Startup founders: learn to protect your IP in layers and pitch, publish, and fundraise without putting your rights at risk.

As a startup, your ideas are often your most valuable asset, and you’re constantly sharing them with investors, partners, accelerators, and potential customers. Every pitch, demo, and conference talk can strengthen your IP position or quietly weaken it. In this one-hour session, join Alison Baldwin, J.D., as you learn how to build a layered IP strategy using patents, trade secrets, trademarks, and confidentiality agreements. You’ll also learn how to time filings around fundraising and public announcements so you can share your vision without giving away what makes your company valuable.

Alison is the founder and principal attorney of Baldwin IP PLLC. Raised in central Indiana farm country and trained in biochemistry and plant science before obtaining her law degree, she brings more than two decades of patent litigation and portfolio-building experience to innovators in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, plant genetics, agribusiness, and food science.

Event Details

When: Wednesday, November 18, 2026
Programming: 2:oo p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Location: Virtual Event