Legal Workshop: Protecting Your Brand, Inventions and Creative Expressions

Think you have something new and unique, and want to protect it from others? What is Intellectual Property (IP) and how would you protect it? What about a patent? Should I register a trademark or copyright, or how do I know if someone has infringed upon my brand? Get some answers and some some prospective on protecting your digital assets!

Where & When

March 11, 2026 4pm - 5:00pm - in the San Francisco State University Lam Family College of Business Innovation HUB (Humanities 125).

About the Host

Mark Ciotola is the head of Entrepreneurship Legal Resources for the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiatives at the Lam Family College of Business at San Francisco State University. Mark is a multi-time founder with backgrounds in industry (Genentech, Applied Biosystems, Intuit), NASA, and academia. His latest entrepreneurial venture involves working to better enable growing plants in space to benefit both space exploration and Earth agriculture.

Hosted by the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative in the Lam Family College of Business.

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