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2003-03-05 - Intellectual Property Considerations in Building Your Business
WHAT: Please join David Carroll '73 for a discussion of the role of intellectual property in the early stages of your company’s formation and growth. Given the panoply of IP laws, which ones should you pay attention to? When do you need to take action? Young companies encounter many IP challenges and opportunities as they struggle with funding, recruiting, research and development, alliance-building, and manufacturing and distribution. Issues involving IP ownership, IP agreements, patents, copyrights, trademarks, the DMCA, IP licensing, strategic IP, and angry competitors with IP assets of their own, all of these and more will have to be dealt with within the constraints of your company’s resources as your company builds toward success.
David is a Partner in the Intellectual Property practice group of Dorsey & Whitney, where he practices all aspects of intellectual property law, including strategic counseling in patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets, intellectual property due diligence and auditing, patent validity/infringement analysis and opinion rendering, patent preparation and prosecution, management of intangible assets portfolios, patent and technology licensing, software and multimedia (including Internet) licensing, technology partnering agreements, consulting and services agreements, and patent litigation trial strategy and discovery. His areas of technical concentration include computers and semiconductors, software and business methods, remote sensing, and medical devices. He has served as in house counsel with Schlumberger, and has practiced with the IP boutique Skjerven Morrill in San Jose, California, and with the Brobeck firm in Austin, Texas. David received a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Princeton and a JD from New York University School of Law.
WHERE:
1900 Fifteenth Street (the offices of Faegre & Benson)
Boulder, Colorado 80302
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2002-09-25 - Entrepreneurship in 2002
A panel composed of highly successful entrepreneurs and academics (all of whom are Princeton Alumni) will discuss the challenges and opportunities facing entrepreneurial businesses after the bubble.
Panel topics will include: the role of academic institutions in entrepreneurism; capital raising v. boot strapping; strategic planning; and executing a business plan.
Panelists:
Demetri Coupounas, MBA, MPA, AB '88: "Coup" is the Co-Founder and President of GoLite, maker of the lightest high quality outdoor gear in the world. He co-founded GoLite with his wife Kim '89 in 1998 and is responsible for the design, development, production, sales and service efforts in all of GoLite's markets world-wide. Prior to GoLite, Coup was Policy Director of the anti-deficit and debt Concord Coalition in Washington, DC, an associate at Mercer Management Consulting, strategic planner in the office of the Chairman of the American Stock Exchange, and Special Assistant to the Chairman of the SEC.
Douglas A. Hensler, PE, PhD, MBA, BSE (Aerospace and Mechanical Sciences) '69: Dr. Hensler is the W. Edwards Deming Professor of Management at the University of Colorado at Boulder, a joint appointment to the College of Engineering and Applied Science and the Leeds School of Business and he also serves as Co-Faculty Director of the Robert H. and Beverly A. Deming Center for Entrepreneurship, a joint center of the college and school. Doug is the co-editor of Measuring Business Excellence, a refereed journal aimed for the academic and practitioner worlds alike and he co-founded the Multinational Alliance for the Advancement of Organizational Excellence and currently serves as its Executive Director. He is a licensed professional engineer in Quality Engineering and his managerial experience includes thirteen years in staff and line management position in the nuclear and aerospace industries. Doug advises companies ranging from start-ups to multi-national industry leaders as a consultant, trainer and Board member.
Jared Polis, AB '96: Named an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year for 2000 and named one of the top ten young entrepreneurs by Success Magazine, Jared Polis is a businessman and political activist who has founded, funded, and/or run several high-tech start-ups including Bluemountain.com, American Information Systems, Inc., Proflowers.com, and Dan’s Chocolates. From 1996 to 1999, Jared served as CEO of Bluemountain.com, the most popular electronic greeting card site on the Internet, and led its business development team until the company was sold to Excite@Home in the fall of 1999. While at Princeton, Jared co-founded American Information Systems, Inc. (ais.net), a Chicago-based network implementation and Internet software development company that was sold to Exodus Communications in 1998. While still in high school, Jared began to build the groundwork for a highly successful career by buying surplus scrap metal from the United States Department of Defense and selling it to mills. At the age of 17, he spent the summer in Moscow trading privatization vouchers on the Russian Commodities Exchange, and spent several days as the only non-Russian on the floor. In 2000, Jared ran for and was elected to the At-large seat on the Colorado State Board of Education.
Moderator:
Christopher M. Leh, JD, AB '85: Mr. Leh is a partner in the Labor & Employment Group of Holland & Hart LLP (www.hollandhart.com), where he represents employers of all sizes. His expertise includes litigation and counseling in a wide variety of areas, including wrongful termination and discrimination, downsizing and reorganization, trade secrets, employee handbooks; and employment, noncompetition and severance agreements. Following graduation from the Woodrow Wilson School, he worked as a legislative assistant in Princeton's Office of Governmental Relations in Washington, D.C. After earning his law degree from NYU, Mr. Leh served as a judicial clerk for a federal district court judge in Denver. Since that time, he has worked with employers in many industries, including engineering, pharmaceutical manufacturing, aerospace, telecommunications and software.
When: Wednesday, September 25, 2002
6:30pm to 9:00pm
Where: The Denver Athletic Club
1325 Glenarm Place
Denver, CO 80204
(720)931-6751 (Onsite parking is available for $3.00)
Hors d'oeuvres will be provided
Cash Bar
Cost: $10.00 per person for paid registration received by Wed., September 18.
$15.00 per person for registrations after September 18 and at the door.
Co-Sponsored by Holland & Hart, LLP (www.hollandhart.com)
RSVP:
Please RSVP to Nate Ford '93 at nford@faegre.com and please pay via PrincetonEN's Paypal account (www.PayPal.com) by entering the amount and treasurer@princetonen.org OR by check to the address set forth below OR cash or check at the event. All checks should be made payable to Princeton Entrepreneurs' Network.
http://www.princetonen.org
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