Startup Funding, Formation and Protecting Your Intellectual Property
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Startup Funding and Formation
Attorney Seffi Kaminitz will provide an overview of the process of starting a technology business, including the incorporation phase, vesting procedures, seed financing through note purchase agreements, and more. He will discuss various elements of founding an entity that are unique to the technology industry.
Protecting Your Intellectual Property
Attorney Imran Khaliq will discuss the key steps for start-ups and entrepreneurs on how protect their ideas, identify inventors, build a viable patent portfolio and use the value of patents to obtain funding, discuss their idea openly with potential partners, and protect their space from infringement and competitors. Imran will also discuss how companies and start-ups can avoid infringement traps and encroaching on others patent rights.
Agenda
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm Check In, Dinner, Networking Reception
7:00 pm to 8:45 pm Presentation and Q & A
8:45 pm to 9:00 pm More Q & A, Networking
About the Speakers:
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Seffi Kaminitz is the founding partner of Kaminitz Law, a Silicon Valley firm which exclusively represents technology-based VC backed startup companies. Seffi has over 15 years of experience advising entrepreneurs and investors, and has supported founders with their startup ventures from seed to exit. Kaminitz Law’s practice focuses on startup formation, capitalization, VC funding, mergers and acquisitions, as well as complex licensing commercial transactions related to internet-based and SaaS technology.
Seffi counsels his clients on issues ranging from general corporate matters and compliance to industry specific legal and commercial standards. Additionally, Mr. Kaminitz works with foreign startup and growth stage companies in establishing a presence in the U.S.
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Imran Khaliq is a partner in the San Francisco office of Arent Fox LLP, where he is a member of the firm’s Complex Litigation, Intellectual Property and Emerging Companies practice groups. Imran has obtained and litigated patents for clients in several technical areas, such as software, semiconductors, mobile devices, cloud and Internet technologies, medical devices, and biotechnology.
Imran’s practice includes patent portfolio acquisition, management and strategy; mining patentable inventions and invention disclosures; filing provisional, non-provisional, utility and design patents; counseling clients with freedom to operate opinions, product clearance, standard-setting organizations, non-infringement and invalidity opinions, technology and software licensing; and conducting IP due diligence for clients in connection with financing, mergers and acquisitions.
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Arent Fox LLP, founded in 1942, is an internationally recognized law firm with offices in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and Washington, DC, Arent Fox provides strategic legal counsel to clients that range from Fortune 500 corporations and start-ups, to trade associations and foreign governments.
Arent Fox offers a High Growth Entrepreneurship Program for start-ups and entrepreneurs seeking affordable access to high quality legal services from a national firm. High Growth Entrepreneurship at Arent Fox is a multi-disciplinary team of attorneys drawn together by a shared passion for helping promising entrepreneurs succeed. Each of the team members maintains a practice counseling large corporations and other companies, but remains committed to applying that same level of skill and experience to serving the most promising new companies. We draw together expertise from throughout the firm in order to provide advice about the full range of issues likely to be confronted by a fast-growing company. Team members come from these practices:
Advertising, Promotions & Data Security
Antitrust and Competition Law
Communications, Technology & Mobile
Corporate & Securities
FDA Practice (Food & Drug)
Government Contractor Services
Government Relations
Health Care
Intellectual Property
International Trade
Labor & Employment
Real Estate
Tax
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