Start Smart Legal Series: How to Handle Your (and others’) Intellectual Property
December 2 @ 5:00 pm - 6:15 pm
Intellectual Property is an asset to be protected. This session will cover how to deal with IP issues including:
- Different ways to protect your company’s IP (copyrights, trade secrets, patents, trademarks, etc.)
- Do you really need a patent?
- Difference between a provisional patent and a formal patent filing
- Developing a patent strategy
- How to handle IP created by class projects when one or more of the student team members want to pursue commercialization
- Tips on searching the US Patent Office Database (for prior ‘art’ e.g. existing patents)
- What to expect after filing a patent (time and expenses)