Importance of IP Protection and Infringement
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USF CONNECT in collaboration with the National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship (NACCE) introduces a four-part series: Getting to Know Your Business. In this third part, we explore the truth and importance of intellectual property protection and infringement and its critical relevance to entrepreneurs and small businesses, by CoreX Legal.
In today's fast-paced and competitive business landscape, your ideas, innovations, and creations are your most valuable assets. Protecting them is not just a legal necessity but a strategic imperative. This must-attend webinar delves deep into the world of Intellectual Property (IP) to equip you with the knowledge and insights needed to secure your intellectual assets and navigate the complex waters of IP infringement.
In a world where ideas and innovation drive success, understanding the importance of IP protection is paramount. This presentation will empower you with the knowledge and tools to protect your intellectual assets, make informed decisions, and stay ahead in your industry.
Don't miss this opportunity to strengthen your grasp of IP protection and infringement, ensuring that your innovations remain safe and your business thrives. Reserve your spot today and take the first step toward securing your creative and innovative future.
Who Should Attend:
- Entrepreneurs and startups looking to secure their innovations
- Business owners and executives responsible for IP strategy
- Inventors, creators, and artists wanting to protect their work
- Legal professionals seeking to expand their knowledge of IP
- Anyone interested in the intersection of innovation, law, and business
For More Information:
Brent Britton
Brent C.J. Britton is a Founding Partner of Core X Legal. Since the early 1990s, Britton has been assisting entrepreneurs and technology companies of all sizes in corporate and intellectual property transactions. A dot-com era Silicon Valley veteran, Britton’s legal career has included tours of duty in several major firms in San Francisco, New York City, and Tampa. In his third year out of law school, Britton founded the noted San Francisco technology law firm, Britton, Silberman & Cervantez, LLP, which was later acquired by Thelen Reid & Priest, LLP. Britton has been a prominent voice for the cultivation of Tampa’s entrepreneurial ecosystem while maintaining strong roots in the San Francisco Bay Area’s emerging companies community.
Britton’s clients range from startups to international conglomerates in the fields of digital media and software development, video games, AI, virtual reality, data analytics, education, mechanical devices, entertainment, telecommunications, healthcare, cybersecurity, blockchain, and cryptocurrency. Britton’s legal work covers a full range of services of value to technology companies, such as corporate formation, venture funding, technology licensing and transactions, intellectual property strategy and prosecution (patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets), due diligence and auditing, innovation lifecycle management, mergers & acquisitions, website policies and terms of service, sweepstakes and gambling rules and procedures, privacy, data security, GDPR, employment agreements, responding to employee claims of hostile workplace or wrongful termination, digital token sales, and a broad spectrum of regulatory advice.
While in law school in the early 90’s, Britton was the founding Editor in Chief of the B.U. School of Law Journal of Science and Technology Law, and he also clerked for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. A former computer scientist and software engineer, Britton is the only lawyer who holds a graduate degree from the MIT Media Laboratory. Alongside his Master of Science from MIT, Britton also holds a Bachelor of Arts in computer science from the University of Maine and a Juris Doctor from the Boston University School of Law. Britton is admitted to practice law in California, New York, and Florida. He has been an adjunct professor of Creativity and Innovation at the University of South Florida and the University of Tampa. He is the co-founder of several startups, and he writes and speaks frequently on entrepreneurship, creativity, ethics, and the philosophy of happiness and success. Britton’s book, “Ownability,” an introduction to intellectual property law, is available on amazon.com.
CoreX Legal - About the Firm
We’re technology lawyers serving companies that make technology, as well as companies that use technology. We are skilled lawyers with engineering cred, entrepreneurial experience, and business acumen. Our lawyers have been in your shoes and walked your journey. For entrepreneurs and startups, we provide a
full suite of commercial legal services, from startup to exit. For established companies, we augment your existing legal counsel by providing specialized technology law services: software licensing, data privacy, intellectual property, internet agreements, web3, AR/VR, regulatory compliance.
At CoreX Legal, we have an intimate understanding of the issues and goals arising in transactions involving intellectual property and technology. We are skilled at the entire lifecycle of innovation: from managing creativity and creative problem solving, to corporate governance and capital transactions, to invention disclosure and value recovery, to IP auditing and due diligence, to IP prosecution and licensing, to complex commercial transactions of all kinds.