Start Smart Legal Series: How to Handle Your (and others’) Intellectual Property

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.)
• 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)

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