Patent & Trademark Day
The Patent & Trademark Resource Center at Texas A&M University Libraries' West Campus Library invites you to Patent & Trademark Day.
Come and join us as two staff members from the United States Patent & Trademark Office provide valuable information on intellectual property and show the audience how to perform patent and trademark searches. The speakers will be Dr. Michael Hydorn, a medicinal chemist, marine biologist, and former patent examiner, and Daphne Joseph, a librarian at the Patent & Trademark Resource Center Program Office.
| When? | February 20, 2013 at 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. |
| Where? | Texas A&M University, Evans Library, Room 204E |
Registration is required. Please click here to REGISTER.
| 9:00 a.m. | Sign-In and Pick Up Registration Packets (Breakfast will be provided) |
| 9:30 a.m. | Welcome |
| 9:35 a.m. | Overview of Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights and Trade Secrets |
| 10:45 a.m. | Break (Snacks will be provided) |
| 11:00 a.m. | Conducting a Preliminary U.S. Patent Search Using USPTO Databases |
| 11:45 a.m. | Lunch (On Your Own) |
| 1:15 p.m. |
Local Resource Panel
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| 1:45 p.m. |
PTRC Services at Texas A&M University West Campus Library
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| 2:00 p.m. | Conducting a Preliminary Federal Trademark Search Using USPTO Databases |
| 3:00 p.m. | Break (Snacks will be provided) |
| 3:15 p.m. | PubWEST: Patent Databases for Power Searching |
| 3:45 p.m. |
Review and Questions; Adjournment Video: Promoting Innovation: Today's USPTO |
Visitor Parking: The Central Campus Garage is located next to the Evans Library. Click on the link for parking rates.
If you have any questions about this event, please contact Jared Hoppenfeld at jhoppenf@tamu.edu.