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Securing Your IP: Legal Tools for Startup Innovation, Branding, Trademarks, and Patents

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Morrison Foerster and Duke’s Blue Venture Community invite you to a seven-part series focused on the legal building blocks of...

Morrison Foerster and Duke’s Blue Venture Community invite you to a seven-part series focused on the legal building blocks of launching and scaling a startup. Hosted at Morrison Foerster’s New York office, each session offers early-stage entrepreneurs the opportunity to connect, collaborate, and gain valuable legal insights to help grow their ventures.Session 5 (November 5): Securing Your IP: Legal Tools for Startup Innovation, Branding, Trademarks, and PatentsPresented by: Nate Vogler & TBDTopics covered:<ul><li>IP Ownership and Strategy</li><li>Strategic Partnerships and Licensing Transactions </li><li>Trademarks</li><li>Patents </li></ul>To RSVP for upcoming events in this series, see our full schedule below:To register your interest in other sessions, please RSVP by clicking its title below. You must register for each session individually.<ul><li>December 10: <a href="https://www2.mofo.com/l/323401/2025-05-13/bngxy" target="_blank">Legal Considerations in Data Privacy and International Compliance</a></li><li>January 14, 2026: <a href="https://www2.mofo.com/l/323401/2025-05-13/bngy2" target="_blank">Exit Strategies for Founders: Legal Considerations and Deal Dynamics</a></li></ul><hr>

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Nathan Vogler is a Partner in the firm’s Patent Group and heads the patent group’s Materials Science and Energy Storage practice. His practice concentrates on domestic and international patent prosecution, IP due diligence, IP counseling, IP portfolio management, and IP litigation support including patent infringement and validity determinations. Nathan has handled matters in all stages of patent prosecution, including new application drafting, office action responses, patent appeals, and continuation and divisional filings. He has drafted and prosecuted patents in various technology areas, including polymer chemistry, composite materials, industrial processing, nanotechnology, catalysts, batteries, magnets, consumer electronics, and software. In addition, Nathan has experience handling reexaminations, reissue applications, and supplemental examinations before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.In addition to his patent prosecution experience, Nathan also has considerable experience in adversarial proceedings before the USPTO including inter partes review proceedings instituted by the America Invents Act. He has experience representing both Petitioners and Patent Owners, and has represented clients in all stages of the proceedings, such as drafting petitions, patent owner responses, expert depositions, and oral hearings before the PTAB.Representative completed post-grant matters include the following:<ul><li>IPR2021-00210, -00211, -00213: Successfully defended patent owner Malvern against three inter partes reviews, resulting in petition denials.</li><li>IPR2017-01312: Successfully defended patent owner HML. The USPTO found all claims patentable in a final written decision.</li><li>IPR2014-01266, -01313: Defended patent owner HML against two inter partes reviews by different parties, resulting in claim survival or petition denial.</li></ul>Nathan received his J.D. with high honors from The George Washington University Law School, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif and was a member of the George Washington Law Review. He received his B.S. in chemical engineering, with a minor in chemistry, summa cum laude from Purdue University. While in law school, Mr. Vogler was a summer associate at Morrison Foerster.Nathan is admitted to practice in Massachusetts, Virginia and District of Columbia and is registered to practice before the USPTO.

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