ScaleUp Palo Alto Fall 2024 - Week 2 - Intellectual Property Basics

Morrison Foerster presents ScaleUp Speaker Series, a complimentary series that will provide a deep dive into the legal side of founding a startup. These weekly seminars will arm you with the knowledge needed to manage the legal aspects of launching, funding, and growing a startup, with insights on how to avoid common mistakes that can have serious consequences down the road.

This cycle of the ScaleUp Speaker Series will be offered in person in our Palo Alto office at 755 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA. Kindly note that lunch will be provided.

Topics covered in this one-hour session include:

• Patent basics

• Trade secret basics

• Copyright basics

• Trademark basics

• Selected IP issues at formation, business development, financing, and acquisition

For an overview of the topic, kindly view this brief video.

To register for this event or others in this series, kindly email your LinkedIn profile to ECVCEvents@mofo.com.

See our upcoming schedule below:

Week 3 Raising Angel Investment (including Convertible Note Financings) – October 15, 2024.

Learn the most common angel investment structures and practices in seed-stage investing (including debt, equity, and hybrid approaches) and receive an introduction to the preferred stock terms that form the basis of venture capital investments.

Week 4 Raising Venture Capital Investment (Deal Terms and Structures) – October 29, 2024. 

Learn the basic concepts, structures, and math behind venture capital investments, including capital structures, term sheets, and capitalization and liquidation models.

Week 5 Most Common Legal Mistakes of Startup Entrepreneurs – November 5, 2024.

Learn more than a dozen common mistakes, their impact on startups, and how to avoid them in the first place.

**Bonus Session** Antitrust Issues for Startup Companies – November 7, 2024.

Learn about basic antitrust law and principles, the current antitrust enforcement landscape, antitrust risks in interactions with peers and competitors, and other relevant topics relating to antitrust and competition in the startup space.

Week 6 Startup Equity Incentives – November 12, 2024.

Learn the basics of customary equity incentives and how they are used to attract and retain top talent in a competitive market. We will discuss founder vesting, restricted stock, and stock options (including ISOs and NSOs).

Week 7 Follow-on Venture Financing Complexities – November 19, 2024.

Learn how startups and investors manage down rounds, recapitalizations, pay-to-play financings, and other complexities that arise only in the second and subsequent rounds of financing.

Week 8 Selling Your Startup – December 3, 2024.

Learn the differences among acquisition structures, master fundamental mergers and acquisitions (M&A) terms, and receive an overview of definitive M&A agreements and processes.

Week 9 Initial Public Offerings – December 10, 2024.

Learn about the steps necessary when considering an IPO, including the process and timing, and life as a U.S. public company.

 Week 10 Open Forum Recap – December 17, 2024.

Join our interactive, open forum where you can ask startup expert attorneys questions on topics raised during earlier sessions or startup legal questions generally.

For more information on our ScaleUp programming offered in Austin, Boston, New York, and Palo Alto, please visit us at MoFo ScaleUp.