware’s support services for businesses make
it a priority. CSC, for instance, offers enterprise-specific solutions to facilitate smoother transactions, smarter knowledge-based decisions, better compliance, improved collaboration, stronger online brand protection and more efficient management of corporate and legal data, says Mark Flegg, CSC’s global director of security services.
Williams is on top of blockchain,
a record-keeping technology. “Most other databases suffer from a lack of redundancy,” he says. “If you change one
[Delaware] has a sophisticated bar of lawyers skilled in every aspect of the law.”
record in one location, you change it and often there is no trace of the old record.” Blockchain, which is designed to add information to a database and not rewrite or edit the existing data, helps companies
avoid working with third parties to verify the data’s integrity, he says. The blockchain is the fact-checking record. Only certain parties can view it, which makes it less vulnerable to hackers.
CSC recently built CSC Security Center, which has a proprietary algorithm so clients can audit and consolidate domains, secure them, optimize and promote them, and monitor them.
“Currently, CSC is the only provider that can offer this level of service,” Flegg says, “and it was all born right
in Delaware.” ID
DONEENE KEEMER DAMON
Q&A JOY GOSWAMI
University of Delaware
Joy Goswami wears many hats, but they all benefit innovators. He is the assistant director of technology transfer and corporate partnerships
in the Office of Economic
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JOY GOSWAMI
Innovation and Partnerships (OEIP) at the University of Delaware. He’s also one of only 400 registered technology transfer professionals (RTTP) worldwide, and he’s a registered patent agent for the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.
We talked to Goswami about his role and how OEIP benefits businesses in Delaware.
For more information about OEIP, visit oeip.udel.edu.
What is the goal of the OEIP corporate partnership initiative?
Industry and university collaborations have existed since the 1970s. ... The OEIP’s corporate partnership initiative facilitates the promotion of industry collaboration to combine [industry and university] technical skills, knowledge and resources to innovate and address challenges.