10 Things Every Parent Should Know: Protecting and Planning for your Children
Mark Porter '05, Certified Financial Planner
| Jan/25 | Mon | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 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.
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
Brian Mahoney, Esq., Mark Porter '05, Certified Financial Planner
| Jan/20 | Wed | 04:00PM-05:00PM | 32-144 |
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
Danielle Byrdsong, MTA Associate Officer
| Jan/21 | Thu | 01:30PM-03:00PM | 66-156 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/21
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 Danielle Byrdsongi 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 by emailing 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
| Jan/13 | Wed | 12:00PM-01:45PM | 56-114 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/13
Ever wanted to pen a novel, code a video game or mobile app?
Maybe you are an artist or an architect?
Copyright issues affect musicians, photographers, and software programmers alike. As such, copyrights offer a unique and fun look at the protection of your creative works of authorship whether developed at MIT or elsewhere.
Join Daniel Dardani, Technology Licensing Officer and IP expert for an overview of copyright law, its history, common use, and its relevance to the MIT Community as a type of intellectual property. Daniel will explore issues such as: the nature of originality, the doctrine of fair use, how copyrights function in the digital age, and more. All are welcomed. No prior knowledge of the law or IP is required.
This event is co-sponsored by the MIT Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS)
To register please email: kmkhalil@mit.edu
Sponsor(s): Technology Licensing Office, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Contact: Katrina Khalil-Iannetti, NE18-501, 617-253-6966, kmkhalil@mit.edu
Basics of Obtaining a Patent 2016
Anne Graham, Civil & Environmental Engineering Librarian
| Jan/25 | Mon | 03:00PM-04:30PM | 4/162 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/25
Limited to 100 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.
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Anne Graham, 10-500, 617 253-7744, GRAHAMA@MIT.EDU
Basics of Patent Law for Scientists, Engineers & Entrepreneurs
Stephen M. Hou, Course 6 alum, Chih Yun Wu, Julian Pymento
| Jan/23 | Sat | 02:00PM-05:00PM | 32-144 |
Enrollment: Advanced sign-up preferred; walk-ins allowed
Sign-up by 01/21
Limited to 60 participants
Patent protection for inventions is a valuable part of business
strategy for both start-ups and established companies.
Covers the basics of patent law, including the patent
application process, prosecution, litigation, and licensing. Intended
for undergraduates, graduate students, and post-docs in science,
engineering, and business. Examples from fields
ranging from computer software to pharmaceuticals. Discusses
the America Invents Act of 2011, the most far-reaching change in
U.S. patent law since 1952, switching the United States from a "first to
invent" to a "first to file" system. Looks at how notable Supreme
Court and Federal Circuit cases shaped patent law and what they mean
for inventors.
Some questions we will explore are:
* Why should I patent my invention?
* Which inventions are patentable?
* How high are the "novelty" & "non-obviousness" standards for
patentability?
* What are the differences between a scientific publication, a patent, &
a trade secret?
* What if I want a patent, but my co-inventor doesn't (or is deceased)?
* How much do I have to disclose to obtain a patent?
* What do patent claims mean?
* What is the scope of my patent?
* What should I do if my patent application is rejected?
* What rights does my patent give me?
* What makes my patent valuable?
* If I'm sued for patent infringement, what recourse do I have?
* How do I find & hire a patent attorney?
Instructors are NYU Law students.
Seminar is oversubscribed and no longer accepting sign-ups.
Sponsor(s): Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, EECS Graduate Students Association, Graduate Association of Mechanical Engineers
Contact: Stephen M. Hou, stephenhou@alum.mit.edu
Copy, create, hack, and distribute: An introduction to intellectual property rights on the Internet
Kate Darling, Stacey Dogan
| Jan/14 | Thu | 01:00PM-04:00PM | Media Lab, E14-244 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/13
Prereq: None
Whether you’re a programmer, entrepreneur, or just into making cool things for the interwebz, you’re likely to interact with copyright and other intellectual property (IP) laws in the course of your work. In this class, we'll talk through cases where IP law has impacted online platforms and device hacks, examine the ideas behind those laws, and discuss where they sometimes go wrong.
Topics include copyright infringement, DMCA safe harbor, trademark infringement, and DMCA anti circumvention law.
Stacey Dogan is a law professor at Boston University, a leading intellectual property scholar, and an MIT alum.
Kate Darling is the IP advisor to the MIT Media Lab and a fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
Email Kate to join this session!
Contact: Kate Darling, KDARLING@MIT.EDU
Cybersecurity: People, Process and Technology
Everardo Ruiz SM '00, Intellectual Ventures, COL. Robert Banks
| Jan/26 | Tue | 01:00PM-03:00PM | E62-250 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Cybersecurity continues a shift from Tolerance and Survivability tools towards Moving Target Defenses. The increasing rate of cyber-attacks and their impacts on U.S. Company’s underscore several Cybersecurity Myths. Cyber-defense strategy needs new Social Norms, similar to Europe’s approach for the Plague, Slavery and Piracy that globally deter today’s Malware, Botnets and Espionage. Should we move beyond compliance, monitoring and industry partnership of sharing threat information? Can cyber policies address today’s challenges of misaligned incentives, information asymmetries and externalities and what can businesses do till then? Is this simply a technology discussion? As malware attack numbers and the cost and time-to-fix all explode, it’s clear that cyber-attack advances have outpaced Social Norms and current policy. The presentation is 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
Get a Patent on your Invention & Turn it into a Startup!
Christopher Noble
| Jan/14 | Thu | 12:30PM-02:00PM | 3-133 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/14
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
It's fair! No it's not!
Dick Schulze '67
| Jan/13 | Wed | 05:45PM-07:15PM | 5-217 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/13
Limited to 35 participants
UPOP mentor and MIT alum, Dick Schulze will give a one-hour presentation on the "Fair Use" doctrine in copyright and trademark law.
When is it fair to copy someone else's work, and when can you be hauled into court for doing it? This will be a humorous but also very serious look at new and old laws and court cases on parody in song, selling someone else's books, saying someone else's business sucks, and more.
Questions from the audience are encouraged.
To register: http://upop-portal.mit.edu/events/view/?id=822
Sponsor(s): Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program -UPOP
Contact: Kate Moynihan, 1-123-B, 617 253-0041, KATEJM@MIT.EDU
J-1 Student Visa Workshop
Presenter TBD
| Jan/27 | Wed | 12:00PM-01:30PM | E39-040 |
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, E39-278, x3-3795, ajames@mit.edu
Jailed for Teaching Physics: Denial of education to the Baha'i community in Iran
Brian Aull, Member of MIT Board of Chaplains
| Jan/29 | Fri | 12:30PM-01:30PM | 1-150 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Prereq: None
The Baha'i Faith is an independent world religion that originated in Iran in the mid 1800's. In Iran, the Baha'i community is the largest religious minority, and is subjected to systematic persecution by the government and Islamic clergy. This session is for professors and others in the academic community to make them aware of one aspect of this persecution: the denial of higher education to Baha'is and the imprisonment of faculty members of the Baha'i Institute for Higher Education. One of these prisoners, an MIT alumnus recently released after serving a four-year term, tells his story in the current issue of Technology Review Magazine:
http://www.technologyreview.com/article/543876/my-unwanted-sabbatical/
Sponsor(s): Bahai Association
Contact: Brian Aull, LL-LI-127C, 781 981-4676, bfaull@mit.edu
MIT Police Citizens Academy
Andrew Turco, Sergeant
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/28
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Over the course of the six class series participants will learn the basics of Criminal Law and Procedure, How Criminal Investigations Work, When and How Officers Use Force, Fundamentals of Patrol, and Issues in Modern Day Policing.
Sponsor(s): Campus Police
Contact: Andrew Turco, W89, 617 253-9755, ATURCO@MIT.EDU
| Jan/12 | Tue | 04:00PM-05:00PM | 4-257 |
| Jan/14 | Thu | 04:00PM-05:00PM | 4-257 |
| Jan/19 | Tue | 04:00PM-05:00PM | 4-257 |
| Jan/21 | Thu | 04:00PM-05:00PM | 4-257 |
| Jan/26 | Tue | 04:00PM-05:00PM | 4-257 |
| Jan/28 | Thu | 04:00PM-05:00PM | 4-257 |
Andrew Turco - Sergeant
Napkins to Launch
Dazza Greenwood, Scientist
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/11
Limited to 25 participants
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: None
Integrated Business/Legal/Technical Rapid Prototyping for Entrepreneurial New Venture Ideas
MIT Media Lab's Dazza Greenwood (Law.MIT.edu) and MIT Visiting Professor of Law Jonathan Askin (BLIP Clinic) are teaming up to offer an innovative project-based course at MIT this January for entrepreneurs and others with new venture ideas to learn and apply integrated business/legal/technical rapid prototyping skills for quick-start development of "back of the napkin" ideas. The course is structured around sessions for project hacking and review/feedback and sessions for learning and skill-building focused on key business, legal, and technical issues, options, and opportunities for project success.
The course content also includes opportunties to work with Bitcoin and other Blockchain related technologies as the basis for potential new venture business models, legal structures, and technical solutions. The course will provide opportunities for skill building and mentorship with experts from Consensus Systems for developer and end-user tools to build decentralized applications for blockchain ecosystems, focusing primarily on Ethereum.
The course is not limited to Bitcoin and Blockchain ventures. If you have other venture ideas, feel free to participate.
For more information, see: https://law.mit.edu/NapkinsToLaunch
Contact: Dazza Greenwood, E15-384C, (617) 500-3644, dazza@civics.com
| Jan/12 | Tue | 02:00PM-04:00PM | E15-359 |
This is the first phrase of student project iteration from Napkins to Launch.
Jonathan Askin - Visiting Professor, Dazza Greenwood - Scientist
| Jan/14 | Thu | 02:00PM-04:00PM | E15-359 |
Napkins to Launch student project second iteration and presentations.
Jonathan Askin - Visiting Professor, Dazza Greenwood - Scientist
Research Funder Open Access Requirements from NASA, NSF, DOE and Other Federal Agencies
Ellen Finnie Duranceau, Program Manager, Scholarly Pub., Copyright, & Licensing, Michelle Christy, Director, Office of Sponsored Programs, Katherine McNeill, Program Head, Data Management Services
| Jan/13 | Wed | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 14N-132 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/12
Limited to 30 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.
In the session, staff from the Office of Sponsored Programs and the Libraries will:
• provide an overview of the new requirements that have been issued from major agencies including NASA, NSF, and the Department of Energy.
• describe services at MIT that can help you comply with these requirements
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Ellen Finnie Duranceau, 14S-216, 617 253-8483, EFINNIE@MIT.EDU
The Right Legal Steps when Starting Your Company
Leon Sandler, Executive Director
| Jan/13 | Wed | 12:00PM-01:30PM | 3-270 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/09
Limited to 100 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 register at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1hvlTwLs2GrAqPCd6D3Pp7UEKoOdtVzh5mwGsQ-JyNrA/viewform?usp=send_form
Space is limited to the first 100 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, Program Manager, Scholarly Publishing, Copyright,& Licensing, Mikki Simon MacDonald, Metadata archivist
| Jan/20 | Wed | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 14N-132 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/16
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, 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, open licensing, and fair use
Katharine Dunn, Scholarly Communications Librarian
| Jan/19 | Tue | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 14N-132 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/19
Limited to 25 participants
Directed at authors of journal articles, blogs, theses, and other scholarly writing, this session will help you assess whether using a particular image requires permission or can be used under "fair use," provide suggestions about how to find images already flagged for reuse, and touch upon good practices for citing images.
Presented by Katharine Dunn, Scholarly Communications Librarian in the Office of Scholarly Publishing, Copyright, & Licensing in the MIT Libraries.
Register here: http://libcal.mit.edu/event/2247191
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Katharine Dunn, 14E-210, 617 253-9879, KHDUNN@MIT.EDU
Working After Graduation: Immigration Concerns
Boston Immigration Attorney
| Jan/28 | Thu | 12:00PM-02:00PM | 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, E39-278, x3-3795, ajames@mit.edu
Workshop: Law, Policy, and the So-Called Sharing Economy
Jonathan Askin, Visiting Professor
| Jan/13 | Wed | 02:30PM-03:30PM | E15-393 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/12
Limited to 18 participants
Prereq: none
What are the legal, policy, and societal implications surrounding emerging "sharing economy" ventures. Come with your venture ideas or just your perspectives on the future the sharing economy.
Contact: Jonathan Askin, E15-384C, 917 338-2356, ASKIN@MIT.EDU
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