Berkeley IP Practicum

BCLT life sciences law & policy center IP practicum

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Patenting your invention is just one step in moving your technology towards commercialization. You need to ensure that you are not infringing on existing patents that could limit your ability to apply your technology. Ensuring that you have an IP landscape free of obstacles (“freedom to operate”) is crucial to your company’s ability to attract investment, but this work can take many hours of a patent attorney’s time and can be very expensive.   To bridge this gap for early-stage start-up companies, the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology hosts the Berkeley IP Practicum, in which selected companies will work with a team of law students with technical backgrounds and an experienced attorney from a top law firm to perform an IP landscape or freedom-to-operate analysis.

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