Prior Events

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The (Non)Economic Production of Social Production
Clay Shirkey, Professor, NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program.
Webcast

Launching IT Startups
 Lee McKnight, Founder, CTO, Board of Directors, Wireless Grids Corp.
Sam Lessin, CEO, drop.io.
Webcast

Finiancing IT Startup
Owen Davis, Managing Director, NYC Seed
Marcene Sonneborn, Pres., Innovation Management Consulting; SBIR Specialist.
Jim Kollegger, Chairman, CEO, Genesys Partners.
Webcast.

Industry IT Needs of Tomorrow
Daniel Schutzer, President, Financial Services Technology Consortium.
Steven Neiman, Executive Director, VP, High Performance Computing, JPMorgan Chase.
Webcast.

Current State of IT/R&D and Conference Close
Daniel Shutzer, President, Financial Services Technology Consortium.
Vincent Tomaselli, Deputy Director, Columbia Center for Advanced Information Management.
Webcast.

New Developments in Patent Law 
George McGuire, Member and Chairman, Intellectual Property Group, Bond, Schoeneck & King PLLC
Video, Powerpoint                                                  
 
Managing R & D Projects 
Richard Newman, Adjunct Professor of Law, Syracuse University; Visiting Lecturer, Cornell University; Retired VP for Research, Welch Allyn
Video, Powerpoint                                                
 
 
Establishing First to Invent & Electronic Lab Note books
Lisa Dolak, Professor of Law, Syracuse University College of Law
Video, Powerpoint       
 
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WEBCAST: Standford v. Roche
Presented by The firm Hoffman Warnick LLC.
Attorneys Carl Ruoff and David Rook will speak about the September 30,2009 decision by the Federal Circuit in Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, et. Al v. Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. et al. The Court found that Stanford does not have rights to the patents that arose from its inventors' endeavors. The holdings in this decision have important implications for the university environment, both the institution and the faculty/researcher inventors.
Video, powerpoint

Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Information Industry
A conference bringing together entrepreneurs, investors, researhers, information managers and university technology transfer officers for a day long exploration of the Information Industry today.
  • Launching Information Technology Startups: What are the challenges and opportunities?
  • Financing Information Technology Startups: Where does the money come from?
  • Future Directions in the Information Industry: What are the information needs of tomorrow?
  • Research in Information Sciences: What is in the information research pipeline?


Commercializing University Inventions: Case Studies

Skaneateles, New York

November 2008

 

The Conference focused on the challenge of transforming university inventions into commercially viable products. The Conference highlighted successful early-stage, New York companies, and how they manage the multiple technical, market, financial, and legal challenges inherent in bringing science to market. The early-stage CEOs and companies profiled were: Allen Barnett, CEO, Kinex Pharmaceuticals, LLC, Patrick Govang, President, e2e Materials, LLC; John Hart, President, Lumetrics, Inc.; Richard Richmond, CEO, SiMPore Inc. and Brad Treat, CEO, Mezmeriz, Inc. The CEOs described commercialization challenges their companies have faced and how they have addressed the challenges including the role of university technology transfer managers, research scientists and engineers, marketing and sales personnel, financial advisors and investors, and intellectual property and transactional lawyers. The keynote address was given by Professor Duncan Moore, Vice Provost for Entrepreneurship at the University of Rochester and a renowned authority on the commercialization of new technologies.

Videos of the presentation may be viewed here.

 

University / Industry Sponsored Research - Opportunities and Obstacles (Documents)
Skaneateles, New York
June 2006
 
The conference focussed on the growing tension in the university/industry sponsored research relationship.  Corporations are investing less in university sponsored research, choosing instead to perform research in-house or to sponsor research at foreign universitis, often in China or India.
 
The conference considered in detail, the problems in the university-industry sponsored research relations from academic and corporate perspectives.  In the first session, Jeong Han Oh, associate director of the New York State Science and Technology Law Center presented background statistical information on research and development in the United States.  Also, Rich Newman, adjunct professor in the NYS-STLC and Vice President for Advanced Solutions at Welch Allyn, presented the results of two research projects undertaken by the NYS-STLC on university/industry sponsored research.  In the second session, Mark Crowell from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill considered the academic perspective on industry sponsored research.  The keynote address was given by Carl Schramm, President of the Ewing Marian Kauffman Foundation.

Business Side of Patents (Documents)
October 2005
New York City, New York

  • Lita Nelsen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
  • Jennifer Helen Hartt (University of Pennsylvania)
  • David M. Kether (Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
  • Jane Muir (University of Florida)   

Building Sound Patent Practices (Documents)
May 2005
Buffalo, New York

  • Robert P. Simpson (Simpson & Simpson, PLLC)
  • George R. McGuire (Bond, Schoenect & King, PLC)
  • Katherine J. Strandburg (DePaul University College of Law)
  • Ranjana Kadle (Hodgson Russ LLP)