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Navigating Patent Landscapes: Staking your Claim and Charting the Waters of your Technology, a Primer

Thursday, April 5, 2007

12:00 to 1:00 PM Higgins House – Great Hall

Pizza and beverages included.

Researchers and technology entrepreneurs can struggle for months or years to turn their breakthrough research or technology into a demonstrable product. Protecting intellectual property behind the technology is important if it goes to market as a product, company, or licensing opportunity. Basic information relating to patent procurement and enforcement, as well as freedom to operate, and other IP issues will be the focus of this workshop.

About the Speaker

Ms. Schray joined Mirick O'Connell, LLP in February 2007 as a member of the Intellectual Property Group. Ms. Schray concentrates her practice in intellectual property law. She has been involved in counseling clients in various aspects of intellectual property, including portfolio management and strategies for filing domestic and foreign patent applications, interference practice, and licensing and other business transactions. She has prepared and prosecuted patent applications, as well as advised clients and prepared patentability, validity and infringement opinions in a diverse range of technologies, including biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, immunology, and medical and pharmaceutical technologies.

Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Schray was an associate at Choate Hall & Stewart, LLP in Boston. She also worked in the legal department at Millennium Pharmaceuticals and was a patent agent at Edwards and Angell, LLP in Boston. Additionally, Ms. Schray was a licensing associate at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center's Office of Commercial Ventures and Intellectual Property.

Ms. Schray is licensed to practice law in Massachusetts and the United States Patent & Trademark Office. Ms. Schray’s full bio can be found at the Mirick O'Connell website. Find her bio by clicking on “Attorneys”, then “Of Counsel”

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