Licensing intellectual property (IP) comes up in a number of contexts. You may be licensing your technology to another company. Or on the flip side, you may be licensing technology from someone else for your use. In some cases, you are looking at a [...]
Moving new technologies into the healthcare arena is all over the news as of late. But when it comes to the older strata of the population, there are some additional considerations that come into play. The concerns are not the ones I think most people [...]
As said by Kermit the Frog of Muppets fame, being green isn’t easy. And being “green” in the sense of being a newbie in the start-up space isn’t so easy either. So it goes as the third cohort enters Project Zygote, a pre-accelerator for digital [...]
“Yum!” exclaimed Elle as she saw the box of scones, brioche and other goodies that Daniella, CompanieBee’s IP attorney, had brought along for the meeting. “Where did you get these?” Elle asked. “In the Inner Sunset District, at a bakery called Arizmendi.” The other members [...]
Patents are sometimes visualized as fences, designating where property lines run. But where the confusion seems to reside, is whether these fences are delineating where you can run free or where others can’t go. To put it in IP jargon, having a patent is not [...]
I met a group of angel investors the other day at an event addressing the selection of companies for investment. I asked one participant whether intellectual property (IP) was part of their consideration. “We leave that to the attorney” was the answer I got. I [...]
A few years ago, I wrote about the first emergence of biosimilars on the US market. At the time, everyone was focused on the patent dance – how patent litigation would play out with the new rules. Very little was happening in the product arena. [...]
This week marked another digital health conference – the Rock Health Summit. I confess that when I signed up for this one, I didn’t realize that I would be going to 2 other conferences so close in time. I experienced a bit of “conference fatigue” [...]
CompanieBee was now a few months into its incubator term. This morning’s strategy/coffee session brought a new twist. Vijay approached the table with a new face at his side. “Everyone, this is Alex. He joins our team at CompanieBee starting today.” Vijay explained that Alex [...]
As I sat through the AAMA 2017 Healthcare Connect Conference on October 12, an old family memory surfaced. In the early 1990’s, my grandpa bought each member of our family a video phone. Our small family was dispersed between the mid-western and the southeastern states. [...]
