Question

If a patent lawyer works for a startup without cash compensation, but receives instead shares in the presumably soon-to-be-successful enterprise, she is working for _____.

Answer 1

pro bono

Step-by-step explanation:

definition is (especially with reference to legal work for a client with a low income) without charge.

Answer 2

sweat equity, the patent lawyer is doing for a project or enterprise in the form of effort to work for the ownership interest in a business that will increase in value it is a preferred mode of building equity for entrepreneurs who do have much money in their start-up ventures since they may be unable to provide as much financial capital to their business