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CTL Office Hours – Plant Breeding (Ithaca & Geneva) with Jess Stein

Jess Stein, Sr. Licensing & Business Development Officer, will be available to meet during her office hours at Cornell AgriTech in Geneva, NY. She will be there to answer questions about what CTL does, licensing, disclosures, plant patents, plant variety protection (PVP), trademarks, etc.

CTL IP Series 1: Understanding the Technology Transfer Process

For this first virtual meeting of the IP series, the Center for Technology Licensing (CTL) team will present the technology transfer process at Cornell and will outline:

  • The groups at CTL and the services offered to the research community
  • University Technology Transfer – Bayh Dole
  • Patent Law Primer
  • Marketing and Evaluating Your Invention

CTL IP Series 2: What is Patent Eligible in the U.S.?

For this second virtual meeting of the IP series, Dr. John D. Lopinski, Partner at Hodgson Russ LLP, will present an overview of patent eligible subject matter and will provide some examples to illustrate issues related to patent eligibility.

 

Dr. John D. Lopinski will be joined by Bill Pegg, Associate Director for IP at CTL.

 

Topics includes:

  • Overview of patent eligible subject matter
  • Challenges in obtaining patent eligibility in Life Sciences (e.g., Diagnostics, Antibodies, etc.)
  • Challenges in obtaining patent eligibility in Physical Sciences (e.g., Electronics, Encryption, Blockchain, Crypto, Software, etc.)

Weill Digital Health Series #3: Securing Financing and the Founders Experience

Investment in the U.S. digital health sector has significantly increased from $7.5B in 2019 to $14.1B in funding in 2020 . With that number in mind, in the last session of the series, we bring together founders and investors to discuss the increased investors’ interest in digital health innovations, the investment opportunities, and the founders’ experience in this sector.