IP: What You Need to Know to Protect Your Business
How can you build intellectual property into your plans as you start, build and grow your business? Learn about patents and trademarks directly from the top leaders at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and others, who can tell you about the importance of IP in obtaining early stage funding, navigating the IP process, and leveraging IP for success domestically and abroad. More than ever, in today’s fast moving and disruptive market, patents and trademarks are integral in any entrepreneur’s business plan to protect their products and services from creation to commercialization.
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Jacob Choi
United States Patent and Trademark Office

Gabriella Draney Zielke
Tech Wildcatters

Eric Gould Bear
Curb

Megan Hoyt
United States Patent & Trademark Office