Description

Discover how to identify and protect your most valuable intangible assets. Erik will explain the differences between trademarks, copyrights, patents, and trade secrets, how to protect your brand name and logo, ownership issues with employee and contractor creations, licensing your IP or using others' protected material, and practical steps to avoid costly infringement disputes. 

About your speaker: 

Erik Velapoldi is a senior legal leader with 30 years of experience as outside and inside counsel. He provides fractional general counsel services to companies as well as consulting to in-house legal teams on substantive and operational matters. He also advises companies and individuals on a broad range of legal matters, ranging from strategic transactions, acquisitions and divestitures, equity and debt investments, commercial contracting, licensing, corporate governance, compliance, executive compensation, corporate formation, internal investigations and other general corporate matters. He has particular experience in the life sciences industry.