[Bioundgrd] Fwd: MIT $50K IP Panel Discussion--Wednesday October 1

[Janice Chang]

>From:
>Jehanzeb Noor
>On behalf of the $50K Communications Team
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>MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition - http://50k.mit.edu/
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>************MIT $50K IP Panel Discussion Invitation***************
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>MIT $50K Intellectual Property Panel   
>Date: Wednesday, Octocer 1, 2003
>Time: 6:00 PM
>Location: E51-335
>Featuring: Leading IP specialists from MIT Licensing Office, and legal experts
>from leading law firms
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>- Please come join the MIT $50K Organizing team and learn about issues and
>challenges involved in protecting your ideas from infringement!
>- Start the month on the right note by thinking about innovative business!
>- Learn about protecting IP by asking questions from experts in the field!
>- Hear from prominent resources who will help you start business out 
>of school!
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>ABOUT THE EVENT:
>The MIT $50K in collaboration with the MIT Innovation Club is proud to present
>a marquee event featuring the top Intellectual Property leaders from MIT and
>the business community. If you plan to form a team and nurture your business
>ideas - you can not miss this event! If you want to have future role in
>technological businesses, this is the event to attend! We will have a
>distinguished gathering that will include a panel taking questions from the
>audience, led at the following times by:
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>6:00 - 7:00 pm       Creating and protecting the IP before you leave MIT
>                         Krisztina Holly, Deshpande Center
>                         Thomas Ittelson, MIT Technology Licensing Office
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>7:30 - 8:30 pm       Protecting your business ideas in the marketplace
>                         Joe Capraro, Testa, Hurwitz, & Thebeault LLP
>                         Howard Zaharoff, Morse Brown Barnes and Pendleton LLP
>                         Tom Saunders, Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels LLP
>                         James Lampert, Hale & Dorr LLP
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>Panelists have over 80 years of combined experience working with startup
>companies. Are you sure nobody has preempted your business idea? Are you
>protected from your idea being plagiarized? When should you start worrying
>about these issues? We have all the answers for you! Seating will be limited. 
>Please come early. *Dinner is served*
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>ABOUT THE MIT $50K: The MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition is
>designed to encourage students and researchers in the MIT community to
>act on their talent, ideas and energy to produce tomorrow's leading
>firms. Now in its 14th year, the Competition has awarded hundreds of
>thousands of dollars in cash and business startup services to
>outstanding teams of student entrepreneurs who submitted business plans
>for new ventures showing significant business potential.
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>Our Sponsors include: 
>Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault
>Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels
>Office of Naval Research
>Motorola Ventures
>Adams Capital Management
>Atlas Venture
>Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton
>PricewaterhouseCoopers
>TD Capital Technology Ventures
>Flagship Ventures
>Hale and Dorr
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>MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition - http://50k.mit.edu/