The rules of innovation in America have changed significantly and inventors must adapt or lose their patent rights. These are massive changes that significantly impact startups and which challenge the innovation leadership of the United States.

Join us as one of the nations leading experts teaches startup entrepreneurs how to adapt to these changes and learn new strategies to protect your inventions and enhance your business.

Attendees will learn how to:

• Protect their patent rights while raising money
• Correctly use provisional patent applications and trade secrets
• Leverage the new prioritized examination program
• Protect their newly issued patents from competitors
• Leverage their IP to drive partnerships and M&A
• Manage the less obvious risks within the new law

About the speaker:

Keith Grzelak is one of the nations leading experts on the new patent law and an outspoken advocate for startups and individual inventors. Keith is a patent attorney, co-chair of the IEEE IP Professionals Initiative and former IEEE Intellectual Property Committee Chairman who has been fighting to protect the rights of startups while large corporations and their lobbyists have been driving their anti-patent agenda in Washington DC.

Agenda:

• 6:00 until 7:00 - networking and refreshments
• 7:00 until 8:30 - presentation and discussion