| Program Agenda
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| 8:30-9:00 | Registration and Light Breakfast
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| 9:00-9:05 | Welcome – North Carolina Biotechnology Center
John Richert, Vice President, Business and Technology Development
Rob Lindberg, Director, BATON Program
Amanie Daou, NCCU Law Student and NCBC summer intern
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| 9:05-9:50 | INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY BASICS FOR THE LIFE SCIENCES
Chris Perkins & Arles Taylor, Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor and Hunt, P.A.
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| 9:50- 10:25 | PATENT LANDSCAPE ASSESSMENT, FREEDOM-TO-OPERATE & INFRINGEMENT
Jason Link, Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP
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| 10:25-10:45 | BREAK
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| 10:45-11:45 | To Patent or Not to Patent…that is the Question!
Panel Discussion on Strategic Patenting Approaches
Dean Stell, Office of Technology Asset Management, Wake Forest University Health Sciences
Steven Hultquist, Intellectual Property/Technology Law
Jeff Clark, Aurora Funds, Inc.
Sheila Mikhail, Life Sciences Law, PLLC
Moderator: Bill Wofford, Hutchison Law Group
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| 11:45- 1:30 | LUNCHEON PRESENTATION
Strategic Patenting Case Study: Advanced Liquid Logic
Introduction: Nathan Letts, Patent Attorney
Rich West; President & CEO, Advanced Liquid Logic, Inc.
Bill Barrett, VP of Intellectual Property, Advanced Liquid Logic, Inc. |
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