Event Detail

The Entrepreneurs Forum/Talking Business Series 2013 - Maintaining "IP Freedom" - Avoid Entangling your IP in Legacy Deals

Frequently, high tech start-ups and SMEs use their valuable IP as bargaining chips in business tie-ups with larger business partners or to win crucial business from important customers. Beneficial in the short run, but there is risk too – a reduction in the value of the company in the eyes of future acquirers and investors. This month, The Entrepreneurs Forum/Talking Business Series 2013 will hold a hands on / legal clinic type event with David Case, an IP partner at White & Case Tokyo. The event will cover topics of identifying and protecting your IP. As a learning tool, David will share with attendees war stories, horror stories and anecdotes from VC investment and strategic M&A matters. He will also provide tips for companies to consider before entering into business tie-ups that involve selling off part of their IP.

This session is best suited for start-ups and SME's that use or will use their IP portfolio in third party arrangements to grow their business. Key topics will be:

• Forms of IP
• Identifying your IP
• Protecting your IP
• How VCs and others evaluate your IP
• IPs tied in knots
• Strategies for outbound licensing
• Strategies for inbound licensing

David Case is an intellectual property and information technology attorney with more than 20 years of business and legal experience in the field of IP and IT. He represents a wide variety of established and start-up technology companies. David has also spent most of the last 22 years living and working in Japan. He is a member of the NY Bar Association and a registered foreign attorney in Japan. He is currently the Chair of the ACCJ IP Committee. David was Co-Chair of the ACCJ's Privacy Law Task Force.

NOTE: This meeting is OFF THE RECORD