{"348001":{"#nid":"348001","#data":{"type":"event","title":"ECE Seminar (ECE 2001A\/ECE 8001A)","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EJohn Lanza\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker\u0027s Title and Affiliation:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EChair \u2013 Intellectual Property Group, Foley \u0026amp; Lardner LLP\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESeminar Title:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E Entrepreneurship\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E The talk will cover the basics of starting a technology-based company, including entity formation, financing and intellectual property issues.\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong class=\u0022BodyText\u0022\u003ESpeaker Bio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJohn Lanza is a partner with the Intellectual Property department of Foley \u0026amp; Lardner LLP. He excels at helping companies identify and maximize the corporate value of their intellectual property assets. He provides strategic advice to his clients regarding the acquisition, transfer and enforcement of intellectual property rights and counsels them regarding their business operations in the face of adverse intellectual property rights. He has counseled hundreds of start-ups and is an active angel investor looking for the next company that will change the world. He has also counseled dozens of more established companies in a wide variety of technology areas, including competition and computer-related technologies, software, Internet technologies, electronic commerce and business methods, computer security, cryptography, imaging systems, software entertainment technologies, semiconductors, electronic displays, electronic devices, and printed circuit technology. Notable clients include Google Inc., Citrix Systems, Inc., Carbonite Inc., RSA Security Inc., Analog Devices, Inc., and Harmonix Music Systems, Inc. (the makers of Rock Band).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMr. Lanza has been listed in Chambers USA as a leading attorney in the field of intellectual property every year since 2006 and has been selected for inclusion in the \u003Cem\u003EMassachusetts Super Lawyers\u00ae \u003C\/em\u003Elists every year since 2005. In 2011, the \u003Cem\u003ELegal 500\u003C\/em\u003E recognized him for his patent prosecution work in utility and design patents, and in 2012 he was also recognized for his work in patent licensing. He was included in the 2012 edition of \u003Cem\u003EBest Lawyers in America\u00ae\u003C\/em\u003E for information technology law and was also recognized among \u003Cem\u003EIAM Patent 1000 \u2013 The\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cem\u003E World\u2019s Leading Patent Practitioners\u003C\/em\u003E 2012 and 2013.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESeminar with Mr. John Lanza\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Entrepreneurship"}],"uid":"27842","created_gmt":"2014-11-21 11:33:09","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:21:03","author":"Ashlee Gardner","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2014-12-03T10:05:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2014-12-03T10:55:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2014-12-03T10:55:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2014-12-03 15:05:00","gmt_time_end":"2014-12-03 15:55:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2014-12-03 15:55:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1577","name":"career"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPaul Steffes\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-894-3128\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:paul.steffes@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Epaul.steffes@ece.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}