Webinars, talks, and workshops
Patent education.
To help reduce the IP barrier of entry for early stage founders and startups, we regularly make our talented staff available for speaking engagements at conferences, competitions, accelerators, and incubators. From time-to-time, we'll also host live webinars. Check back often for updates and reach out if you'd like to schedule a talk or workshop for your group.
Upcoming Events.
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InnovatorMD World Congress 2022Top 3 Inventor Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Thursday, August 18, 2022 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT | Live and Webinar via Zoom We are delivering an IP workshop at the InnovatorMD World Congress 2022, taking place both virtually and in the Bay Area. About this workshop: The patent world is full of trap doors that lie waiting for unsuspecting inventors. Some of these mistakes are reversible with limitations. Others have no undo button. In this talk, we will cover the most common patenting mistakes made by inventors and startups. We’ll highlight best practices for not making the mistakes in the first place and explore available remedial options. Topics include public disclosure mishaps, prior art searching consequences, and ownership quagmires. |
Recent Events.
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Prenuptial Patenting: Responsible Engagement with Engineering Firms
Thursday, March 24, 2022 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM PT | Live Webinar via Zoom Aurora is partnering with InnovatorMD as part of new program called InnovatorMD University. This is a year-long program consisting of 40 Master Classes designed to educate healthcare innovators and entrepreneurs on essential topics. Each Master Class is hosted by Uli K. Chettipally, MD, MPH. and will feature an expert, who is the Instructor for that Master Class. About this talk: You have your big idea and now it’s time to breathe it into existence, but you need some help with the development. In this talk, we discuss everything you need to know before and during the course of engaging with an engineering firm. We’ll cover IP ownership, assignment from engineering firm inventors back to you, and how to avoid the traps of viral IP. |
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InnovatorMD Global Summit 2022
Knowing When to Share Your Idea and When to Shush
Friday, January 7, 2022 | 11:00 AM PDT | Live Webinar via Zoom You’ve had your stroke of genius. Your next inclination is to immediately do one of two things: 1) Yell it from the rooftops and share it with anyone who will listen or 2) keep it close to the vest, not tell anyone, and guard your idea like it’s the One Ring. Both instincts are usually wrong. At least in their absolute forms. Knowing when to share your idea and when to shush is a vital distinction on the journey to innovative success. As we’ll discuss more, sharing too much and too soon can have detrimental effects on your ability to later protect your idea. Conversely, keeping your idea a secret may also not be an option depending on your funding goals. Join us to learn how to strike the balance between these two extremes. |
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SPARK.ed | Prenuptial Patenting
Responsible Engagement with Engineering Firms
Thursday, December 9, 2021 | 11:30am - 12:30pm ET | Free Online Event Aurora is partnering with Ann Arbor SPARK to deliver a three part SPARK.ed series. You've had questions around patenting and the SPARK team has been listening! We've put this series together to address the most common questions that arise from startups within the SPARK ecosystem. About this talk: You have your big idea and now it’s time to breathe it into existence, but you need some help with the development. In this talk, we discuss everything you need to know before and during the course of engaging with an engineering firm. We’ll cover IP ownership, assignment from engineering firm inventors back to you, and how to avoid the traps of viral IP. |
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Key Insights for IP Success
Tuesday, September 14, 2021 | 11:30am - 12:30pm ET | Free Online Event Aurora is partnering with Ann Arbor SPARK to deliver a three part SPARK.ed series. You've had questions around patenting and the SPARK team has been listening! We've put this series together to address the most common questions that arise from startups within the SPARK ecosystem. About this talk: Software is eating the world. It’s central to so much of today’s innovation, but in terms of patenting, it’s socially controversial and legally unsettled. We’ll discuss the dynamics at the core of both and what you need to know about the options for protecting your software-based innovation. We’ll take an international look at how the "world" views AI/ML innovations and also hit on particulars for SaaS and open source software considerations. From an implementation perspective, we’ll look at managing code ownership when outsourcing and how iterative agile methodology can impact your patent strategy. |
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Digital Health Entrepreneurship Workshop
Monday, August 2, 2021 | 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM PDT | Live Webinar via Zoom We are delivering a digital health IP workshop at the InnovatorMD World Congress 2021, taking place both virtually and in the Bay Area. About this workshop: Digital health technologies are pervasive in every aspect of life and will likely be the future of improving patient outcomes beyond the clinic. Using patents to provide a competitive advantage for companies in this space has never been more paramount, but also never more difficult. We’ll discuss the generalities of the US and international patent systems and the specifics around patenting digital health technologies, including artificial intelligence, wearables, and machine learning innovations |
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Protecting your Ideas: IP Strategy for Startups
Thursday, July 22, 2021 | 9:00 AM We will be delivering a talk on IP strategy for the 2021 XLerateHealth Flint cohort. This bootcamp is a 12-week virtual acceleration program, providing companies with the opportunity to work closely with four health systems, universities, and investors. |
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A Coming of Age Story
Thu, June 17, 2021 | 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM EDT | Online event
Aurora is partnering with Ann Arbor SPARK to deliver a three part SPARK.ed series. You've had questions around patenting and the SPARK team has been listening! We've put this series together to address the most common questions that arise from startups within the SPARK ecosystem.
About this talk: The first talk will provide answers to common questions and strategy recommendations for those early years between idea and granted patent. We begin with your idea, how you can talk about it, and what you can and can’t do with it to avoid potentially irreversible patentability issues. We’ll tackle the fundamentals of when your provisional should be filed, how to maximize your runway, and what investors are looking for in your first patent. Moving beyond your provisional filing, we’ll dive into what your startup should be focused on during the critical year of pendency before conversion to a full application. |
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Digital Health Entrepreneurship: Global & US Patents
Weds., May 12 | 5:00-6:30 p.m. PT| Live Webinar via Zoom
Aurora is partnering with InnovatorMD to deliver a digital health talk, focused on Global and US Patents. Our very own Ashley Sloat, Ph.D. will be the instructor.
About the talk: Digital health technologies are pervasive in every aspect of life and will likely be the future of improving patient outcomes beyond the clinic. Using patents to provide a competitive advantage for companies in this space has never been more paramount, but also never more difficult. We’ll discuss the generalities of the US and international patent systems and the specifics around patenting digital health technologies, including artificial intelligence and machine learning innovations. |
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Understanding pharmaceutical patents and their intersection with the FDA
Thurs., Sep. 24, 2020 | 1:00-2:30 p.m. PT | Live Webinar via Zoom
Join us online for socially distant insights into the patent process, from filing to issuance, with a focus on the particularities of pharmaceutical patents, for both small molecules and biologics. Learn how to structure your filings for success, and peer into the complex but valuable interaction between your patents and the FDA regulatory procedure.
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Recorded Talks.
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How you can protect your Cannabis-related innovation in this new age of legalized medical marijuana and recreational use? We'll discuss the use of Plant Variety Protection Certificates, Plant Patents, Design Patents, and Utility Patents to protect your innovation – and some of the pitfalls of these various mechanisms.
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Software patenting has come under intense scrutiny in the last decade. Since the landmark case, Alice Corporation PTY. LTD. v. CLS Bank International, there has been a slow trickle of patents found valid under 35 U.S.C. §101. In this seminar, we will review these court cases and distill the opinions down into a set of drafting tips that will increase the probability that your software claims are patentable.
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Digital health devices are rapidly becoming a key sector of the medical device and IoT space. This revolution begs us to understand issues that digital health companies are facing. In this post, we will describe what makes digital health companies unique and key challenges of digital health companies.
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In this segment, we discuss the use case and length of protection for patents. We also dive a little into patentability versus freedom-to-operate.
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In this segment, we discuss the basic use case and length of protection for copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets.
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