| What You Need To Know About Nanotechnology
Legal and Strategic Issues
Sponsored with the Intellectual Property Law Concentration and the
Massachusetts Technology Collaborative
Please Note: This course has already
been held.
Date: Friday, October 01, 2004
Location: Suffolk University Law School, 120 Tremont St., Boston, MA
Time: 09:00 AM - 04:00 PM
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Do you know what Nanotechnology is and how to represent clients in this field? Lawyers who have developed practices in this area say that there are unique aspects that require a different practice approach. Since Nanotechnology is a growing new field that is in its infancy, much is still unknown about how businesses in this area will be regulated. Early research suggests this is a broad technology that cuts across a variety of technological disciplines and may have a wide array of potential marketplace applications. Attend this program and learn about the strategic, business, intellectual property and regulatory issues surrounding this new technology. The legal, business and strategic issues involved in moving this technology from the laboratory to the marketplace will be examined. Legal and business considerations will be explored from the perspective of law firms, universities and venture capitalists. The effect of government funding on basic research in this area will also be examined. Panelists will discuss methods of protecting and transferring this budding technology both in the United States and abroad via both intellectual property laws and business structures. Potential governmental regulatory issues will also be examined.
Who Should Attend:
This program will be of interest to intellectual property attorneys, business attorneys involved in bringing new technology ventures to the marketplace and other individuals who deal with funding, marketing or regulating new technologies.
Attend and Learn:
- What is nanotechnology?
- How to take nanotechnology from the laboratory to the marketplace.
- How to protect nanotechnology both here and abroad.
- Governmental regulatory issues related to nanotechnology.
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Professor Andrew Beckerman-Rodau, Chair
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Co-Director of IP Law Concentration, Suffolk University Law School |
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Robert Benson, Ph.D.
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Associate Director for Licensing, Harvard University |
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Pearl Chin
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Managing General Partner, Seraphima Ventures, New York, NY |
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Peter Dichiara, Co-Chair
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Nanotechnology Group, WilmerHale, Boston, MA |
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Eileen Smith Ewing
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K & L Gates, Boston, MA |
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J. Peter Fasse
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Fish & Richardson LLP, Boston, MA |
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Melissa Hoffer
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Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, LLP, Boston, MA |
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Thomas Hubbard, Vice President
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Technology Development & Analysis, Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, Westborough, MA |
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Robert Kirsch
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Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, LLP, Boston, MA |
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Michael R. Knapp, President & CEO
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Cambrios, Inc., Cambridge, MA |
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Kristen Kulinowski
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Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology Rice University, Houston, TX |
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Chin H. Pham
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Greenberg Traurig LLP, Boston, MA |
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James Watkins
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Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA |
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Paul M. Wormser
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Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Commercial Venture Development, Office of Research Administration, Lowell, MA |
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| S C H E D U L E / A G E N D A |
| 9:00 |
Welcome and Introductions |
Professor Andrew Beckerman-Rodau, Co-Director
Intellectual Property Law Concentration, Suffolk U. Law School
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| 9:10 |
What Is Nanotechnology? |
Thomas Hubbard, Vice President, Technology Development & Analysis, Massachusetts Technology Collaborative and
James Watkins, Ph.D., Professor and Co-Director, MassNanoTech Center, UMass, Amherst
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| 9:40 |
Analysis of the Case |
- Business/strategic issues
- University issues
- What is unique from law firm perspective
- Who owns the IP
- What is the source of the IP
- Managing outside capital/business issues
- Due diligence
- Government funded research
Pearl Chin, Ph.D., MBA, Peter Dichiara, Esq., Chinh H. Pham, Esq.& Professor James Watkins
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| 11:15 |
How to Build an IP Portfolio |
- File patents-US and other countries
- Trade Secret, trademark, and other forms of IP
- Allocating resources
- How technology is transferred- assignments and licenses
Robert Benson, Ph.D., J. Peter Fasse, Esq. & Paul M. Wormser
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| 12:15 |
Lunch (on your own) |
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| 1:15 |
How to Develop the Technology |
- Joint development agreements
- How strategic alliances with big pharma assist the nanotechbiotech or nanotech-medical device company in developing and commercializing a product.
Eileen Smith Ewing, Esq.
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| 2:30 |
Regulatory Concerns |
- Who regulates?
- Role of funders
- Health and environmental impacts of nano materials
Thomas Hubbard, Moderator
Kevin Ausman, Ph.D., Melissa Hoffer, Esq., and Robert Kuirsch, Esq.
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| 3:30 |
Lessons from Other Industries and How They Apply |
| Eileen Smith Ewing, Esq., Peter Dichiara, Esq., J. Peter Fasse, Esq. & Chinh H. Pham, Esq.
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| Date: |
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Friday, October 01, 2004 |
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Tuition is $199; $159 for attorneys admitted to the Bar after 2001. Course book and refreshments included in the tuition charge. A limited number of partial scholarships are available. Please submit a written request via fax 617-305-3099.
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Space is limited. Registrations at the door are welcome, but please register in advance to reserve a seat and your written course materials or call to confirm space availability.
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Written requests for cancellations received via fax or email 24 hours prior to the program will be granted a refund, minus a $15 charge. If you cannot attend, you can send a substitute, otherwise you will receive the written course materials.
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Suffolk University Law School, 120 Tremont St., Boston, MA
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Approved for CLE Credit in NY, RI, NH, VT & ME.
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If you have special needs addressed by the Americans with Disabilities Act, please notify us as soon as possible.
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