Entrepreneurs’ Guide to the Legal World

There are many moving parts in running a business. Entrepreneurs and business owners are constantly multi-tasking and making choices between seemingly equally important decisions. In the thick of things, entrepreneurs and business owners may not realize some of the decisions are mission-critical. We will discuss some of the legal issues every modern business should know.

How to Protect Your Business 

Ku Yoo, partner at Chang & Yoo LLP, represents businesses, investors, high net-worth individuals, investment vehicles, and funds in various industries including startup, biotech, software, and real estate, in addition to electronics manufacturers and suppliers and services in hospitality and construction. In this presentation, Ku will explain the highlights of how to protect your business from sudden accidents and unforeseen events with regards to the co-owners and key employees through partnership agreement, shareholder agreement, equity awards, buy-sell agreements, and more.

Determining Inventorship 

Vadim Cherkasov is an intellectual property attorney at McCarter & English, LLP with a focus on patent and trademark prosecution. He worked as a mechanical engineer prior to his legal practice, and has experience with patents in a wide range of technologies, including medical devices, electrical devices, biometric-based security systems, power generation equipment, agricultural devices, computer network systems, and software-based systems. Vadim will explain how to determine inventorship for patents and why inventorship is crucial to the enforceability of your patent, when assignment of intellectual property rights should be taken care of and the importance of assignment language, and sole vs. joint ownership of intellectual property rights.

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