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…
This post is part of our Ask Me Anything series “IP Law for Femtech Founders” with Marshall, Gerstein & Borun Giordana Mahn. What are strategies for femtech startups looking to protect products based on algorithms or machine learning approaches? Are patents feasible? This is, actually, rather a complex question– generally, machine-learning systems and methods are patent-eligible, meaning patents are feasible in this area, but…
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 Alva‘s founding story as told by co-founder Annie Coleridge. Alva’s mission…
Employer Health Innovation Roundtable (EHIR) is a coalition of the largest and most progressive employers collectively representing over 8M lives. Their mission is to accelerate the adoption of innovation for the sake of improving employee health, wellness and productivity. The group hold a series of events (Spring and Fall) where they curate innovative companies to pitch their solutions to our private group of employer…
Rhia Ventures has invested in Israel-based OCON Healthcare to assist the US launch of Ballerine, the first and only 3D spherical copper IUB (Intrauterine Ball). Ballerine’s unique shape reduces irritation to the endometrium with fewer malpositions and perforations, which are significant drawbacks associated with current T-shaped IUDs. The financing will also help expand Phase II clinical trials for OCON’s SEAD product, which offers point-of-care…
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 Vulvani‘s founding story as told by founder Britta Wiebe. The goal…
UK-based Period care company Callaly announced it received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Callaly Tampliner earlier this week. The Tampliner, which is designed and manufactured in the UK and launched in February 2020, was invented by Dr Alex Hooi, a senior British gynaecologist and Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and developed…
Today, Advantia Health announced that construction is underway for its new flagship practice, Liv by Advantia Health in Washington, DC and released a video of its current storefront windows. The practice is slated to open its doors in March 2021. Liv plans to offer a new model of healthcare for women, with integrated care including gynecology, obstetrics, primary care, mental wellness, and more, in a U Street location. …
