This 14-page research report written for biotech startups and their intellectual property attorneys features ways to protect product development with valuable IP. The authors take us through the steps for structuring IP so that the product is properly protected. From first developing a product to monitoring competitors' products, the report provides strategies for how to position a product so that it appeals to investors.

Other topics include:

• problems with startups
• the role of the IP attorney
• SBIR grants
• grant proposals
• provisional patent applications
• patentability analysis
• patent mills
• licenses and cross-licenses
• the European market

This Executive Report is written by:

• Eric S. Furman, Ph.D., Partner and Kerry S. Taylor, Ph.D., Associate, San Diego
• Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

About Executive Reports:

Executive Reports offer focused, hard-hitting advice from the leaders of some of America's top companies, packaged in a concise, readable format. Each research report provides readers with 3 to 5 strategies that will have a direct financial impact on their business. While not meant as a comprehensive guide, each report includes quick-hit items that can immediately impact specific business strategies. Executive authors drill down to the central issues surrounding each topic area and dispense expert advice in concise, direct language. Executive Reports feature leading professionals selected by the Aspatore Editorial Board based on their experience, research, and standing within the professional community.

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