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Platinum Sponsors Fish & Richardson P.C. is a national law firm with over 350 lawyers in ten offices: Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Dallas, Delaware, New York, San Diego, Silicon Valley, Twin Cities, and Washington, DC. The firm is one of the largest firms practicing intellectual property, litigation, and corporate law and the only firm with a truly national intellectual property practice. Founded in 1878, the firm represented Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, and the Wright Brothers. For 125 years we have served great innovators, helping to protect countless ideas, nurture discoveries, and bring new concepts to market. The firm prosecuted and litigated many of the fundamental patents of an industrialized America, serving corporations creating the cutting-edge technologies of the day: the telephone, the air-brake, the steam turbine, the automobile, and the radio. Frederick Fish, the firm's founder, was for many years the acknowledged leader of the patent bar of the entire country at a time when patents were more important than they had ever been. Today, the firm continues to represent great innovators working in cutting-edge technologies.
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo is a versatile law firm of more than 450 highly qualified and dedicated attorneys representing diverse international clients in many industries, who turn to Mintz for a wide range of legal services and resources. Mintz Levin's clients include major public corporations, privately held and family businesses, entrepreneurs, start-ups and emerging growth companies, investors, underwriters, directors and officers, research scientists, medical and academic institutions, public agencies and industry associations. Attorneys at Mintz Levin are driven by an entrepreneurial zeal that is one of the firm's defining characteristics and which translates into the innovative, energetic representation of clients. Mintz's attorneys pride themselves on the quality of their strategic thinking and their ability to think like clients -- to understand the goals, critical issues and opportunities that drive them. Responsive, aggressive problem-solving is a hallmark of the firm and the foundation on which the its success and growth have been built since its founding in 1933.
The misison of the Technology Development Corporation is to: facilitate the creation of businesses and foster their growth throughout all regions of the State through the development and transfer of technology; as well as to respond to the needs of the R&D community by establishing and managing programs that fill gaps in the innovation process, focusing on those critical areas where the organization can add unique value, operating in partnership with other organizations through a flexible, technically oriented professional staff. Today, the firm continues to represent great innovators working in cutting-edge technologies. TEDCO offeres access to capital, access to facilities, access to technology, and access to networks.
The Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development's mission is simple: to attract new businesses, stimulate private investment and create jobs, encourage the expansion and retention of existing companies and provide businesses in Maryland with workforce training and financial assistance. The department promotes the state's many economic advantages and markets local products and services at home and abroad to spur development, international trade and tourism. Because they are a major economic generator for the state, the department also supports the arts, film production, sports and other special events. The department continues to build on the state's prosperity by promoting its positive business climate and outstanding quality of life. In addition, DBED will ensure that all areas of the state share equally in its prosperity and will continue to promote Maryland as a leader in the New Economy.
Supporting Organizations Supporting Organizations The National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance fosters invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship in higher education as a way of creating innovative, commercially viable, and socially beneficial businesses and employment opportunities in the United States. The program was founded on the premise that invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship are essential components of the higher education curriculum and vital to the nation's economic future. The NCIIA works with colleges and universities to build collaborative experiential learning programs that help nurture a new generation of innovators and entrepreneurs with strong technical and business skills and the tools and intention to make the world a better place.
The Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area is a powerful force for the advancement of higher education in and around the nation's capital. Comprised of twelve universities and two colleges, the Consortium provides 130,000 students with opportunities to benefit from the combined resources of its members. The Consortium's record of public service is augmented by its impressive history of working with the area's government, business, school and community leaders to improve educational opportunities for all.duca
The Greater Baltimore Technology Council is devoted to one goal: growing the region's tech community. The GBTC creates forums where organizations can meet, learn and do business. A nonprofit organization, the GBTC is possible because of grants from the Abell Foundation and the Maryland Department of Business an Economic Development.
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