In This Presentation:

- Introduction

- Intellectual Property (IP) Basics

- IP Strategy

- IP Encountered by Health Care Providers

- Securing Ownership of IP Assets

- Managing/Registering IP Rights and Mitigating Infringement Risks

- IP Due Diligence In Business Transactions

- Q&A

- Excerpt from Intellectual Property (IP) Basics:

•A patent only lets the owner of the patent exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, importing or selling the claimed invention

-A patent does not mean you can practice your invention

•Patents protect ideas, rather than creative expression per se

•Defined by federal law

•U.S. Constitution Art. 1, Section 8

•35 U.S.C. § § 101, et. seq.

•37 C.F.R. § § 1.1, et. seq.

•Manual of Patent Examination Procedure (MPEP)

•Limited term (20 years from filing)