Fundamentals for Startups Fridays: IP and Patents, March 4

Who: CoMotion
Where: CoMotion Incubator, 4000 Mason Road, Fluke Hall, 3rd Floor, Seattle, WA 98105
When: March 4, 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm
What: IP with Jennifer Fan and Patents with Alex Kong & Lauren Mitchell

Jennifer Fan is a lecturer and Managing Director for the Entrepreneurial Law Clinic. Before joining the faculty, she was a senior associate in the corporate securities group at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Professor Fan was also the inaugural director of the Pro Bono Program of the John and Terry Levin Center for Public Service and Public Interest Law at Stanford Law School.
Fundamentals for Startups Fridays: IP with Jennifer Fan and Patents with Alex Kong & Lauren Mitchell

CoMotion Incubator is a collaborative hub for students, faculty, staff, and the local innovation community. We host many networking, educational, and social events providing the opportunity to mindshare with and inspire startups and aspiring entrepreneurs in the UW family.

Entrepreneurial Law Clinic (ELC) is an innovative clinic serving entrepreneurs throughout the Pacific Northwest. The ELC team law and business students with pro bono attorneys and business advisors to provide critical early stage legal and business counseling.

Goal with our Working Sessions:

To provide our CoMotion Incubator Community and ELC Community with access to leading experts that can close the GAP in startup knowledge. These workshops will give startups, teams and students a chance to learn practical knowledge, as well as provide hands-on training, and networking opportunities with professionals in various branches of business.

Format of the Working Sessions:

The working sessions will have a topic and an area expert providing key insights and knowledge regarding the topic in a 20 minute lecture format. After the lecture, the attendees will break into working sessions to engage with the topic as it relates to them.
Then we will have an ELC student presentation on a legal matter pertinent to startups. The Student will present for 25 to 35 min and then will work with the advising council to answer questions regarding that topic.
For both sessions, we will invite CoMotion mentors and EIRs as a resource to the attendees to help answer any questions and think through any problems they may be facing.
All lecture portions will be video captured and livestreamed.

Each Incubator Working Session will start at 12:15pm, with 20 min lecture.
Q&A time for the topic till 1pm.
Each ELC Student presentation will start at 1pm, with 25-35 min lecture.
Q&A time for the topic till 2pm.
The entire working sessions will be open till 3pm. For the audience to work with our groups.