[Virtual] Startup IP Myths: What Every Founder Should Know with David Jakopin

​This presentation provides a practical guide for startups on how to protect, manage, and leverage intellectual property while navigating an increasingly complex U.S. privacy landscape. IP and data practices are not just legal necessities but strategic business assets that drive growth, investment, and risk mitigation.

​Key takeaways include:

1. ​Understand IP types and rights

2. ​Maintain and operationalize IP properly

3. ​Invest in building an IP portfolio

4. ​Leverage IP strategically

5. ​Be prepared to enforce rights

6. ​Address evolving privacy risks,

7. ​Develop a privacy readiness roadmap

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​About the speaker:

​A strategic thinker, the head of Pillsbury’s Silicon Valley Intellectual Property group brings a broad knowledge base and creativity to provide practical advice and concrete implementations on difficult issues.

David Jakopin advises clients on significant disputes, from pre-litigation through appeal. He has a strong technical background in electronics, semiconductors and communications, along with a depth of understanding in civil procedure, trial strategy, licensing, negotiations and general IP-focused corporate representation. This diverse background, along with his hands-on approach, proves highly valuable when advising clients on significant disputes, offering implementable case-specific solutions.

This background helps him assess a broad array of case-specific facts and associated law, and then execute: examples being a case dispositive claim construction, an inoperable suggestion of how the prior art operates, or a strategy that combined invalidity, damages and the lapse of time.

A partner since 1996, he is located in the Silicon Valley office and serves as the head of the Silicon Valley IP Group.