Health Tech 2.0 is a global virtual conference bringing together health tech leaders, innovators, founders, clinicians, influencers, and investors from around the world to discuss the future of healthcare technology. Health Tech 2.0 is around the corner and we couldn’t be more excited! Excited about the upcoming event and it’s top-notch speaker line-up, but also excited to be giving away 10 free…
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In our “Starter Story” series we invite femtech founders to share their stories of how it all began. How did they come up with the idea? Where did they meet their cofounders and what was the hardest part of going from 0 to 1? In today’s Starter Story we get to share kegg‘s founding story as told by founder Kristina Cahojova. kegg’s mission…
2020? It’s a wrap! And although I’m eager to leave the dumpster fire that was 2021 behind (as I’m sure many of you are…), I thought it’d be fun and important to take a look back at this past year in the world of femtech! I started Femtech Insider in 2019 and 2020 was the first full year of our Weekly Femtech…
This post is part of our Ask Me Anything series “IP Law for Femtech Founders” with Marshall, Gerstein & Borun Giordana Mahn. What IP mistakes do you see early-stage companies in the health space make? What pitfalls should I avoid? There are a number of pitfalls you should be wary of. One of the most important issues is not filing a patent…
This post is part of our Ask Me Anything series “IP Law for Femtech Founders” with Marshall, Gerstein & Borun Giordana Mahn. I was wondering why would I file for a patent if I can just keep my tech a trade secret? You want to file a patent to protect your technology if that technology can be reverse-engineered, and replicated just by having the…
This post is part of our Ask Me Anything series “IP Law for Femtech Founders” with Marshall, Gerstein & Borun Giordana Mahn. How can one discuss their prototype while protecting the concept? Customer base insights are required to see if there is even a need/want. Should a preliminary patent be filed prior to any conversations/insights are had/gained? In addition to considering CDAs as provided…
There are different ways of protecting your inventive contributions in collaboration with, or disclosure to, third parties. Intellectual Property (IP) includes trade secrets, trademarks, copyrights, and patents. I’ll be discussing the protections you can use for patents, but confidential disclosure agreements (CDAs) (also called non-disclosure agreements, or NDA’s), employment agreements, and Assignments are also useful for protecting these forms of IP. The…
