Intellectual Property and Legal Essentials for Innovators & Entrepreneurs
Navigate the complex world of IP law to protect and commercialize your innovations

Taught by
Anita Choi
Partner at Morrison & Foerster LLP
Time
April 15 - May 13, 2025
Tuesdays, 4:00 - 6:00pm PT
Location
Live, Online
Price
$795
Enrollment Deadline
April 7, 2025
Intellectual Property and Legal Essentials for Innovators & Entrepreneurs
Navigate the complex world of IP law to protect and commercialize your innovations

Taught by
Anita Choi
Partner at Morrison & Foerster LLP
Time
April 15 - May 13, 2025
Tuesdays, 4:00 - 6:00pm PT
Enrollment Deadline
April 7, 2025
Price
$795
Location
Live, Online
Course Overview
This comprehensive course delivers essential intellectual property and legal knowledge for innovators and entrepreneurs in the technology space. Through a dynamic mix of lectures, interactive workshops, and real-world case studies, you'll master the fundamentals of IP law with special emphasis on patent issues, technology developments, and licensing strategies. Working directly with industry experts and experienced entrepreneurs, you'll gain practical knowledge about IP protection, due diligence, and startup formation—essential skills for launching and protecting your ventures.
What You Get

Hands-on experience with patent drafting and claim writing

Industry-specific IP strategies for both life sciences and technology companies

Practical templates and frameworks for IP protection and licensing

Official Berkeley Engineering certificate that validates your expertise

LinkedIn certification to showcase your newly acquired growth marketing expertise
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Who Should Attend
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This course is ideal for scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs—or anyone passionate about innovation at the intersection of technology and business.
What People Say

Jessica Schwabach
CEO and Co-Founder, Sundial
This course is strategically valuable for any startup, especially for technical founders who don't have a background in IP strategy. The fundamentals gained in this course will give any scientist-turned-entrepreneur the fundamental understanding they need to build a strong patent strategy going forward.
Accelerate your startup journey, secure your spot today
Course Schedule
- Why does IP matter?
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What are the different types of IP?
- Copyright, trademarks, trade secrets, patents
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A deeper dive into patents
- Types of patents
- Patents vs. patent applications
- Patentability requirements
- Patenting process
*This schedule is subject to change
Meet your Instructor

Anita Choi
Anita Choi has decades of experience providing strategic advice to companies and investors in the Life Sciences and Food + Agriculture industries. She has helped start-up companies build IP portfolios around their core technologies, and counseled them on issues related to patents versus trade secrets. She has worked with larger, more established companies to manage global patent portfolios in a way that integrates IP with their business models. Combining her legal and business expertise enables her to navigate complex challenges that require complex solutions hence why she is so often called upon by clients to help with assessing, building and strengthening patent portfolios. She has also counseled investors in IP due diligence, identifying critical issues that may affect valuation and risk assessment in deals.
Resources
Protecting Your Ideas and Innovations at UC Berkeley Startup Studio: IP Fundamentals with Anita Choi
This spring, Anita Choi, Partner at Morrison & Foerster, will be teaching a course titled Intellectual Property and Legal Essentials for Innovators & Entrepreneurs, designed to guide AI founders, product managers, marketing professionals, and business leaders through the complexities of the intellectual property landscape. A chemist by training, Choi transitioned…
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