How to start a Tech Company: IP, Ownership/Equity, Funding, Marketing and other Aspects
Time:
May 20th, 1:00 -5:00 PM
Place:
Columbia University Medical Center,
Hammer Building Room 301
Guest Speakers
Mark Tang
Managing director and partner of Good Health Capital New York
Speech: 10 tips for high tech entrepreneur
Mark Tang is a managing director and partner of Good Health Capital New York, a healthcare private equity firm with offices in Asia and New York. Mark has over two decades of experience in the field of biotechnology as an entrepreneur, educator, advisor and investor. He was formerly a research associate at Rockefeller University, an investment banker, a biotech analyst,and a biotech director at Rutgers Business School. Mark attended University of California, NYU and Harvard University.
Peter Thurlow
IP lawyer at Polsinelli
Peter Thurlow is a highly regarded IP lawyer, currently a shareholder and practice chair at Polsinelli, an Am Law 100 firm with over 800 attorneys and 20 offices. He focuses on presenting strategies to help protect inventors, small businesses, and multinational corporations’intellectual property rights. Peter’s practice involves the full spectrum of patent law. Peter is the current President of the New York Intellectual Property Law Association (NYIPLA), the primary intellectual property law association in New York with more than 1,250 members. Before starting his career path in legal industry, he studied mechanical engineering and worked as an engineer, which was a special experience for him.
Based on Peter’s extensive experience working on matters at the USPTO, he received a second three-year term starting in January 2016 from the U.S. Secretary of Commerce to serve on the USPTO’s Patent Public Advisory Committee (PPAC). The PPAC includes nine experience dpatent practitioners that advise the Undersecretary of Commerce and Director of the USPTO on USPTO patent policies and procedures. Each of the nine PPACmembers chair one PPAC subcommittee. Based on Pete’s significant experience on USPTO post-grant matters, Pete chairs the USPTO’s PTAB subcommittee. The PPAC provides an annual report to the White House, U.S. Commerce Department, House and Senate Judiciary Committees, and the USPTO.
Ruth Jin
Founder of The Jin Law Group
Ruth Jin has extensive experience in corporate and securities laws. Ruth has knowledge in Chinese law, Korean law and Japanese law, and is fluent in these three languages. Ruth’s clients range from entrepreneurs and emerging companies to Fortune 500 companies. She advises businesses through all stages of growth from startups and capital financing right through to initial public offering and counsels on the ongoing securities law compliance and vperiodic reporting obligations.
Prior to founding The Jin Law Group, she worked at the corporate law departments of such major law firms as Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe and McKee Nelson LLP. Ruth has many publications in law journals and often speaks at business roundtables. Ruth was a panelist in the 2005 American Bar Association Section of International Law Spring Meeting on international trade related issues, and was a fellow of the Institute of International Economic Law in Washington, D.C. from 2003 to 2004. Ruth is admitted to practice in New York and Washington, D.C.
More about the Event
In the Entrepreneurship Seminar Series, co-sponsored by the Chinese Association for Science and Technology, Great New York(CAST-GNY) and Sino-American Pharmaceutical Professionals Association (SAPA), leading entrepreneurship speakers come to share their views and experiences.
Polsinelli is a full-service law firm with more than 170 services/industries, 825 attorneys nationwide, 21 offices spanning the country from Los Angeles to Seattle to New York, and with 7 major general practice areas: intellectual property, business litigation, financial services, health care, labor & employment, mid-market corporate and real estate.
The Jin Law Group is a specialized corporate and securities law boutique in New York City founded in 2010. Our legal team includes top-notch lawyers from big law firms with outstanding credentials and a wealth of experience. Each attorney has at least 15 years of experience in their respective practice area. As a small firm, we offer the one-on-one service you will not typically find at a large firm.
We offer strategic legal services for clients ranging from startups and entrepreneurs to venture capital firms, private equity firms and Fortune 500 companies. Our team advises business ventures on the countless legal matters that arise at all stages of their growth and development, including financing, acquisitions, initial public offerings and litigation.