It may be time to have a look. Companies sign onto a lot of agreements – confidentiality, materials transfer, collaborations, contract research, contract manufacturing, clinical trials and the like. These agreements each come with obligations and restrictions. Are you keeping track? Make time for [...]
Listening to a podcast in my ever-growing queue this week, I heard an interview with the CEO of Segment, a tech company that provides a platform for communicating data to a variety of analytic tools. The part of the story that caught my attention came [...]
Labor day just went by and for me that has always marked the end of summer, or at least the end of that summer-vacation feeling. After labor day is typically when I went back to school. Those days have long gone by for me. Yet, [...]
What’s in a priority date? You might look on the face of a patent and see a filing date. It might also have a list of priority documents such as an earlier filed PCT or provisional application. So, is it that simple? In a word [...]
I started doing the Headspace meditation app last fall. One recent practice struck me as I was thinking about the journeys entrepreneurs take to start up a company - making some space between yourself and your thoughts and emotions. This mental distance has its place in [...]
Say what you wanna say And let the words fall out Honestly I wanna see you be brave . . . Words from Sara Bareilles’s song “Brave.” In the early days of start-ups, particularly at the incubator stage, pitch presentations are a well-used form of [...]
Pretend you’re the bus driver. That’s how my dad would start the puzzle. Then he’d proceed: At the first stop, 8 people get on. At the 2nd stop, 2 passengers get off and 5 more get on. A the 3rd stop, 6 people get off [...]
“But we do it better” exclaimed Jan. “How is it possible that the Jackson lab can have a patent on this?” Jan was looking quite perturbed. She had been searching Google patents and had unintentionally come across a newly published application. It was related to [...]
Kaiser Permanente Ventures puts on a series of healthcare-related presentations. Last week’s focus was a check up on the applications of digital health technology to mental health treatment. This coincided with a national focus on mental health after 2 prominent figures committed suicide. But importantly, [...]
I recently gave a talk for the UC Davis Venture Catalyst program using the titles and lyrics of Beatles songs to point out some guiding points for an IP strategy. This blog is an abbreviated summary of my talk. Revolution "You say you want a [...]
