News - Gulf Coast Intellectual Property Association

April 14, 2016

Help Tulane startups win the People’s Choice Award at the Rice Business Plan Competition

This weekend, two Tulane startups are competing in the Rice Business Plan Competition and need your votes to win the People’s Choice Award and $5,000 in cash. Click here to cast your vote!

Bioinnovation Ph.D. students Nick Pashos and Derek Dashti each have a startup competing among 42 total companies competing for more than 60 awards and $1.3 million in prize money. Nick’s company Bioaesthetics is developing an off-the-shelf product to provide complete nipple and areola replacement after a mastectomy. Derek founded D&P Bioinnovations, which is developing an implantable device to repair damage to a patient’s esophagus.

Please click here to vote before this Saturday, 4/16/16, at 1 PM. The winner of the People’s Choice Award will be announced Saturday evening. More details about the companies can be found here.

Thank you!

October 1, 2015

GCIPA Fall Meeting – November 4, 2015

The GCIPA will hold its fall meeting on November 4, 2015, in conjunction with the Tech Transfer Team at Stennis Space Center. The meeting will run from 8:30 AM to 6 PM at INFINITY Science Center at Stennis.

Member pricing: $35 before Oct. 16, $40 from Oct. 17 to on-site registration.

Non-member pricing: $45 before Oct. 16, $50 from Oct. 17 to on-site registration.

To view the agenda and to register, click here.

To join the GCIPA and take advantage of the member discount, click here.

October 31, 2014

Presentation slides from Marc Katsanis

Follow the link below to view a PDF of Marc Katsanis’s slides from yesterday’s panel discussion on Getting the Biggest Bang for the Buck: Getting the Most out of Non-patentable IP.

Thank you to Marc and the other panelists for a great presentation!

Marc_Katsanis_Chaffe-Associates_Getting the most out ofNontraditional IP

October 31, 2014

Register today for Advanced Materials and Manufacturing: A Statewide Industry-Academia Workshop on 11/7

The Louisiana Board of Regents’ EPSCoR Program Office cordially invites you to attend

Advanced Materials and Manufacturing:

A Statewide Industry-Academia Workshop

Hosted by the University of New Orleans

November 7, 2014

11:00 AM to 7:00PM

Loews Hotel, New Orleans

Attendees will include representatives from a variety of companies within the Louisiana manufacturing sector, and university researchers from all over the state who have expertise relevant to the sector. More details are included in the attached flyer.

Attendance is free but registration is required; discounted parking at the Loews Hotel is $10.00.

Click here to register: http://orsp.uno.edu/epscor-workshop