Wednesday, January 18, 2012
600 Suffolk Street, 2nd Floor
Lowell, MA 01854
10:00 a.m.
M2D2 Innovation Hub Board Room
Wannalancit Mills Office and Technology Center
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Table 1: Creating an IP Plan That Attracts Capital
This discussion will center around the IP Plan, and how to develop and implement a plan that will help raise capital.
Table 2: Protecting Your IP
This discussion will center around IP basics, including the different types of IP, when and where to file, and patentability.
Table 3: Understanding Barriers to Market Entry
Tuesday December 13th, 2011
From 5:30-7:30 p.m.
M2D2 Innovation Hub Board Room, Wannalancit Mills Office & Technology Center, 600 Suffolk Street, 2nd Floor, Lowell, MA 01854
Working with Universities can be a tremendous opportunity for companies of all sizes.
‘ Do you know of a technology developed at a University that could create a new business opportunity for you or help your improve the competitiveness of your current products?
‘ Do you have an idea needing development or a complex problem that you need expertise solving?
‘ Do you need testing or prototyping done at competitive prices?
Speakers:
Jill Murthi MBA, Director of Commercial Ventures and Intellectual Property at UMass Lowell. Jill has expertise in technology licensing and has spent 10+ of her career focused on biotech and life science licensing and intellectual property management. Jill is a patent agent and was formerly at MGH/Partners.
Gayathri Srinivasan Ph.D, Licensing Officer, UMass Medical School, Office of Technology Management. Gayathri was a licensing associate at MIT’s licensing office prior to UMass Medical School. Gayathri’s background is in Microbiology. She received her Ph.D. from Ohio State University and pursued her post doctoral work at MIT.
Pre-registration Fee: $10.00
After December 8, 2011 & On-Site Registration Fee: $20.00
M2D2 Sponsors
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Greetings!
Please
find below information regarding the “Acceleration 2011: Nutter Early
Stage Life Sciences Conference. This event is being held by Nutter
McClennen & Fish LLP.
ACCELERATION 2011: Nutter Early Stage
Life Sciences Conference
November 17, 2011
3:00 – 7:00 pm
Nutter Conference Center
www.acceleration.nutter.com/2011
Presented by Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP
Co-Presented by Halloran Consulting Group and PwC
An outstanding line-up of speakers is being assembled for this conference including representatives of Atlas Venture, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Novartis, Smith and Nephew, Longwood Founders Fund, and Pfizer. Two panel discussions will examine issues and trends in early-stage development among life science companies.
The first panel will seek to answer the question “How Lean is Too Lean?” and will consider some of the pitfalls and challenges faced by development stage life science companies as they execute on a lean business model from raw technology through the clinical and operational phases of development and finally to commercial launch. The second panel asks “Are Big Pharma and Big Device the New Development Accelerators?”and will examine how large companies are deploying new external investment and development models to optimize their “buy” and “build” pipelines.
This free event is available by invitation only. Please visit
www.acceleration.nutter.com/2011 to request an invitation, view the Agenda and other information.
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M2D2, the Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center
atUMass Lowell opened a new medical device business incubator/accelerator this month. The new facility is open for business and features state of the art wet labs, private offices, and flexible cubicle space. Start-up companies and entrepreneurs can license the space they needfromM2D2 and focus on growing their medical device from idea to fruition. |
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