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Take-home Exercises

There are two take-home exercises (see pdf links below). Students have three hours for an exercise, and some choice as to the particular three-hour period. The exercises have been tentatively scheduled to be available during the periods shown below. For each exercise, each student will make arrangements with the TA to receive the exam by e-mail at a mutually determined time during the availability period, and will e-mail back the completed exam within three hours of receiving it. The first exercise will cover lectures 1-8. The second exercise will cover only material not covered by the first: lectures 9-19.

During the period the exercises are available, students may not consult any other person about the content of the course.

The exercises heavily emphasize the required readings. The questions and format will be similar to previous years (although the exercises from some past years were of different lengths.) Past exercises and a sample answer will be made available to students.

It is not expected that students will need the full three hours to complete the exercise. I use this format so that a student does not have to write fast to do well. This may be of special importance to students for whom English is a second language.

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Module I - Basic Building Blocks
1Introduction
2The Law of Duties
3The Hard Edge of Regulation
4Contract I
5Contracts II
Module II - Launching, Growing, and Exiting a Venture
6Setting Up a New Venture

Guest: Joe Hadzima, Main St. Partners
7Financing the Venture I - Venture Capital

Guest: Kenneth Gordon, Testa Hurwitz & Thibeault
8Financing the Venture II - Going Public

Guest: Kenneth Gordon, Testa Hurwitz & Thibeault
9Joint Ventures and M&A1st exercise available two days after lecture 9 at 9 a.m. and is to be completed the next day at 9 p.m. (PDF)
10Employment; Module Wrap-up
Module III - Innovation, Commercialization, and Intellectual Property
11Introduction to Technology Transfer
12Copyrights and Software
13Patents I: The Basics of Patent Law

Guest: Bo Pasternack, Choate Hall
14Patents II: Breakthrough Technologies - The Example of Biotechnology Patents

Guest: Anita Meiklejohn, Fish & Richardson
15Antitrust, JVs and IP
16IP Rights and Business Strategies I

Guest: Sarah Cabot, Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo
17IP Rights and Business Strategies II

Guest: Joe Hadzima, Main St. Partners
18Shifting Business Models and the Law: The Example of the Internet

Guest: Jorge Contreras, Hale & Dorr
19International IP Protection; Licensing; Wrap-up
Module IV - Innovation: The Regulatory and Liability Risks
20Litigation
21The Inside Counsel's Perspective

Guests: Tom DesRosiers,
Genzyme
2nd exercise is available the day after lecture 21 at noon (PDF)
22Bankruptcy and Reorganization

Guest: Jeanne Darcey, Palmer & Dodge
2nd exercise is due one day after lecture 22 (which is two days after it was made available) at 9 p.m.
23National Security and Dealing with Government
24Products Liability

Guest: David Geiger, Foley Hoag

 








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