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IP Law for Femtech Founders: 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?
IP Law for Femtech Founders: When cooperating with medical research centers, key opinion leaders (KOLs) or clinics, how do you protect IP as a company? If you’re creating a solution together, who owns the IP? How do I protect company value in this case? What kind of contracts should be in place? And at what point in time?
IP Law for Femtech Founders: What are strategies for femtech startups looking to protect products based on algorithms or machine learning approaches? Are patents feasible?
HeyMama and the Power of Online Communities in 2020, a Challenging Year for Working Mothers
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Alva’s Annie Coleridge: “Learning to lead a team is a time of intense personal development, reflection and learning.”
Employer Health Innovation Roundtable (EHIR) Is Now Accepting Submissions for the Spring 2021 Cycle
Rhia Ventures Invests in OCON Healthcare’s Ballerine, the First 3D Spherical Copper Intrauterine Contraceptive
Vulvani’s Britta Wiebe: “I never really planned to start my own business, but I was looking for a purposeful job that fulfilled me.”
Period-Care B-Corp Callaly Announce FDA 510(k) Clearance of Their Tampliner
Advantia Health’s New Flagship Practice, Liv by Advantia Health, Is Set to Open in March 2021
“Can Femtech Help the NHS?”: A New Femtech TV Interview Series with DigitalHealth.London’s Jenny Thomas
What’s New in Femtech This Week? (Dec 17, 2020)
Women’s Brain Project Is Organizing a Hackathon to Advance the Understanding of Sex and Gender Differences for Precision Medicine
The Case for Her and Refinery29 Partner to Reposition Menopause Through Creative Design
Coral’s Isharna Walsh: “Entrepreneurship tests you on every level, and every day brings a new challenge, so you have to find ways to keep yourself healthy.”
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Healthy.io’s Katherine Ward: “Working with the NHS can be complicated, but with the right partners it’s absolutely possible.”
Attn:Grace Adds 900K in Funding and Announces Strategic Collaboration with AARP Innovation Labs to Destigmatize Women’s Aging
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Dr. Hiba Saleem: “I don’t think we talk about femtech enough yet in the NHS. It’s early days. We’re only just getting started.”
HyIvy Health’s Rachel Bartholomew: “There are 10000 different things, programs, people pulling you in every direction so it can be hard to navigate what will be beneficial and what will take up your time.”
Menopause Startup The Cusp Abruptly Ends Operations
Decentralized Trials & Research Alliance (DTRA) Launches to Democratize and Accelerate Clinical Trials
Meet the 3 Women’s Wellness Startups Who Presented at Springboard’s Dolphin Tank This Week!
Academic Health Care System RWJBarnabas Health Embarks on System-Wide Initiative to Address Equity and Systemic Racism
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The Della HQ’s Karen Heng: “I’ve always started businesses and brought ideas to life. If you can think it, I’ve probably tried to start it!”