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Innovative Businesses and Breakthrough Technologies - The Legal Issues >> Content Detail



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LEC #TOPICSKEY DATES
Module I - Basic Building Blocks
1Introduction
2The Law of Duties
3The Hard Edge of Regulation
4Contract I
5Contracts II
Module II - Launching, Growing, and Exiting a Venture
6Setting Up a New Venture

Guest: Joe Hadzima, Main St. Partners
7Financing the Venture I - Venture Capital

Guest: Kenneth Gordon, Testa Hurwitz & Thibeault
8Financing the Venture II - Going Public

Guest: Kenneth Gordon, Testa Hurwitz & Thibeault
9Joint Ventures and M&A1st exercise available two days after lecture 9 at 9 a.m. and is to be completed the next day at 9 p.m.
10Employment; Module Wrap-up
Module III - Innovation, Commercialization, and Intellectual Property
11Introduction to Technology Transfer
12Copyrights and Software
13Patents I: The Basics of Patent Law

Guest: Bo Pasternack, Choate Hall
14Patents II: Breakthrough Technologies - The Example of Biotechnology Patents

Guest: Anita Meiklejohn, Fish & Richardson
15Antitrust, JVs and IP
16IP Rights and Business Strategies I

Guest: Sarah Cabot, Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo
17IP Rights and Business Strategies II

Guest: Joe Hadzima, Main St. Partners
18Shifting Business Models and the Law: The Example of the Internet

Guest: Jorge Contreras, Hale & Dorr
19International IP Protection; Licensing; Wrap-up
Module IV - Innovation: The Regulatory and Liability Risks
20Litigation
21The Inside Counsel's Perspective

Guests: Tom DesRosiers,
Genzyme
2nd exercise is available the day after lecture 21 at noon
22Bankruptcy and Reorganization

Guest: Jeanne Darcey, Palmer & Dodge
2nd exercise is due one day after lecture 22 (which is two days after it was made available) at 9 p.m.
23National Security and Dealing with Government
24Products Liability

Guest: David Geiger, Foley Hoag

 








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