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Intellectual Property Bootcamp: Lessons in how to start an IP Centric Company

WPI Campus Center Hagglund Room, 100 Institute Road

01609-2280

15 November 2011 - 16 November 2011

Worcester, Massachusetts

For more information:

Organizer: Worcester Polytechnic Institute

http://www.wpi.edu/academics/Depts/MGT/CEI/globaleweek.html

"Intellectual Property Bootcamp: Lessons in how to start an IP Centric Company" Tuesday, November 15, 2011 WPI Campus Center - Hagglund Room 4:00-5:00PM This workshop will explore how to start an IP centric company using the licensing model. The "Big Bang Theory" will be used as a way to look at the time line in taking an idea from concept thru the steps of reduction to practice, prototype, and licensed royalty bearing commercial distribution. The barriers to licensing large corporations will be examined by taking a close look at a typical idea submission agreement. The steps that bridge the inventor/founders goals to successful licensing outcomes will be analyzed with real world examples from the process. Speaker David Schwartz is the Technical Founder of Productive Education, LLC