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03/28/2023
How to Protect Your Intellectual Property in the Life Sciences
The concept of intellectual property (IP) can be challenging to define, but as a life sciences or biotechnology company, it’s essential to consider as you’re building your business. Regardless of the …
03/28/2023
Intellectual Property Strategy for Biotech Companies
It takes a considerable amount of time and money to develop a healthcare-related product, whether it’s a medical device, diagnostic kit, or novel therapeutic. Sustaining R&D costs over multiple ye…
03/28/2023
What Is Patent Licensing & How Does It Work?
If you read our article about patents, Intellectual Property & Why It’s Important to Your Startup, you know it’s essential to protect your intellectual property, especially when you’re in the earl…
03/28/2023
Intellectual Property Rights for Biotechs
Intellectual property (IP), in general, is a category of property that protects commercially valuable inventions, processes, and information. Intellectual property rights (IPRs) are the rights given t…
03/28/2023
R&D Tax Credits & Incentives: What Are They & Do You Qualify?
Biotechnology and the Life Sciences industry are extremely capital-intensive. The ongoing costs of lab equipment, lab space, supplies and materials, hiring and wages, multiple clinical trials, and FDA…
03/28/2023
What Is Intellectual Property? A Quick Guide To Protecting Your Ideas
As someone who is passionate about scientific innovation, it can be strange to think about ideas as property. The reality is that because so much technology is already patented, protecting your innova…
02/03/2023
What Is the Cap Table & Why Is It Important?
A Review for Biotech Startup Founders Being a biotech or biopharma startup founder comes with a huge list of responsibilities. Many of which pertain to the lab. However, several of those responsibilit…
02/03/2023
Negotiating a Term Sheet: Is it Worth It?
A term sheet is a non-binding agreement between the founders of a company and an investor or group of investors. It includes an outline of the terms and conditions (how much equity and control an inve…
02/03/2023
What Does a VC Term Sheet Include? Clauses & Terms Explained
A term sheet is a non-binding agreement between the founder(s) of a company and an investor or group of investors. It defines the key components or parameters of the potential business agreement for a…
02/03/2023
Venture Capital Term Sheets: What Are They & What Do They Include?
It’s all too common for founders to be confused by venture capital (VC) term sheets. Many founders often find the agreement’s terms complicated or foreign. On the other hand, investors see term sheets…
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