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IAP 2013 Activities by Category - Law and Legal Issues

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10 Things Every Parent Should Know: Protecting and Planning for your Children

Mark Porter '05, Certified Financial Planner

Jan/10 Thu 12:30PM-01:30PM 4-237

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required

Becoming a parent is a joyous and life altering event. It can also have a serious impact on your finances. How can you best protect your children? How can you best plan for their future? Come learn the essentials from Mark Porter '05, certified financial planner, and Brian Mahoney, Esq. on topics such as:

• Wills
• Emergency and Permanent Guardianship Provisions
• Trusts
• Education Savings Options
• Life Insurance
• Disability Insurance


The seminar itself will last 60 minutes and then Brian and Mark will be available for questions.

Register today!

Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU


10 Things Every Young Parent Should Know: Protecting and Planning for your Children

Mark Porter '05, Certified Financial Planner, Brian Mahoney, Esq.

Jan/16 Wed 01:30PM-02:30PM 4-237

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required

10 Things Every Parent Should Know: Protecting and Planning for your Children

Becoming a parent is a joyous and life altering event. It can also have a serious impact on your finances. How can you best protect your children? How can you best plan for their future? Come learn the essentials from Mark Porter '05, certified financial planner, and Brian Mahoney, Esq. on topics such as:

• Wills
• Emergency and Permanent Guardianship Provisions
• Trusts
• Education Savings Options
• Life Insurance
• Disability Insurance


The seminar itself will last 60 minutes and then Brian and Mark will be available for questions.

Register today!

Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98, 617-252-1143, ebyrne@mit.edu


Alumni Talk with Andrew Sudbury 00, MBA 02

Andrew Sudbury 00, MBA 02, VP of Security Metrics, ABINE

Jan/16 Wed 07:00PM-08:00PM 32-141

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required

Don't Track Me Bro!  These days you hear a lot about online tracking. Have you ever wondered about how much tracking is going on, and why?  What's this Do Not Track Header and what does it do?  

Come learn about the current state of online tracking.  We'll examine the online tracking industry that drives the data collection for advertising and customer analytics.  Marvel at how you are being tracked, see what is done with the information and discover how you can choose to not be tracked.  We'll also talk about some of the legal and economic issues around tracking and the free Internet.

Andrew Sudbury '00, MBA '02
Andrew received an MBA from MIT Sloan and a SB from MIT. As part of the MIT community, Andrew has been a judge for the MITES business plan contest for local high-school students and the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for innovation. He still can't use any kind of Linux but Slackware, and is a two-wheeled enthusiast.

Register Today!

Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU


Alumni Talk with BC Krishna SM 94

BC Krishna SM 94, President and CEO, MineralTree, Inc.

Jan/15 Tue 07:00PM-08:00PM 32-141

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required

Financial Fraud

BC will share his experiences as the founder and CEO of fraud detection software company Memento. The fast-paced session will cover a broad range of topics, including, but not limited to: 

  1. Bank fraud that you have never heard about: insidious, expensive, and, never talked about.
  2. Why fraud persists, and why it is so hard to address.
  3. It’s not about the technology and algorithms, but all the real-world crap.

At Memento, BC also spent time looking into the world of Health Care fraud, and another nasty, insidious problem that does not get enough attention: Prescription Fraud. This is the systematic, significant, expensive abuse of prescription drugs like Oxycodone, Oxycontin, Fentanyl, and Suboxone. Time permitting, he will share some of his findings addressing Prescription Fraud.

The session will use case studies and examples. Attendees should expect to walk away angry, foaming at the mouth, and hopefully inspired to study the topic more and do something about it.

Register today!

Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU


Are You In or Out? An Overview of the Material Transfer Process @ MIT

Vibhu Sachdev, Associate Licensing Officer

Jan/24 Thu 12:00PM-01:30PM Room 3-133, Please register at: http://tlo.mit.edu/iapevents

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up

The transfer of materials into and out of MIT is steadily increasing each year. Moreover, the providers and recipients for these materials are diversifying. Material Transfer Agreements (MTAs) are legal contracts that ensure all parties are permitted to send and receive biological materials, chemical compounds, and other materials. MTAs protect MIT’s intellectual property and freedom to publish, and MTAs record the terms and conditions for the use of the materials. Come and hear members of the Technology Licensing Office discuss MIT's material transfer process. Gain a better understanding of MTAs, MIT’s procedures and policies for MTAs, and how to get your materials expeditiously. Refreshments will be served. Please register at: http://tlo.mit.edu/iapevents

Sponsor(s): Technology Licensing Office
Contact: Kikuyu Daniels, NE18-501, 3-6966, kdaniels@mit.edu


Basics of Copyright and Software Intellectual Property

Daniel Dardani

Jan/22 Tue 12:00PM-02:00PM 3-133, Please register by following the link provided.

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up

Ever wanted to pen a novel or code a video game? Maybe you are an artist or architect? Copyright law affects musicians, photographers, and software developers alike. As such, copyrights offer unique and fun protection for your works of authorship created while at MIT. Join Dan Dardani, Technology Licensing Officer and Coordinator of Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab in an overview of the copyright -- its history, use, and relevance to the MIT Community as a form of intellectual property. We will explore the nature of originality, doctrine of fair use, how copyrights mesh with the digital age, and more. All are welcomed.  Please register at: http://tlo.mit.edu/iapevents

Sponsor(s): Technology Licensing Office
Contact: Kikuyu Daniels, NE18-501, 617 253-6966, KDANIELS@MIT.EDU


Basics of Obtaining a Patent

Howard Silver, MIT Libraries, Jack Turner, Technology Licensing Office

Jan/23 Wed 02:00PM-03:30PM 4-231

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/23
Limited to 50 participants

Come and hear Jack Turner, Associate Director of the MIT Technology Licensing Office and patent attorney Sam Pasternak, recently of Choate, Hall and Stewart and now at the TLO, discuss the ins and outs of obtaining patents. This popular session covers a bit of patent history and a lot about current practices, processes, and issues surrounding obtaining a patent; the focus is on the process used at MIT for ideas/inventions developed by the MIT community. A portion of the session is devoted to questions and answers. If you think you will ever invent something, you need to be here.

 

Please Register

Sponsor(s): Libraries, Technology Licensing Office
Contact: Howard Silver, 14S-134, 617 253-9319, HSILVER@MIT.EDU


Creating a Non-Profit Enterprise

Janet Rickershauser, Senior Lawyer, Charles L. Cooney, Robert T. Haslam (1911) Professor of Chemical Engineering, Alyssa Fitzgerald, Lawyer

Jan/31 Thu 01:00PM-03:30PM E70, 12ft Floor

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/04
Prereq: None

Not all teams achieve impact by creating a for-profit enterprise.  Organizations like Ashoka, MITx, New Profit, and The Robin Hood Foundation are organized and reach their target audiences as non-profit organizations.

The seminar will enable members of the MIT community to further their understanding of how 501(c)(3) status can help them better deploy their technologically-based projects, and is open to students, faculty, and staff who have practical questions about how to organize and operate a non-profit. 

Sue Abbott, Janet Rickershauser, and Alyssa Fitzgerald, core attorneys in the Tax-Exempt Organizations practice group at Goodwin Procter LLP, a Boston-based Am Law 50 firm, serve the legal needs of many of the Greater Boston Area’s most prominent non-profits. 

Since the inception of these free seminars in 2003, we have provided the legal tools for achieving and maintaining 501(c)(3) status to over 1400 organizations in the Boston area. 

Over the 2.5 hour seminar, we propose to cover:

 

Sponsor(s): Chemical Engineering
Contact: Jose Estabil, E70-1270, 617 253-5978, JJE@MIT.EDU


Cybersecurity: People, Process and Technology

Everardo Ruiz SM '00, Intellectual Ventures, Col. Robert Banks

Jan/30 Wed 10:00AM-12:00PM E62-221

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required

The tools for Cybersecurity are shifting from Protection and Detection toward Tolerance and Survivability.  As Malware numbers, attacks, cost, and fix timelines all explode,  it has become clear that advances in Cybersecurity technology have outpaced similar advances in People and current Processes. Should we move beyond isolated patch fixes and automated islands towards fail safe protection?   Can we align dependent circles...and what can we do till then?   Is this simply a technology discussion?  A presentation based on several decades of industry, telecom, and government perspectives will debate these issues.

Register today!

Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU


Employment Regulations for F-1 Students

Janka Moss, International Student Advisor

Jan/25 Fri 12:00PM-01:30PM 4-163

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Repeating event, particpants welcome at any session

This seminar will focus on on/off campus work and employment for practical training allowed by current immigration regulations for F-1 visa holders.

Sponsor(s): International Students Office
Contact: Antoinette Browne, 5-133, x3-3795, ajames@mit.edu


Fair Use & E-Reserves

Ellen Duranceau, Program Manager, Scholarly Publishing & Licensing, Roshni Gohil, Coordinator for Reserves and Student Hiring

Jan/22 Tue 02:00PM-03:00PM 14N-132

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/22
Limited to 30 participants

Are you teaching or supporting a class this spring and want to learn more about copyright and electronic reserves on Stellar?

We’ll give you an overview of the latest understanding of US copyright law’s fair use provisions as it applies to materials posted to course management systems like Stellar. We’ll discuss the federal ruling on the Georgia State University e-reserves case and the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries. Then we’ll share best practices for posting to Stellar, and how the Libraries can help with your e-reserves.

Staff from the MIT Libraries’ Office of Scholarly Publishing & Licensing and Course Reserves Team will be available to answer questions.

Register at: http://libcal.mit.edu/events

Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Roshni Gohil, 14S-100, 617 253-2283, RGOHIL@MIT.EDU


J-1 Student Visa Workshop

Aurora Brule, International Student Advisor

Jan/29 Tue 12:00PM-01:30PM 4-145

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up

The International Students Office will present a workshop focusing on employment regulations, medical insurance, and the two-year home residency requirement for J-1 students as outlined by the United States Information Agency.

Sponsor(s): International Students Office
Contact: Antoinette Browne, 5-133, x3-3795, ajames@mit.edu


non-book club - book club (n-bc-bc) 2013

Laura Schmitz

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions

Like Book Clubs? But hate the time commitment? This non-book club-book club is easy and painless. n-bc-bc will meet four times during the third week of IAP and will discuss topics related to different types of gender violence in our culture. Each evening a discussion will be sparked by two short articles, book excerpts or movie clips. Food and drinks provided!

View or download n-bc-bc materials at: web.mit.edu/end_violence/

Discussion Topics:

Monday January 21: [Un]Scientific Apologies: How Science Colors Views on Sexual Violence.

Tuesday January 22: Broken System: Failures of Institutions to Serve Survivors and Discipline Rapists.

Wednesday January 23: Speaking Up: Responses to Slut Shaming and Rape Culture

Thursday Januray 24: Policy: White Men Debate the Fate of Vagina Owners

Sponsor(s): Women's and Gender Studies, Technology and Culture Forum
Contact: Laura Schmitz, W11-011, (617) 253-0108, lschmitz@mit.edu


non book club - book club

Jan/21 Mon 07:00PM-09:00PM TBD
Jan/22 Tue 07:00PM-09:00PM Location TBD
Jan/23 Wed 07:00PM-09:00PM Location TBD
Jan/24 Thu 07:00PM-09:00PM Location TBD

Laura Schmitz


Patent Searching Fundamentals

Howard Silver

Jan/16 Wed 01:00PM-02:00PM 14N-132

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/16
Limited to 40 participants

You won’t come out of this session qualified to be a patent attorney, but you will be able to successfully find patent references from all over the world and know how to obtain patent text and diagrams. The session will be a hands-on practicum that will help de-mystify the patent literature and expose attendees to key resources for finding patents.

Please register for this session.

Sponsor(s): Libraries, Technology Licensing Office
Contact: Howard Silver, 14S-134, 617 253-9319, HSILVER@MIT.EDU


Patents & Pizza: Careers in Intellectual Property Law

Amanda Peters, Career Development Specialist

Jan/17 Thu 05:00PM-07:00PM 4-163

Enrollment: Registration required through CareerBridge

Learn from MIT alums working in patent law about careers that let you stay abreast of the newest technologies. By working in the field of intellectual property, you can make a career of patenting, protecting, licensing, and valuing the most recent technological discoveries! Topics discussed will include an overview of intellectual property rights available to inventors, a day-in-the-life of patent attorneys, and a discussion of how intellectual property rights are protected in the realms of academia and industry.

Pizza for this event will be sponsored by iRobot. Preregistration requested on CareerBridge.

Panelists:

Glen Weinstein, Senior Vice President & General Counsel at iRobot Corporation

Kristin Smith, Associate at Beyer Law Group

Alex Wissner-Gross, Founder of Enernetics, Inc. and Gemedy, Inc.

Clay Satow, Patent Counsel at Bose Corporation

Renee Fuller, Technology Specialist at Wolf Greenfield

Sponsor(s): Global Education and Career Development
Contact: Amanda Peters, 12-170, (617) 253-4733, acpeters@mit.edu


Protect your Invention & Turn it Into a Startup!

Christopher Noble

Jan/23 Wed 12:00PM-01:30PM 3-133, Please register at http://tlo.mit.edu/iapevents

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up

 You've invented something really cool. Now can you protect it and create a company around it? Come and hear Christopher Noble, Technology Licensing Officer of the MIT Technology Licensing Office.  Learn How and When to file a patent (and if you need to); how your startup can spin the invention out from MIT and get that coveted “exclusive license”; how MIT’s Technology Licensing Office can help you (and what they want from you); and what your investors are looking for when they ask the question: “Tell me about your IP”. Please register at: http://tlo.mit.edu/iapevents

Sponsor(s): Technology Licensing Office
Contact: Kikuyu Daniels, NE18-501, 617 253-6966, KDANIELS@MIT.EDU


Responsible and Ethical Conduct at MIT

Deborah L. Fisher, Institute Auditor, Toni P. Robinson, Ombudsperson, Mark DiVincenzo, Deputy General Counsel, Marianna Pierce, Director, Policy, Compliance, and Labor Relations

Jan/24 Thu 10:00AM-11:00AM 32-141

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Prereq: none

MIT as an institution and a community maintains high ethical values and standards; these are embodied in the Institute’s Statement of Responsible and Ethical Conduct.

This session will review these longstanding policies, and describe ways for members of the community to obtain answers to questions or raise concerns about conduct that may not be consistent with these values and standards.

The respective roles of the Ombuds Office, the Office of the General Counsel, Human Resources, the Audit Division and the Institute’s Anonymous and Confidential Reporting System (“hotline”) will be covered in this session.

 

Sponsor(s): Audit Division, Presidents Office, MIT Human Resources
Contact: John Dvorak, NE49-3021, 617 452-3577, DVORAK@MIT.EDU


Theses@MIT: specifications and copyright issues

Ellen Finnie Duranceau, Program Manager, Scholarly Publishing & Licensing, Mikki Simon MacDonald, Metadata archivist

Jan/18 Fri 12:00PM-01:00PM 14N-132

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/14
Prereq: none

This session will cover the required specifications for submitting your thesis, and review some common copyright questions related to theses, including whether you need permission to use certain figures in your thesis, and what is involved when you want to publish parts of your thesis before or after the thesis is submitted.

Offered by Mikki Simon MacDonald from the Institute Archives, who oversees thesis processing, and Ellen Finnie Duranceau, from the MIT Libraries’ Office of Scholarly Publishing & Licensing, who handles copyright and publishing questions for the MIT community.

 

Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Ellen Duranceau, 14S-216, 617 253-8483, EFINNIE@MIT.EDU


Using Images in your work: A look at fair use, open licensing, copyright, and identifying and citing images

Ellen Finnie Duranceau, Program Manager, Scholarly Publishing & Licensing, Jolene de Verges, Images specialist and Digital Project & Metadata Manager

Jan/11 Fri 12:00PM-01:00PM 14N-132

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/10
Prereq: none

This session will provide information about how to assess whether use of a particular image requires permission or is “fair use,” how to find images already flagged for reuse, and good practices for identifying and citing images.  Directed at authors of theses, journal articles, blogs, and other scholarly writing.

 Presented by Ellen Finnie Duranceau, copyright contact and Program Manager for Scholarly Publishing & Licensing in the MIT Libraries, and  Jolene de Verges, images specialist and Digital Project & Metadata Manager in the MIT Libraries

Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Ellen Duranceau, 14S-216, 617 253-8483, EFINNIE@MIT.EDU


Working After Graduation: Immigration Concerns

Boston Immigration Attorney

Feb/01 Fri 12:00PM-01:30PM 1-190

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up

A Boston attorney, specializing in immigration, will present a seminar focusing on rules regulating employment opportunities after graduation for international graduates.

Sponsor(s): International Students Office
Contact: Antoinette Browne, 5-133, x3-3795, ajames@mit.edu