Hoffmann & Baron, LLP joins Stony Brook University in running the Long Island Innovation Boot Camp/Pre-Seed Workshop

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Hoffmann & Baron, LLP joins Stony Brook University in running the Long Island Innovation Boot Camp/Pre-Seed Workshop

Syosset, NY (March 27, 2017) – Hoffmann & Baron, LLP, a full-service Intellectual Property law firm based in Syosset, NY, has provided eight experienced Intellectual Property attorneys to mentor entrepreneurs at the Long Island Innovation Boot Camp/Pre-Seed Workshop at Stony Brook University, March 22, 23, and 30. For ten (10) years, since Spring 2008, Hoffmann and Baron, LLP has participated in the Innovation Boot Camp, providing dedicated high quality intellectual property attorneys to all boot camp teams.

“We support the innovative spirit of the Long Island entrepreneurial ecosystem and believe it important to give back to the economic community we serve,” says Ronald J. Baron, a co-founder of the firm, established in 1984 that today represents clients in the U.S. and international community in all scientific and engineering fields.

The Boot Camp provides innovators having potentially game-changing technologies in, for example, clean energy, IT and life sciences, an opportunity to test the commercial potential of their innovations. Teams of experts and innovators, including researchers, engineers, business students and entrepreneurs, are formed around technical and commercial ideas. Each team also has a coach, a representative of the New York State Small Business Development Center, or Center for Biotechnology at SBU who ensure each team maintains the intense, rapid pace schedule, according to organizer Dave Hamilton, executive director of the SBU Clean Energy Business Incubator Program (CEBIP). The idea is to combine entrepreneurs who have limited commercial experience with business experts and IP experts like Hoffmann & Baron attorneys.

CEBIP became involved with the camp in 2011 upon CEBIP’s inception, as its funding from the New York State Energy and Research Development Authority encouraged the participation of clean energy technologies within the Boot Camp. The Center for Biotechnology at SBU has been involved in the Boot Camp from its beginning. “We find the Boot Camp to be an excellent mechanism to help entrepreneurs determine whether their technology will support company formation, and to understand what it will take to bring the technology to market,” says Diane Fabel, director of operations for the Center for Biotechnology. “It also helps us assess what other services and support the entrepreneur may need to be successful.”

Hoffmann & Baron, LLP, in turn, provides Intellectual Property experts to support and enhance the quality of the Boot Camp. “Our investment of seasoned and savvy Intellectual Property lawyers to the Boot Camp punctuates Hoffmann & Baron’s dedication to the commercial community of Long Island,” Baron emphasizes.