Start Smart Session: 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 (trade secrets, patents, copyrights, trademarks, etc.)
• How to handle IP created by class projects when one or more of the student team members want to pursue commercialization.
• Developing a patent strategy.
  • Do you really need a patent?
  • Cost a patent: Legal fees and other filing expenses
  • Difference between a provisional patent and a formal patent filing.
  • 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)