BREAKOUT SESSIONS

A.M. Session (10:30am - 11:45am)

10.  What Role Does Intellectual Property Play In Entrepreneurial Businesses?

Every business, small and large, acquires Intellectual Property assets as soon as it its established -- and as it grows, so does its Intellectual Property estate.  Intellectual Property assets include trade secrets, know-how, copyrights, trademarks (service marks), and patents.  This session will teach you what to be aware of and how to protect such assets from inception to IPO (or sale) and beyond.

Speaker: Ronald Baron, Partner, Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

Ronald J. Baron, B.S., Engineering Science, United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, 1970; J.D., St. John's University School of Law, 1979. Admitted to practice in the state and federal courts of New York, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the Supreme Court of the United States; registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. United States Army Officer with a Regular Army Commission in the Signal Corps, 1970-1975. Author of "Preserving Patent Rights Just Got Tougher," New Jersey Law Journal, October 25, 2004. Co-author, "The Pennzoil-Texaco Dispute; An Independent Analysis," Baylor Law Review, Spring 1986. Guest Lecturer at the University of South Dakota School of Law Clark Y. Gunderson Lecture, topic, "Intellectual Property Law Provides Hope to the Entrepreneur." Conducts lectures before academic and business organizations regarding intellectual property law and related matters.