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Strategic Patent Protection for Medical Innovations
October 20, 2022 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm EDT
Free
Recordings
Full Length
Fireside Chat with Medical Industry and Patent Experts (Zoom Online)
Hosted by: Medical Development Group Boston
Your business’s value and long-term success may well hinge on protecting your innovations through patents. Do you have a plan for securing your innovations through patents? Do you know the timing requirements for seeking patent protection? Do you want to strengthen your company’s competitive advantage?
We invite you to join an interactive panel discussion with Mary Lou Wakimura and Larry Cogswell, Ph.D., U.S. patent attorneys and Principals at Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds, panelists Renee Masi from BioStar Ventures and Chase Coffman from Elektrofi, who have worked to wrestle with these issues. The panelists will have a fireside chat to illustrate strategies used to protect and enforce patent rights, including:
- Identifying your company’s valuable intellectual property
- Using patents to protect innovation
- Avoiding pitfalls that can forfeit your patent rights
- Determining the best timing to protect your innovation
- Understanding the value of your patent to help grow your business, raise funding, and partner with other medical companies

Renee Masi, MBA
Managing Director, BioStar Ventures

Chase Coffman, PhD
CEO & Co-Founder, Elektrofi

Mary Lou Wakimura, JD
Principal, Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds

Lawrence Cogswell, PhD MODERATOR
Principal, Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds
Larry is an experienced IP litigator, Ph.D. scientist, patent prosecutor, and trusted counselor in strategic IP matters, such as IP due diligence. Larry is a former judicial clerk to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He is also a graduate of Yale Law School, Harvard University, and Duke University. As an IP litigator, Larry represents clients in patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret cases. Clients rely on Larry’s integrated understanding of the legal and technical aspects of the case, which enables a thorough vetting of the issues and cost-effective analysis and delivery of solid, practical advice.
Agenda
Oct 20, 2022 (Zoom Online)
4:30 pm – 6:00 pm EDT (including Q&A)
About Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.
Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds is an internationally renowned law firm devoted to the practice of intellectual property law. The firm specializes in patents, trademarks, intellectual property litigation, post-grant proceedings, copyrights, licensing, due diligence, opinions, trade secrets, and intellectual property counseling. The firm’s legal staff provides comprehensive intellectual property expertise in a wide range of technical areas such as biotechnology, chemistry, computer hardware and software, telecommunications, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, physics, optics, nanotechnology, and electrical, chemical, and mechanical engineering.
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