Seminars
Gateway Seminar - Life Sciences related IP matters
Three well recognized patent attorneys/agent from Burns & Levinson LLP will be providing attendees with an overview of intellectual property as well as details with respect to patent claim construction and various aspects of protecting chemical/biotechnology and life sciences inventions.
Thursday, February 7, 2008
1:00 - 2:30 pm
Life Sciences and Bioengineering Center at Gateway Park
Seminar Room (1002)
Scheduled speakers:
Jacob (Jesse) N. Erlich, Esq., a partner at Burns and Levinson and a WPI graduate, will be presenting an overview of the various forms of intellectual property: trade secrets, patents, copyrights and trademarks. The presentation will focus on a comparison of these various forms of intellectual property protection and which form of intellectual property protection is best suited for an inventor and the university.
Dr. Janine M. Susan, Esq., and Dr. Yakov Korkhin will be presenting an analysis of patent claim construction, especially relating to the fields of chemistry, biotechnology and the life sciences. They will also provide a review of recent cases dealing with patents.
All three will be available to answer questions after their presentations.
Dr. Mike Manning, Director of Technology Transfer at WPI, will also be on hand to answer any WPI technology transfer questions.
"Quantifying the Cell-Material Interface Using FRET and Modeling"
Friday, November 2, 2007
3:30 - 4:30 PM
Life Sciences & Bioengineering Center at Gateway Park
Room 1002
David Mooney, Ph.D.
Division of Engineering and Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard University
"Engineering a Biological Pacemaker"
Thursday, October 25, 2007
3:00 - 4:00 PM
Life Sciences & Bioengineering Center at Gateway Park
Room 1002
Ira S. Cohen, MD, Ph.D.
Leading Professor of Physiology & Biophysics, Medicine and Biomedical Engineering
Director - Institute of Molecular Cardiology
SUNY Stony Brook
"Life in the Age of Risk Management"
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
12:00 - 1:00 PM
Salisbury Labs 105
Dr. Kimberly M. Thompson
Associate Professor of Risk Analysis and Decision Science and Director,
Kids Risk Project
Harvard School of Public Health and
MIT Sloan School of Management (Visitor '05-'07)
Abstract: Using humor and real life examples that are relevant to broad audiences, Professor Kimberly Thompson will suggest that we should recognize the increasingly important role of risk management in our professional and personal lives. She will demonstrate the hazards of failing to consider the real differences between individuals that matter when making public policy decisions, and talk about how to become empowered by uncertainty, instead of paralyzed by it. The talk will cover a wide range of current technologies and issues, and discuss the need for improving how individuals and groups deal with risk in today's uncertain and complex world.
Bio: Professor Thompson's research interests and teaching focus on the issues related to developing and applying quantitative methods for risk assessment and risk management, and consideration of the implications associated with including uncertainty, variability, and time in risk characterization. Drawing on a diverse background, she seeks to effectively integrate technological, social, political, legal, and economic issues into analyses that improve decisions. Professor Thompson works with a number of companies on strategy, risk management, and communication. Much of her work focuses on children. As Associate Professor of Risk Analysis and Decision Science at the Harvard School of Public Health, she created and directs the Kids Risk Project (www.kidsrisk.harvard.edu), which aims to empower kids, parents, policy makers, and others to make better decisions when managing children's risks. This work builds on Professor Thompson's long-standing interest in the issues related to variability in risk, and the need to consider the potential risk tradeoffs associated with different policies and management strategies. Her research spans a range of children's risks including injury, environmental, medical, and product-related risks, as well as perception of children's risks and the portrayal of risky behaviors in popular entertainment media. Professor Thompson's work currently focuses heavily on system dynamics and dynamic modeling, particularly in the context of modeling policies for polio risk management after the success of global eradication. She is currently a visiting Associate Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Dr. Thompson received her Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Chemical Engineering from MIT and her Doctor of Science Degree from the Harvard School of Public Health. She is the author of Risk In Perspective: Insight and Humor in the Age of Risk Management (2004) (www.AORM.com).
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