Entrepreneurship Clinic's Proactive Legal Help Contributes to Emblu's Success

Entrepreneurship Clinic's Proactive Legal Help Contributes to Emblu's Success

Three questions were top of mind for the cofounders of Emblu, a sustainability-focused startup, when they began working with Michigan Law's Entrepreneurship Clinic last winter: Could Emblu be protected under a patent?; What type of business entity would be right for their venture?; and, since Emblu retrieves wireless signals, were there potential legal issues concerning privacy?

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​The Entrepreneurship Clinic provides legal assistance to student-led entrepreneurial ventures at the University of Michigan. It offers transactional legal services in a number of areas including entity formation, contract issues, financing, and intellectual property.

 

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Bryce Pilz: Clinical Assistant Professor, Entrepreneurship Clinic

Bryce Pilz: Clinical Assistant Professor, Entrepreneurship Clinic

Bryce C. Pilz is a clinical assistant professor in the Entrepreneurship Clinic. He represents student entrepreneurs and startups concerning intellectual property and corporate legal matters. His expertise is in intellectual property and transactional law. Prior to joining the Law School, Prof. Pilz practiced at Kirkland & Ellis LLP in the firm's intellectual property practice and clerked for Judge Amy J. St. Eve in the Northern District of Illinois. Most recently, he served as associate general counsel in the University of Michigan's Office of General Counsel.​

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Dana Thompson: Director, Entrepreneurship Clinic

Dana Thompson: Director, Entrepreneurship Clinic

Dana Thompson, ’99, values the opportunity to make a difference in her home state of Michigan, something she believes she can do through a new clinic she is directing.

“The chance to have an impact on Detroit and the rest of the state was really important to me,” says the clinical assistant professor of law. “I think the Entrepreneurship Clinic is a great opportunity to support the economic development of our state and country.”

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Entrepreneurship Clinic Offers "Top-Notch Legal Help" to U-M Student Startup

Entrepreneurship Clinic Offers "Top-Notch Legal Help" to U-M Student Startup

​When Fetchnotes, a University of Michigan student start-up venture, needed legal support recently, its founders knew just where to go: Michigan Law's Entrepreneurship Clinic.

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When Fetchnotes, a University of Michigan student start-up venture, needed legal support recently, its founders knew just where to go: Michigan Law's Entrepreneurship Clinic.

The brainchild of undergraduate students at U-M's Ross School of Business, Fetchnotes is a cloud-based sticky-note application designed to help corral and share the myriad to-do's, tasks, and shopping lists most people need to successfully organize their daily lives. Launched in 2011 and nursed over two terms in U-M's student business incubator TechArb, Fetchnotes now has more than 19,000 users and recently joined the one percent of startups accepted into TechStars, a prestigious business accelerator program. More...

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