Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute

Mtech Sponsors

Mtech's venture programs work closely with organizations and persons—ranging from local entrepreneurs and angel investors to service providers and large corporations—who share a passion for starting and building ventures, as well as for training technologists to become founders. Mtech venture programs' valued 2009-2010 sponsors are listed below.

- Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Nixon Peabody LLP

 

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.

 

Nixon Peabody is one of the largest law firms in the United States with more than
800 attorneys collaborating across 21 major practice areas in 17 office locations,
including Washington, D.C. , New York, Boston, Chicago, London, Paris, Los
Angeles, San Francisco, Shanghai, and Silicon Valley. Nixon Peabody has deep experience representing research institutions and universities, and the life sciences and technology-based startup companies that emerge from these institutions. Extensive experience on both the investor and company sides of financing deals enables us to make introductions that are beneficial to both companies in search of funding and venture capital firms looking
for exceptional companies in which to invest. Our attorneys negotiate, structure, and close venture capital funding deals and all types of strategic alliances and joint ventures. We help our clients know what to expect throughout the financing process and how to avoid common pitfalls. Our relationships with a broad network of investors nationwide enable us to negotiate the most favorable terms and conditions for all types of private equity issuance. We offer full-service corporate capabilities emerging businesses need as they mature. Nixon Peabody has a robust Intellectual Property Practice that counsels technology
and life sciences companies on due diligence matters, patent prosecution, patent
interference, patent application, patent reexamination, patent reissue, transactional
matters, and litigation.