Intellectual Property is often the only asset a start-up owns and therefore should be carefully protected right from the start. Building a good process and documentation is crucial for Series A and will be very helpful for later financings. Stradley Ronon is a PRIMA sponsor and Patrick Kelly will provide guidance on this topic. Pat is a patent attorney with over twenty years’ experience in life science IP with extensive experience in conducting validity, due diligence, and freedom-to-operate studies; formulating and maintaining biotech IP estates; and preparing and prosecuting patent applications related to the life sciences.

Patent Strategy and Preparation for Investor Due Diligence:

• Inventorship

• Joint inventorship

• Incorrect inventorship

• Inventorship problems

• Ownership

• Avoiding ownership problems

• Funding & Reagents

• Inventor obligations

• Patent Strategy - Markets & Countries

• Patent too narrow or broader

• Patentability and FTO

• Management of IP