The Invent Blog

It’s nice seeing a CLE being put on for a good cause…”Credits for Conservation” is putting on a CLE next month (October 16-17) at the Four Seasons Resort in Jackson Hole, WY where “all proceeds will directly benefit land and water conservation in the Tetons and the non-profit work of Valley Advocates for Responsible Development & Friends of the Teton River.”

Topics:

• Prosecuting a US patent application: How to Keep your File Wrapper Clean.
• Designs, Copyrights and Trademarks: multiple forms of protection available for everyday objects.
• Writing and Amending a European Patent Application.
• Developing Leadership Skills in Your Office Personnel.
• The New US Patent Law – What you really need to know about it.
• Be a Hero to Your Technology Clients: Tell Them About the R and D Tax Credit.
• Managing the duty to disclose relevant prior art for patent applications filed in multiple jurisdictions.
• The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) process: How to use it efficiently.
• Working with Startups and Helping them to Liquidity Events
• Legal Ethics.
• Advanced Claim Drafting Workshop.

More Information: http://www.creditsforconservation.com

1. NAPP’s Patent Practice YahooGroup – “A Patent Practice Forum exclusively for Members of the National Association of Patent Practitioners.  Learn more about NAPP and join today at http://www.napp.org.” (Note:  in my opinion, the value that a new practitioner would get from the NAPP disussion group is worth the membership cost alone.)
2. INTA’s TMtopics – Trademark Email Discussion List – “a moderated email discussion list for the purpose of exchanging information and promoting discussion primarily about trademarks. Discussion about all aspects of trademark law is encouraged.” (free)
3. Carl Oppedahl’s Patent Cooperation Treaty Listserve (free)
4. Carl Oppedahl’s users of USPTO’s PAIR system Listserve (free)
5. Carl Oppedahl’s users of USPTO’s EFS-Web system Listserve (free)
6. Carl Oppedahl’s Madrid Protocol Listserve (free)
7. Carl Oppedahl’s users of USPTO’s TARR system Listserve (free)
8. Carl Oppedahl’s Copyright filers Listserve (free)
9. Carl Oppedahl’s users of USPTO’s trademark e-commerce systems Listserve (free)
10. Stephan Kinsella’s “Patent Law Practice” YahooGroup – “US Patent lawyers and agents and other IP lawyers exchange ideas, opinions, information, tips, gossip, and bounce ideas off each other. This list is limited to practicing IP attorneys, registered patent agents, and law professors.” (free)

From setting up my list of 150+ IP attorneys, agents and others using Twitter, I’ve come across a number of Twitter users (consider them “micro IP blogs”) that my readers might enjoy.  Note, each of these pages have a separate RSS feed you could subscribe to!

• http://twitter.com/IPmaven – Copyright, trademark and other intellectual property news, issues and commentary
• http://twitter.com/IPLawAlerts – JD Supra’s IP Law Alerts – Legal information on all aspects of IP, patent law, trademarks & related matters, published by leading attorneys and law firms on JD Supra.
• http://twitter.com/inventionsofman – cli.gs/FreePatentsOnline – Honoring Inventors and Inventions.
• http://twitter.com/patentmeter – patent stats and news