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IAP 2015 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

Add to Calendar Jan/07 Wed 04:00PM-05:00PM 32-124

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.

Add to Calendar Jan/15 Thu 12:00PM-01:00PM 32-124

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


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

Emily Moscati, MTA Associate Officer

Add to Calendar Jan/09 Fri 10:00AM-11:30AM 66-160

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 join Emily Moscati to learn about 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.

Please register at: http://tlo.mit.edu/iapevents or email kmkhalil@mit.edu  

Sponsor(s): Technology Licensing Office
Contact: Katrina Khalil-Iannetti, NE18-501, 617 253-6966, kmkhalil@mit.edu


Basics of Copyright and Software Intellectual Property

Daniel Dardani

Add to Calendar Jan/13 Tue 12:00PM-01:45PM 3-133

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up

Ever wanted to pen a novel or code a video game?

Maybe you are an artist or an architect?

Copyright issues affect musicians, photographers, and software developers alike. As such, copyrights offer a unique and fun look at the protection of your works of authorship whether created at MIT or elsewhere.

Join Daniel Dardani, Technology Licensing Officer and IP Coordinator of MIT’s Game Lab for an overview of Copyright law and issues, including its history, use, and relevance to the MIT Community as one form of intellectual property. Daniel will explore the nature of originality, doctrine of fair use, how copyrights function in the digital age, and more. All are welcomed. Please register at: http://tlo.mit.edu/iapevents”, or email kmkhalil@mit.edu 

 The event is Co-Sponsored by the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 

Sponsor(s): Technology Licensing Office
Contact: Katrina Khalil-Iannetti, NE18-501, 617 253-6966, KMKHALIL@MIT.EDU


Basics of Obtaining a Patent

Anne Graham, Civil & Environmental Engineering Librarian

Add to Calendar Jan/26 Mon 03:00PM-04:30PM 4-163

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/26
Limited to 80 participants

Come and hear Jack Turner, Associate Director of the MIT Technology Licensing Office and patent attorney Sam Pasternak, 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.

 

Register here: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=846292

Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Anne Graham, 10-500, 617 253-7744, GRAHAMA@MIT.EDU


(CANCELED) Cybersecurity: People, Process and Technology

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

Jan/28 Wed 10:00AM-12:00PM E62-250

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required

CANCELLED Due to the weather, the speakers can no longer travel to campus.

The tools for Cybersecurity are shifting from Protection and Detection toward Tolerance and Survivability. As Malware numbers, attacks, cost and time-to-fix all explode, it has become clear the advances in Cybersecurity technology have outpaced similar advances in People and current Processes. Should we move beyond today's compliance approaches towards monitoring and industry partnership that shares threat information? Can we align dependent circles… and what can we do till then? Is this simply a technology discussion? The presentation was based on several decades of industry, telecom and government perspectives.

Everardo Ruiz SM '00 and COL. (Ret.) Robert Banks will lead this discussion.

Register for this free event.

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

Add to Calendar Jan/26 Mon 12:00PM-01:30PM 5-134

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up

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


Get a Patent on your Invention & Turn it into a Startup!

Christopher Noble

Add to Calendar Jan/15 Thu 12:30PM-02:00PM 3-133

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up

You've invented something really cool. Can you get a patent?  Can you create a company around it?

Come and hear Christopher Noble, MIT Technology Licensing Officer.  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 investors are looking for when they ask you:  “What about your IP?”

To register please email: kmkhalil@mit.edu

Sponsor(s): Technology Licensing Office
Contact: Katrina Khalil-Iannetti, NE18-501, 617 253-6966, KMKHALIL@MIT.EDU


Getting a Job? The Key Law-Sensitive Issues.

John Akula, Lou Rodrigues

Add to Calendar Jan/14 Wed 01:00PM-04:00PM E51-335

Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)

Faculty:  John Akula, Senior Lecturer in Law, Sloan School; and Lou Rodriques, Partner, Morgan Lewis

This course will cover critical issues that you will face when entering the job market, especially in a start-up or high tech context.  We will discuss:

Background documents will be provided in the workshop.

Sponsor(s): Sloan School of Management
Contact: John Akula, jakula@mit.edu


J-1 Student Visa Workshop

Aurora Brule, International Student Advisor

Add to Calendar Jan/28 Wed 12:00PM-01:30PM 5-134

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


Patents-Past Present and Future

Dick Schulze '67

Add to Calendar Jan/13 Tue 05:30PM-07:00PM 4-145

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/13

UPOP Mentor Dick Schulze ’67 presents an entertaining look at some amusing – and some technological breakthrough – patents of the past, talks about how to get started on patenting your own breakthrough inventions, and takes a peek at the latest Supreme Court patent cases.

From San Francisco, Dick is an MIT graduate in electrical engineering and the University of Chicago law school. He is licensed to practice law in California, Colorado, Nevada, and South Dakota, and before the US Patent & Trademark Office. Following service as an Air Force JAG and as a law clerk to U.S. District Judge Howard Turrentine in San Diego, he engaged in a general law practice in San Diego, later specializing in intellectual property. For 19 years he was with Hewlett-Packard Co. and its successor Agilent Technologies as Managing Counsel in Intellectual Property, supervising a staff of company attorneys and legal assistants in California, Colorado, Singapore, and Germany. Following his retirement from Agilent in 2007, he became Of Counsel to Holland & Hart in Reno.

Dick has two grown children and four grandchildren. When not practicing law, he can be found passionately pursuing his second profession as a snowboard instructor at Northstar California ski resort.

 

To register: http://upop.mit.edu/events/view/?id=719

Sponsor(s): Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program -UPOP
Contact: Kate Moynihan, 1-123-B, 617 253-0041, KATEJM@MIT.EDU


Research Funder Open Access Requirements from DOE and Other Federal Agencies

Ellen Finnie Duranceau, Program Manager, Scholarly Pub., Copyright, & Licensing, Michelle Christy, Director, Office of Sponsored Programs

Add to Calendar Jan/15 Thu 01:00PM-02:00PM 1-150

Enrollment: Please email efinnie@mit.edu to reserve a spot.
Sign-up by 01/12
Limited to 40 participants

Do you or your colleagues get or seek federal funding for your research?  Want to stay up-to-date on rules to get your next grant, or help others with managing their grant requirements?  Come to this session and learn about new requirements from the federal government for open access: in 2013, the White House directed all large federal agencies to develop requirements for open access to publications and data created through research they fund.  These requirements are now being implemented, starting with the Department of Energy (DOE).

In the session, staff from the Office of Sponsored Programs and the Libraries will:

•             provide an overview of the new requirements

•             focus on the requirements that have been issued from the Department of Energy

•             update you on any additional requirements released in time for this session

•             describe services at MIT that can help you comply with these requirements

In addition, guest speaker Martin Greenwald, Associate Director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, and former Chair of the DOE Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee, will give you an inside look at the DOE requirements.

 

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


Special Seminar: Being a Lawyer in the Tech Space

Jessica Silbey, J.D., Ph.D., Professor of Law

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/07
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions

How do lawyers serve clients who are scientists, engineers and tech entrepreneurs? How can a lawyer help build a company or a machine?  Is a lawyer a business partner, a confidant, or an occasional counselor? What makes legal rules different from scientific rules? How may the difference matter for science and engineering in the 21st century?  In this class, we will learn about the specific contours of the lawyer-client relationship, and we will identify the common subject matter of legal advice in the tech space that is characterized by start-ups, quickly evolving companies, and technological innovation.  Among the subjects we will discuss will be intellectual property law, privacy law, security law, corporate and contract law, and legal ethics.

This seminar is not necessarily for those considering a career in law, although it may clarify goals in that direction.  It is for those interested in law and technology.

Sponsor(s): Anthropology
Contact: Irene Hartford, E53-335, 617 452-2837, IHART@MIT.EDU


The Right Legal Steps when Starting Your Company

Leon Sandler, Executive Director

Add to Calendar Jan/15 Thu 12:00PM-02:00PM 3-370

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/13
Limited to 55 participants

What legal steps do you need to take as you spin your technology out of MIT?  How do you divide the equity between founders?  When should you incorporate and in what form?  What contracts do you need to have in place?  How do you ensure the right legal protection as you proceed? What minefields should you avoid? 

Come and discuss these topics with a panel of legal experts and MIT entrepreneurs who have spun-out their Deshpande Center projects into companies. Lunch will be served.

To sign up, please email deshpande_rsvp@mit.edu. Space is limited to the first 55 registrants.

 

Sponsor(s): Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation
Contact: Michelle Grdina, 1-229, 617 324-2764, MGRDINA@MIT.EDU


Theses@MIT: specifications and copyright issues

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

Add to Calendar Jan/26 Mon 03:00PM-04:00PM 14N-132

Enrollment: Please email efinnie@mit.edu to reserve a spot.
Sign-up by 01/22
Limited to 25 participants
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, Copyright, & 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 copyright, fair use, and open licensing

Ellen Finnie Duranceau, Program Manager, Scholarly Publishing, Copyright & Licensing

Add to Calendar Jan/21 Wed 01:00PM-02:00PM 14N-132

Enrollment: Please email efinnie@mit.edu to reserve a spot.
Sign-up by 01/19
Limited to 25 participants
Prereq: none

This session will help you assess whether use of a particular image requires permission or can be used under “fair use,” will provide suggesions about how to find images already flagged for reuse, and will touch briefly upon good practices for 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, Copyright, & Licensing 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

Add to Calendar Jan/29 Thu 12:00PM-01:30PM 10-250

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up

Iandoli Desai & Cronin P.C., Boston Law Firm, 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