2011 Contest Sponsors

The WPI Venture Forum is proud to highlight our 2011 Business Plan Contest sponsors.

Platinum Sponsor

Massachusetts Life Sciences Center

The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center is a key component and the primary agency tasked with realizing the vision of Massachusetts' Governor Deval Patrick’s Life Sciences Initiative, intended to focus on scientific and economic development, strategic investments at critical stages of the development cycle and collaboration with the private sector to create innovation infrastructure critical to both researchers and companies. This initiative is intended to strengthen Massachusetts as a global leader in life sciences research, innovation and employment.

Platinum Sponsor

Mirick O'Connell, LLP

"The law firm of Mirick O'Connell, LLP has never wavered from the core principles of professional excellence established by our founders in 1916. Excellence in our work. Excellence in client service. Excellence in value.  Mirick O'Connell counsels New England's leading corporations — private and public — and individuals across a wide range of industries. Our firm is highly regarded for its work in such diverse fields as banking and finance, energy, health care, higher education, insurance, life sciences, manufacturing and technology.  The firm is home to more than 60 lawyers and professionals, with offices in Worcester, Westborough and Boston. Our attorneys combine uncompromising standards of service with practical and cost-effective approaches to problem solving. Mirick O'Connell has the expertise to handle the most sophisticated and complex matters, while never losing sight of our first priority — the client."

Gold Sponsor

Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds is a full-service intellectual property law firm founded in 1980. There are over 50 attorneys, patent agents and technology specialists who represent many independent inventors, start-up companies, corporations of all sizes including Fortune 500 companies, as well as academic and research institutions. These inventors, companies and institutions are located in the Boston area, across the United States and around the world.  The firm provides services including all aspects of patent application preparation and prosecution, patent litigation, trademark prosecution and litigation, due diligence studies, patent infringement analyses, licensing negotiations and license drafting, copyright and trade secret advice, and intellectual property counseling of any type that may be desired. The scientific and technical knowledge of the members of the firm is extensive. Most of the firm's members have, in addition to law degrees, advanced degrees in the sciences and/or professional technical experience with strong competencies in biotechnology, chemistry, computer hardware and software, telecommunications, medical devices, physics, electrical engineering, chemical engineering and mechanical engineering. The firm has a deserved reputation for delivering quality work in a timely fashion.

Bronze Sponsors

 

In-Kind Sponsors

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