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Create Your Legal Toolkit

 11/13/2019
 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM (PST)
Closed - the wait list is empty
 11/13/2019 8:00 AM (PST)
No Fee

Jenefeness Tucker (206) 439-3785
WeWork Labs - 14th Floor 1411 4th Avenue, Seattle WA 98101

Business Plan, Disaster Planning/Recovery, Legal Issues, Managing a Business, Risk Management

Confused about legal paperwork? Have a new product idea and worried about next steps? Attorney fees too high for your small business budget? Don't know what's needed for your business entity? Want some simple checklists for Intellectual Property? Need to know when to Trademark vs. Copyright vs. Patent? Don't know if you need an NDA vs. Partnership Agreement?

 
Come get your questions answered with the following attorneys
  • Michael Avent; specializes in the tech, biotech, manufacturing, and educational tech sectors. His experience includes operating agreements, NDAs, licensing agreements, employment agreements, and more. He works with venture capital investors and emerging growth companies throughout the corporate life cycle, with extensive experience representing top corporate venture groups. 
  • Scott Smith; the Copyright & Trademark Manager at CoMotion at University of Washington. They offer mentorship and partner with the UW Law School on their Entrepreneurial Law Clinic, which teams students with pro bono attorneys and business advisors.
  • Krista Wittman; specializes in all areas of intellectual property law, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, licensing, and litigation support. Her patent practice covers a wide range of technologies, including web-based software applications, data management and classification, data visualization, data security, digital alerts, communication infrastructure, visual social communication, teleconferencing systems, digital encoding, surface plasmon resonance sensors, medical device authentication, and automated patent management systems. 
  • Lonnie Rosenwald; Lonnie has deep and broad experience in innovations that are reshaping the technology industry, law and investments. She has developed and led high-performing teams that deliver results in both Fortune 50 and start-up environments. Before launching 300degrees, she served as vice president and lead counsel for patent funds that create and commercialize inventions at Intellectual Ventures, the pioneer in patent fund management. While at Intellectual Ventures, she founded legal structures to enable the commercialization of patents, and helped launch numerous startups and investment funds, including a fourth generation nuclear power company, several communications companies based on metamaterials technology, a fund that collaborates with the Gates Foundation to develop products for the developing world, and a scientific lab.


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