Events
Structuring for Success: Legal Tools for Healthcare Inventors and Startups
Friday, November 7, 2025 2:00pm to 7:00pm
Join the University of Iowa Office of Innovation for Structuring for Success: Legal Tools for Healthcare Inventors and Startups, a half-day event designed to equip startup founders and students with essential legal insights for launching and growing successful ventures. Hosted in collaboration with Wilson Sonsini—one of the nation’s leading law firms serving technology, life sciences, and growth enterprises—this event will feature in-depth sessions on critical legal topics tailored to innovators...
The mission of the IBL Center is threefold:
- To offer speakers and programs that enrich the College of Law's curriculum pertaining to the laws governing entrepreneurship, creativity, competition, technology and corporations.
- To provide support to students who seek to build careers in these areas.
- To engage law students, faculty, and the public in cutting-edge discussions about legal issues raised by technological advancements.
We accomplish this mission by:
- Hosting academics, practitioners and judges who interact directly with students.
- Supporting student organizations such as the Intellectual Property Law Society, IP Moot Court teams, and the Journal of Corporation Law.
- Providing summer stipends for students doing unpaid legal work in intellectual property, technology, corporate or business law, antitrust, health law, and related fields.
Areas of law encompassed by the center's mission include:
- Intellectual Property Law, including copyright, patent, and trademark law;
- Antitrust and Competition Law;
- Business Associations and Securities Law.
Director and Funding
The Director of the IBL Center is Jason Rantanen, and its activities are entirely supported by the David M. Hellwege, JD '73 Fund.
