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11.11
Seminar Examines
New Patent Law and its Potential Impact on
Inventors, Investors and Engineering Managers
By IEEE-USA staff
The America Invents Act (AIA)
that President Barack Obama signed into law last
month represents the biggest change to U.S.
patent law since 1870. On 22 October, IEEE-USA
and its new Intellectual Property Professionals
Initiative hosted a seminar at the George Mason
University in Fairfax, Va., to help those
interested in the patent process better
understand the law's potential impact.
The seminar was designed to be
an exposition of the new patent law with an
emphasis towards helping inventors and
engineering managers mitigate risks, protect
their inventions, and adapt their R&D and
business practices to this new law.
Speakers included Janet Gongola,
patent reform coordinator at the U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office, who discussed the USPTO
regulatory agenda. Additional speakers included
intellectual property (IP) attorneys, many of
whom specialize in technology patents.
The IEEE-USA IP Professionals
initiative is a program to educate
engineer-inventors and attorney/agent
practitioners on evolving IP issues. Recent
implementation of the AIA has driven IEEE-USA to
help educate attorney-members and engineers on
patent law changes so they can better align
their business practices. Through a combination
of IEEE Section outreach and partnership with
other organizations, IEEE-USA is providing
education on patent law changes, publication of
educational/scholarly works, and forums for
collaborating on patent law issues.
Video from the recent Section
event was captured at the request of members who
recognized the caliber of our speakers, but
could not attend the event. Please share this
event with your colleagues. The selection of
speakers was based on their participation in
public policy discussions over the past five
years as the AIA maturated through Congress —
and their presentations reflect concerns, as
well as benefits of the legislation. This makes
these presentations doubly valuable to IEEE's
members chartered with implementing structural
changes within their organizations in response
to enactment of AIA.
Video and speaker presentation
from the event can be found at:
http://www.ieeeusa.org/calendar/seminars/AIA-seminar/.
Comments may be submitted to
todaysengineer@ieee.org.
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