USPTO Seminar on “Protecting Small Business from Piracy and Counterfeiting Focus of Sessions”

According to the USPTO site today:

USPTO Kicks Off Series of Free IP Seminars in Salt Lake City May 23-24
Protecting Small Business from Piracy and Counterfeiting Focus of Sessions

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will conduct two-day seminars in four American cities this spring and summer. The seminars are designed to help promote and educate the American small business community about intellectual property and the realities of piracy and counterfeiting. The first seminar of the series will be held in Salt Lake City on May 23-24 at the University of Utah’s Gould Auditorium.

In each of the seminars, lawyers and other professionals from the USPTO will provide attendees with specific details and useful tips about how to protect and enforce their intellectual property rights in the United States and internationally in whatever countries they intend to market their products. Each program will be tailored to the particular needs of the city hosting the seminar. In this way the topics of special interest to that city’s business community can be addressed.

“America’s small business industries are a key to this nation’s continued economic vitality,” Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property Jon Dudas, commented. “Protecting patents, trademarks and copyrights is extremely important in today’s global marketplace. These seminars will be useful to anyone with an established business as well as entrepreneurs who are just starting up enterprises.”

There is no charge for the seminars, but seating is limited. Those who should consider attending include: business owners and entrepreneurs; independent inventors; corporate general counsels; and those interested in global trade, international markets and selling products abroad. You can register online now.

It isn’t often that we see the USPTO out here in our backyard. Of course, 5.5 hours away isn’t a “backyard” to most people. [Most people don’t realize that Boise is so remote…Salt Lake City (5.5 hours away) is the next closest metro area.] Thank God for HP and Micron (those two links are Google satellite maps of their campuses, for fun)…you can get a direct flight out of our local airport to about any place in the US.