Register Online! Please note that online registration ends at midnight on Saturday, November 29th, however, registration at the door will be available.
Note: Meeting at Bay Colony Office Park Conference Center, 1100 Winter Street, Waltham, MA. Click here for directions.
Meeting Overview:
Legal challenges for Startups have always existed, but today are different. We are currently experiencing one of the most significant changes in the political, economic, and financial landscapes in a century. The panel of distinguished attorneys will address these challenges and offer insight into how the landscape is likely to change.
The panel will address the five
stages of the Startup and the Intellectual Property (IP) activities that
must be considered to avoid infringements. The panel will deliver practical,
real-world information about IP, building your IP toolbox, and developing a
proactive patent strategy to protect valuable IP rights.
Additionally, the panel will discuss how the emerging landscape is likely to
affect the structure of your team and how to stop developing and move into
production.
Attendees will hear real-world "horror stories", how to fix them, and
preferably, how to avoid them in the first place.
GOT QUESTIONS? Bring your questions to the meeting for the
Q&A session following the panel discussion, or e-mail your questions in
advance to the Meeting Organizer: Bill Byrnes at
[email protected]
Panelists Include:
Ed Walsh
Ed Walsh, a shareholder at Wolf
Greenfield works with electrical and computer-related clients in IP strategy
development and execution, including patent prosecution, clearances and
counseling, licensing, consulting agreements, and joint development
agreements. His technical areas include semiconductor processing and
high-speed circuit design, wireless communication and signal processing,
software, networks and network management, connectors and interconnection
technology, and many types of test equipment.
Ed served 14 years as in-house counsel, including Chief IP Counsel for
Teradyne. Before Teradyne, Ed served as Division IP Counsel for Textron
Specialty Materials and as a patent attorney for Raytheon. Prior to law
school, Ed was an electrical engineer, developing operating system software
and analyzing communications systems.
Ed holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Boston University, a M.S. in
Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and a J.D. from Suffolk
University Law School.
William Contente
Bill Contente is a Partner of
Gesmer Updegrove LLP. He represents a wide range of corporate clients, both
large and small, including e-commerce companies, ASPs, a variety of
internet-based companies, computer hardware and software companies, medical
device companies, systems integrators, angel groups, venture capital firms
and consulting firms. He has extensive experience in domestic and
international licensing, "angel" and venture capital financing, secured and
unsecured lending, structuring distribution and development arrangements and
mergers and acquisitions.
Mr. Contente is a director of Launchpad Venture Group, an angel investment
group, and of MassMEDIC IGNITE, which provides guidance to early-stage
medical device companies. He also serves as a director and member of the
executive committee of the Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation. He was
Managing Partner of Gesmer Updegrove from 2002 through 2008, and was
Chairman of the Board of Lena Park Community Development Corporation from
1997 through 2002. He co-chaired the High Technology Practice Group of the
Massachusetts Bar Association from 1994 through 1999, and has served as an
arbitrator for the National Futures Association since 1989. Mr. Contente is
a certified mediator.
Brian Moriarty
Brian Moriarty�s is a principal at
Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C. His practice focuses on IP
litigation, opinions, licensing, patent prosecution, and related counseling.
He is one of only a handful of registered patent attorneys in the U.S. who
also has served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney.
A seasoned trial attorney, Brian has extensive experience as lead trial
counsel in many and varied patent and intellectual property cases. He
recently served as lead counsel for the pharmaceutical patent trials
concerning the billion-dollar drugs Prilosec� and Zofran� and was involved
in the successful effort to invalidate patents covering Prozac�. Brian has
also served as lead trial counsel in a case concerning the use of a laser
for medical treatment and a case concerning licensing of a photo-optics
patent.
He has substantial experience in matters involving lasers, RFID technology,
pharmaceutical compounds and formulations, immunology, medical devices,
business methodologies, mechanical systems, and computer software.
Previously, Brian served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, Eastern District of
New York, United States Department of Justice (1990-95), where he received
numerous awards and commendations from the FBI, DEA, NYPD, and Department of
Justice for his investigative and trial work
Moderator:
J. Scott Southworth
Mr. Southworth is founder of an
independent private practice in patent and intellectual property (IP) law
established in 2003. He has worked extensively with entrepreneurs and
start-up companies developing patent portfolios and counseling them on a
broad range of IP and due diligence issues. He has also performed patent and
IP legal work for major technology and computer companies, as well as
educational institutions. Technical areas include computers, electronic
devices, 2.0software, image processing, networks, wireless communications,
and related areas. His legal publications and presentations have covered
several topics, such as provisional patent applications and publicizing
inventions on web sites. He has had patent and IP experience at several
Boston area law firms, including Testa, Hurwitz, and Thibeault.
Prior to obtaining his law degree, he has had extensive work experience in
the computer field at Digital Equipment Corporation, Apollo Computer, and
Hewlett-Packard. He has published several technical articles and books,
including several articles on hypertext linking. Mr. Southworth obtained his
J.D. degree from Suffolk University Law School, Magna Cum Laude, with a High
Technology Concentration with Distinction, and his undergraduate degree from
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a member of a number of
legal and technical organizations, including the Boston Patent Law
Association, the American IP Law Association, the IP Law section of the ABA,
the Massachusetts Bar Association, the Advanced Computing SIG of the MIT
Enterprise Forum, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
(IEEE).
Meeting Organizer:
William Byrnes
Bill is an attorney and senior
executive with 25+ years of experience building value by commercializing
information and technology. Bill's focus is on creating value through a
unique application of legal and business management experience with a focus
on the management of all elements of the product, sales, and contract life
cycles as the core of the enterprise. This approach is applied externally to
transactions with customers, vendors, and third party business development
relations and internally to facilitate deal making.
Subsequently a �benefit of the bargain� analysis can be validated against
the real world marketplace and value driven to the bottom line and increased
shareholder value are the results. Byrnes & Associates is a network of
professionals providing business services to entrepreneurs and early stage
companies.
Bill received his undergraduate degree in English Literature and Creative
Writing from Boston University, a J.D. from Suffolk University Law School,
and a L.L.M. degree in Taxation from Boston University Law School, Graduate
Tax Program. He is also a Boston Entrepreneurs' Network board member.
Site and Cost:
5:15 PM Pre-meeting
Dinner
Bertucci's Restaurant
475 Winter St., (exit 27B off Route 128), Waltham, MA ("pay-as-you-go")
7:00 - 10:00PM
Meeting Presentation
Note:
Meeting at Bay
Colony Office Park Conference Center, 1100 Winter Street, Waltham,
MA.
Click here for
directions
The meetings are free for ENET members and $20.00 for nonmembers.
No reservations are necessary for either the meeting or dinner.
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