There is a lunch talk (1.5 hour event) in St.Paul this Friday, about an interesting topic: How to protect an idea/IP and still collaborate with people to build a startup?

Event : IP/Startup Chat #1: Inventions – Secrecy or Collaboration (or Both)? with Ernest Grumbles
Date  :     Friday, March 12, 2010
Time :    12:00 PM -1:30 PM (lunch at 12, talk begins at 12:30)
Cost  :     Free, But you have to get a ticket here
Where : The 3rd Place, 2190 Como Ave, Saint Paul, MN 55108 Map
Lunch from “Freaky Fast” Jimmy John’s included. (Yes, there is such a thing as a free lunch!)

More Information:

Intellectual property laws often demand that inventions be kept secret.  Think of the law of patent and trade secret.  There can drastic consequences if you let ideas out of the box at the wrong place or time (such as loss of patentabilty).  But there are drastic consequences of secrecy as well as in: no one can help you develop the idea and no one may ultimately care.  Balancing the goals of secrecy and collaboration will be the main topic (of debate and discussion).

Presented and sponsored by Ernest Grumbles, an IP/Startup lawyer with Merchant & Gould and Co-Founder of MOJO/Minnesota, a collective fomenting innovation in Minnesota.
Hosted by The 3rd Place, a startup friendly coworking and collaborative space in St. Paul.

Ticket required. Space is limited to 20 – Register HERE

P.S. – Drop me an email, if you are interested to join me – teraom [at] teraom {dawt} com