Innovative Businesses and Breakthrough Technologies - The Legal Issues

Calendar

LEC #	TOPICS	KEY DATES
Module I - Basic Building Blocks
1	Introduction
2	The Law of Duties
3	The Hard Edge of Regulation
4	Contract I
5	Contracts II
Module II - Launching, Growing, and Exiting a Venture
6	Setting Up a New Venture Guest: Joe Hadzima, Main St. Partners
7	Financing the Venture I - Venture Capital Guest: Kenneth Gordon, Testa Hurwitz & Thibeault
8	Financing the Venture II - Going Public Guest: Kenneth Gordon, Testa Hurwitz & Thibeault
9	Joint Ventures and M&A	1st exercise available two days after lecture 9 at 9 a.m. and is to be completed the next day at 9 p.m.
10	Employment; Module Wrap-up
Module III - Innovation, Commercialization, and Intellectual Property
11	Introduction to Technology Transfer
12	Copyrights and Software
13	Patents I: The Basics of Patent Law Guest: Bo Pasternack, Choate Hall
14	Patents II: Breakthrough Technologies - The Example of Biotechnology Patents Guest: Anita Meiklejohn, Fish & Richardson
15	Antitrust, JVs and IP
16	IP Rights and Business Strategies I Guest: Sarah Cabot, Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo
17	IP Rights and Business Strategies II Guest: Joe Hadzima, Main St. Partners
18	Shifting Business Models and the Law: The Example of the Internet Guest: Jorge Contreras, Hale & Dorr
19	International IP Protection; Licensing; Wrap-up
Module IV - Innovation: The Regulatory and Liability Risks
20	Litigation
21	The Inside Counsel’s Perspective Guests: Tom DesRosiers, Genzyme	2nd exercise is available the day after lecture 21 at noon
22	Bankruptcy and Reorganization Guest: Jeanne Darcey, Palmer & Dodge	2nd exercise is due one day after lecture 22 (which is two days after it was made available) at 9 p.m.
23	National Security and Dealing with Government
24	Products Liability Guest: David Geiger, Foley Hoag