Title: Information Sharing, Patents and Trade Secrets

Speaker: Michael Liu Su, Attorney at Law, McNeill Baur PLLC

Time: Sat, Dec 16, 2023, 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM (EDT)

In today’s life sciences industry, many startups and emerging companies have obtained a competitive advantage based on their proprietary technology. To sustain long-term growth, many companies actively seek the market’s attention for fundraising, by for example, initial public offerings or collaborations. These business development activities often involve a large amount of information sharing and could expose companies to intellectual property risks.

Patents and trade secrets are two distinct forms of intellectual property. Patents are exclusive rights, granted for a limited term, for an invention that is novel, has an inventive step, and is capable of industrial application. Patents encourage innovation by providing a government-sanctioned competitive advantage to the right holders, and in return, requiring disclosure of the patented invention. After patent expiry, the disclosed invention becomes part of the public domain.

In this webinar, TAAB is honored to invite patent attorney Michael Liu Su
to discuss information sharing, patents, and trade secrets in the life sciences industry!

在當今的生物製藥和生技產業，許多新創公司和新興公司憑藉其專有技術佔據了競爭優勢。為了維持公司的長期成長，許多公司積極尋求市場的關注來籌集資金，譬如進行首次公開募股，或者建立合作交易。這些業務開發活動涉及大量資訊共享，也使公司面臨知識產權的風險。 

專利和商業機密是智慧財產權的兩種不同形式。專利是在有限期限內授予新穎、涉及創造性且能夠工業應用的發明的專有權。專利透過為權利持有人提供政府認可的競爭優勢來鼓勵創新，作為回報，要求公開專利發明。 專利到期後，所公開的創新成為公共領域的一部分。 

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