When Your Life Sciences Are on the Line: Protecting Your Company’s Most Valuable Asset: Trade Secrets
- - Corporate + Venture Capital, Employment, Financing, Global, Intellectual Property, Litigation, Privacy + Data Security, Regulatory, StartupMoFo partners Kate Driscoll and Nate Mendell launched the MoFo life sciences podcast When Your Life Sciences Are on the Line this week, and Episode 1 is now available. The podcast features interviews with legal experts who share insights and advice you just might... ›
Top Three IP Issues for AgTech Startups
By: Matthew A. Ferry and Edith A. Pierre-Jerome Ph.D.
Innovation, agriculture, and technology took center stage at San Diego’s first AgTech Hackathon. The event took place October 21 – 23 in the city of Escondido, a key farming hub in San Diego County looking to attract agtech startups to the region. The event... ›Navigating Transaction and Licensing Issues in a COVID-19 World and Raising Angel Investments
By: Jim Krenn, Matt Karlyn and Michael Ward Ph.D.
Session 2 of the GSAS Harvard Biotech Club and Morrison & Foerster course on Legal Topics for Scientists, Entrepreneurs, and Start Ups was led by Transactions and Licensing partner Matt Karlyn and focused on how to navigate commercial life sciences transactions and licensing issues... ›GSAS Harvard Biotech Club and Morrison & Foerster’s New Course
By: Andrew Boyd, Alfredo B. D. Silva, Anita Choi and Michael Ward Ph.D.
MoFo & GSAS Harvard Biotech Club’s new course, “ Legal Topics for Scientists, Entrepreneurs, and Start Ups ,” started on November 11, with more than 100 life sciences graduate students, post-docs, and industry professionals. The Harvard Biotech Club is a student organization that seeks to... ›- - Licensing + Commercial, United States, Corporate + Venture Capital, FDA, United Kingdom, Litigation, Startup, Regulatory, Intellectual Property, Announcements
Legal Topics for Scientists, Entrepreneurs, and Start Ups
By: Michael Ward Ph.D., Anita Choi, Andrew Boyd, Alfredo B. D. Silva, Matt Karlyn, Jim Krenn and Matthew A. Chivvis
The GSAS Harvard Biotech Club and Morrison & Foerster course on Legal Topics for Scientists, Entrepreneurs, and Start Ups features a combination of lectures and interactive workshops and is designed for students, post-docs, entrepreneurs, and investors with life sciences and tech backgrounds to learn... › Life Sciences Startup: Top Things to Keep in Mind About Formation and License Agreements
By: Steve Rowles, Matt Karlyn and Michael Ward Ph.D.
During our fifth Patent Law Course session offered by Morrison & Foerster and GSAS Harvard Biotech Club , Steve Rowles , firmwide co-chair of the Emerging Companies & Venture Capital Group , chair of MoFo’s San Diego Corporate Group, and managing partner of the... ›Morrison & Foerster Expands Corporate Capabilities Adding New Corporate Co-Chair Mitchell Presser
By: Mitchell S. Presser
Morrison & Foerster is pleased to announce the continued expansion of its New York office and global Corporate Department capabilities with the arrival of corporate partner Mitchell Presser. He joins the firm as a partner in its Mergers + Acquisitions and Private Equity Investments + Buyouts practices and... ›The New ABC's: Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain and How Each Compliments the Other
By: Vivian L. Hanson
Artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain technology are two novel innovations that offer the opportunity for us to move beyond our legacy systems and streamline enterprise management and compliance in ways previously unimaginable. Each technology augments the strengths and tempers the weaknesses of the other.... ›MoFo Hosts “Israeli Innovation in Healthcare” Event in Palo Alto
By: Shiri V. Shenhav, Bradley D. Wine and Shai Kalansky
Last week, Morrison & Foerster’s Israel practice hosted a program in our Palo Alto office titled, “Israeli Innovation in Healthcare,” in collaboration with the Israel Economic Mission to the West Coast. The program featured Professor Karen Avraham, Vice Dean of Tel Aviv University’s Faculty... ›- - United States, Corporate + Venture Capital, Medical Devices + Diagnostics, Biotech, Pharma, Announcements, Blockchain, Privacy + Data Security
Morrison & Foerster Hosts 2nd Annual Blockchain Healthcare Summit
By: Kristen J. Mathews, Spencer D. Klein and Jonathan Bockman
Five Morrison & Foerster attorneys recently participated in the 2nd Annual Blockchain Healthcare Summit in our New York City office, and provided an overview of the current state of the industry, including a discussion of blockchain-enabled applications for compliance, privacy, practitioner credentialing, patient medical... ›