<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/about/newsroom/ubaltnews-thinkubator-workshop-how-to-protect-your-ideas.cfm" dsn="blogs"><featured>true</featured><pubDate>04/03/2026</pubDate><title>Online Workshop: How to Protect Your IP, with Expert Ken Malone, April 8 </title><description>Ken Malone, co-founder of Early Charm, a Baltimore-based venture studio with a mission to transform university inventions into successful commercial products, will lead a thinkUBator Workshop session on how ordinary people can safeguard their most valuable asset: their ideas. The online session, hosted by UBalt's Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation will take place on April 8. </description><author>UBalt News</author><image><img src="https://www.ubalt.edu/about/newsroom/assets/images/GlassesLaw.jpg" alt="Intellectual property requires legal protection"/></image><image-cap>Entrepreneurs improve their chances of success when they know how to protect their intellectual property</image-cap><quote/><quote-name/><quote-info/><tags><tag>Alumni</tag><tag>CEI</tag><tag>Main News</tag><tag>Merrick School of Business</tag><tag>career</tag><tag>students</tag></tags></item>