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Open Development of Medical Devices

Date: 11:30am, Wednesday, August 11th
Location: Atlantic 1
Topic: Legal
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Now that the benefits of collaborative development have been firmly established and dependence on open source software in a wide variety of industries for mission critical computing has repeatedly demonstrated its rock-solid reliability, we are beginning to see the emergence of open, collaborative development as the preferred method of addressing life threatening problems. Join us for a discussion of two fascinating examples of how open development models can be deployed for everyone's benefit in the context of medical devices.

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Karen Copenhaver, The Linux Foundation

Karen Copenhaver is a partner in Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP's Business & Technology practice focusing on technology transfer and licensing of intellectual property with a specific emphasis on open source business models. Most recently, Copenhaver was executive vice president and general counsel at Black Duck Software, Inc.

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Timothy Prestero, Design that Matters

Timothy is a cofounder of Design that Matters and the related ThinkCycle initiative. He is co-inventor on three patents for cholera treatment devices. He is a graduate of the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering, holding M.S. degrees in Mechanical and Oceanographic Engineering, and a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Davis. Timothy was a Peace Corps volunteer in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa in the Urban Environmental Management program, where he worked as a consulting engineer and project manager for a city public works department. He has traveled throughout West Africa, Latin America and Asia. He is fluent in French. He is a Martin Fellow at the MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment, and was named an Ashoka Affiliate in 2004.

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Karen Sandler, Software Freedom Law Center

Karen M. Sandler comes to the SFLC after working as an associate in the corporate departments of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in New York and Clifford Chance in New York and London. Sandler received her law degree from Columbia Law School in 2000, where she was a James Kent Scholar and co-founder of the Columbia Science and Technology Law Review. Sandler received her bachelor's degree in engineering from The Cooper Union. She is admitted to practice in the State of New York. She is also an officer of the Software Freedom Conservancy.

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