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<div align="center" style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 153); "><b>If you ever fear talking to others about your work due to potential Intellectual Property issues, you should attend this lecture. :)</b></span></div>
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<div>Dear Postdocs,
<div style="margin-top: 14pt; margin-bottom: 14pt; ">The Postdoctoral Association (PDA) and the MIT Technology Licensing Office (TLO) are happy to bring you a special seminar on the Dos and Don’ts of talking about your not-yet-patented research/invention. </div>
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<b>I think I just invented something... Now what?</b></div>
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<b>Speaker: </b>Christopher Noble, MIT Technology Licensing Office</div>
<div style="margin-top: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Date and Time</b></font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">: Friday, May 9 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm</font></div>
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<font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Location: </b></font><a href="http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=46" target="_blank"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Singleton Auditorium, Building 46-3002</b></font></a></div>
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<font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Sponsor</b></font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">: </font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"> </font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">The MIT Postdoctoral Association</font></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0px; "><b>Please </b><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1WKbY7650uFjqdRms3oXam6lpOS-J0IZmAS9PJNuI7TA/viewform" target="_blank"><b>register for the seminar</b></a><b><br>
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<div align="justify" style="margin-top: 14pt; margin-bottom: 14pt; ">How do I know when my idea has turned into an “invention”? Who can I talk to about it, and when? Which inventions belong to me and which to MIT? Does it matter if I’m a student/postdoc/faculty?
How do I or MIT get it patented? Who decides, who pays? How can this invention advance my career? If the invention belongs to MIT, and I don’t want to start a company, what’s in it for me? If I do want to start a company around it, do I need a license from
MIT, and how do I get one? And if I want to talk to VCs about financing my startup, when is the right time? What will the VCs want?</div>
<div align="justify" style="margin-top: 14pt; margin-bottom: 14pt; "><b>NOTE:</b><b> Postdocs interested in attending upcoming PDA networking events with company reps and VCs are highly encouraged to attend this session.</b></div>
<div align="justify" style="margin-top: 14pt; margin-bottom: 14pt; "><a name="webProfileURL"><b>About the Speaker:</b></a> Christopher Noble is MIT’s Licensing Officer for energy technology. His responsibilities include the intellectual-property terms of sponsored
research, evaluation and patenting of MIT inventions, IP marketing and negotiation of commercial licenses with startups and established companies. He previously worked for 30 years in general management for energy and technology companies ranging from the
Fortune 500 to startups. Chris founded and raised financing for his own startup company, is the lead inventor on two issued patents, has raised and negotiated multiple VC financings as advisor to four early-stage companies, and has served on the Board of several
private technology companies and non-profits. He lived and worked in South America and Europe and is fluent in French and Spanish. Chris is Assistant Vice President of the Association of University Technology Managers and a member of the Licensing Executive
Society (LES), lectures internationally on technology transfer and licensing, and is a recipient of the LES Deals of Distinction award. He has a B.Eng. from McGill University and an M.S. in Management from MIT.</div>
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