MichBio Webinar: Prenuptial Patenting

By: Josh Sloat

Responsible Engagement with Engineering Firms

Please join us June 5th online with our good friends at MichBio for an essential talk on prenuptial patenting! ​You have your big idea and now it’s time to breathe it into existence, but you need some help with the development. Like many others, you may turn to the aid of an engineering firm or dev shop. This relationship is a marriage of sorts. But it’s a marriage that is designed to inevitably end in divorce. How cleanly, smoothly, and successfully this separation goes depends on the steps that you take before it officially begins. 

In this talk, Dr. Ashley Sloat will lead an exploration into responsible engagement with engineering firms, or what we affectionately refer to here as “Prenuptial Patenting”. Ashley will walk you down the aisle and explore everything you need to know to experience marital bliss and an amicable divorce with your engineering partners. This talk covers the full life cycle from vetting partners to post development concerns and everything in between – with particular focus on relationship complexities like IP ownership, assignment from engineering firm inventors back to you, and how to avoid the traps of viral IP.
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About MichBio

Since 1993, MichBio has been driving bio-industry growth in Michigan by providing access to resources and information critical to success, advocating for policy decisions that support the long-term viability of the life sciences, and connecting the people, companies, and ideas necessary to create the next generation of bio-innovation. Ashley is a proud member of MichBio’s IP & Legal Committee, where she helps shape the legal frameworks supporting innovation.

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