10 Intellectual Property Considerations for Protecting Your Company?s Innovations
When
October 14, 2015
Contact Information
entforumcambridge@mit.edu
In partnership with the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge, we invite you come for lunch and learn how businesses are reaping rewards by protecting their core technologies/products through strategic procurement and use of intellectual property (IP) rights.
You have worked hard to get your company on its feet. You protect it daily against a host of challenges. Are you protecting some of the most valuable assets of your company – your innovations? Protecting your innovations through intellectual property strategies, including patenting, freedom-to-operate studies, trademarks, employment agreements, confidentiality agreements and consulting agreements, are critical to the long-term success of your start-up.
Attendees will learn 10 considerations for strategically protecting and using intellectual property.
Other highlights include –
- Identifying your company’s valuable intellectual property
- Avoiding pitfalls that can forfeit your patent rights
- Determining if patenting your innovation is the right step for your business
- Determining the best timing to protect your innovation
- Creating a value proposition for potential investors
We will introduce you to the tools you need to identify and protect your intellectual property rights.