Optimizing IP Strategy for Life Sciences Startups

Join us for lunch and meet Shawn Hansen, Intellectual Property Partner at Nixon Peabody, and learn about IP strategies for life sciences startups. Topics that will be discussed include the following:
• Patents
o Challenges for life sciences inventions
o Efficient filing practices
o Thinking globally
o Defensive considerations
o Enforcement
• Trade Secrets
o Compare and contrast with patents
o New federal law: Defend Trade Secrets Act
o Decision points
o Practical considerations
• Trademarks
o Brands outlive patents
o Value transference
o Market differentiation
o Domain names
o Registration
• Copyrights
o Expression of ideas
o Validation of inventions
o Marketing collateral

About our presenter:
Shawn G. Hansen is an intellectual property partner at Nixon Peabody based in Los Angeles. Shawn has a successful track record over nearly two decades of representing emerging and established companies in litigation of intellectual property cases in federal courts throughout the United States.