With schools on spring break, I'm taking over this week's newsletters as Alanah gets some time with her kiddos. Before taking off, she reported the piece below that offers expert insights on tech transfer in Baltimore. We've also got a story about the Department of Justice's new lawsuit against Apple — and its unlikely location.  

— Sameer, Technical.ly editor

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As we all know, Baltimore has no shortage of biotech innovators nor creators willing to spin their companies out into commercial products. But as a venture expert from the University of Maryland, Baltimore told us, a mix of high costs, shifting investment priorities, trial timelines and other factors can make this process difficult for universities and companies alike. It's not impossible, though. 

“It’ll take a long time and take a lot of money to run all those trials,” Alastair Mackay said. “But if you do it, then you’ll be printing money because there’s so many old aging boomers.”

➡️ Find out more about tech transfer in Alanah's story here.

As the country's chief law enforcement agency seeks to hold Apple accountable under antitrust laws, one of our new articles examines why it's doing so in the Garden State. After all, neither Apple nor the DOJ are based there. 

“I’d guess that the DOJ thinks the law of the Third Circuit and the judges of the [District of New Jersey] are favorable to the case,” said Chris Sagers, a law professor at Cleveland State University.

➡️ Find out more about the lawsuit in our full report here.

• Our CEO Chris Wink draws on lessons from several venture capitalists and a South by Southwest panel to look at recent changes to the VC landscape, and why they matter now. [Technical.ly]

• Medical device startup Galen Robotics is being sued by former employees across four complaints in the city's circuit court. The workers accuse the company of not paying them full wages. [Baltimore Business Journal]

• The Towson-based IMAGE Center of Maryland and one of its programs, Volunteers for Medical Engineering, close out National Women's Month with a daily social media spotlight on women in local engineering throughout this week. [VME]

• According to a press release, 2023 RealLIST Startup ReBokeh has partnered with Towson U's StarTUp at the Armory to offer the top version of the company's signature assistive tech app to everyone who works there. [ReBokeh]