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Commercialization Workshop for Life Sciences

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Are you interested in learning about the skills needed to commercialize an innovation? Do you have an innovation that you are looking to bring out of the lab? Are you looking for funding to aide commercialization efforts? Attend the LIBH Commercialization Workshop.

The Long Island Bioscience Hub (LIBH) is hosting a Life Science focused Mini-Boot Camp- a one day rapid fire workshop that will provide practical tools used in commercialization as well as strategies to enhance applications for LIBH grant funding.

Thursday, October 29, 2015

8:30a-3:00pLong Island High Technology Incubator

25 Health Sciences Drive, Stony Brook, NY 11794

Who Should Attend: Faculty, Physicians, Fellows, Post Docs, Grad Students

Topics Include: Intellectual Property, Business Models, Market Needs & Size, Competitive Landscape, Regulatory Pathways

This is a free event but interested participants are asked to RSVP via email to Tiffany Tsui, PhD: tiffany.tsui@stonybrook.edu

 

1st Pitch Life Sciences Meeting – April 14

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Eavesdropping on Investors’ Closed Door Discussions”

1st Pitch Life Sciences Meeting

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

5:30pm – 8:30pm

Hear what happens after a start-up company presents to an investor group. Usually after the company representatives leave the room the investors have a private discussion to decide whether the opportunity merits further investigation and possible investment. 1st Pitch Life Science offers presenters and audience members the chance to hear what happens in those closed-door discussion, and to learn what really matters to investors.

1st Pitch Life Science is organized by MABA (Mid Atlantic Bio Angels www.bioangels.net), a life science investor group, to encourage and educate aspiring life science entrepreneurs who know they may be too early or not fully prepared to seek investment but want the opportunity to practice their pitch and to receive constructive criticism from experienced and knowledgeable professionals.

To Register: https://1stpitchapril2015.eventbrite.com

When: Tuesday, April 14th, 2015

5:30pm : Registration & Networking

6:00 – 8:00pm : Program

8:00 – 8:30pm : Networking

Where:** Please note new location**

New York Genome Center

101 Avenue of the Americas

New York, NY 10013

 

The Entrepreneur’s Toolkit Workshop – April 21, 2015

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The Entrepreneur’s Toolkit Workshop is the next installment of how to workshops for entrepreneurs, early phase companies, inventors, and anyone thinking of becoming an entrepreneur. Technology agnostic information on topics such as Seed Funding, Crowd Funding, What is the profile of a fundable company? Protecting my edge in intellectual property? What type of incorporation is right for me? will be presented. View complete agenda here.

This event will be taking place April 21, 2015 at the Center for Wireless and Information Technology at Stony Brook University. View event flyer – Registration for this singular event is at no charge, but space is limited – please reserve your seat here: http://www.cewit.org/newsevents/EntrepreneursToolkitInterestForm.html

Startup Mission Critical: How to build an IP portfolio investors will want to invest in early and often

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Presented by Clean Energy Business Incubator Program

Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Long Island High Tech Incubator

3:30 PM – 5:00 PM: Seminar

5:00 PM – 7:00 PM: Mixer

In most cases for a startup, having patent, trade secret, trademark, and/or copyright protection is the key leverage needed to attract the life-blood investment necessary to sustain and grow the startup to exit. This discussion will address from a startup’s perspective how to maintain the maximum potential value of Intellectual Property you may have AND future Intellectual Property that you don’t even know about yet!

You will learn about:

  • Patent, Trademark, Copyright and Trade Secret Basics
  • Common misconceptions about IP, e.g., Patentability and enforcement vs. Freedom-to-Operate
  • Preparing for your pitch and the resultant Due Diligence
  • What steps to take (or not to take) in order to avoid losing your precious IP leverage: Unintentionally forfeiting IP rights,Controlling ownership,And other IP portfolio building strategies

Speakers: Ray Farrell, founding partner of Carter, DeLuca, Farrell & Schmidt, LLP; Pina Campagna, Patent & Trademark Attorney at Carter, DeLuca, Farrell & Schmidt, LLP.

RSVP to David C Hamilton Director, Business Development, Clean Energy Business Incubator Program (CEBIP): david.hamilton@stonybrook.edu

Life Sciences Summit 2014: October 28-29, NYC

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The Life Sciences Summit is an early stage investor and business development conference that highlights innovation. The objective of the event is to connect biotech and academic innovators with the capital and strategic partners they will need to move new discoveries into clinical development. This year’s event will take place on October 28-29 at 10 on the Park at Time Warner Center in New York City. Visit www.lifesciencessummit.org for full event details.