BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20180311T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20171105T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171024T050311Z UID:9E359F73-B869-11E7-A02F-0050568D7F66 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171109T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171109T203000 DESCRIPTION:Every engineer dreams of obtaining a patent. Stuart Shapiro and Patrick Finnan will take you through the journey of the steps involved\, what typically qualifies and what you can do yourself and what might be be st left to a patent attorney. Along the way they will share some interesti ng examples of patents\, challenges from trolls and getting a patent in a corporate environment. They will also talk about how the patent system can be used as an effective tool for engineers learning about what is already available and ways to save on development time by reviewing prior designs . There will be ample time for questions\, answers and networking so you c an get specific information of interest.\n\nCo-sponsored by: CH02100 - Nor thern Virginia/Balt/Wash Jt Sections Chap\,SIT30\n\nSpeaker(s): Patrick\, Stuart\, Patrick\, Stuart\n\nAgenda: \n6:30 Dinner and Networking\n\n7:00 Program\n\n8:00 Discussion and Networking\n\nBldg: Tall Sodexo Building\, Free parking in garage next door\, 9801 Washingtonian Blvd\, 2nd Floor Con ference Room\, Gaithersburg\, Maryland\, United States\, 20878 LOCATION:Bldg: Tall Sodexo Building\, Free parking in garage next door\, 98 01 Washingtonian Blvd\, 2nd Floor Conference Room\, Gaithersburg\, Marylan d\, United States\, 20878 ORGANIZER:dougholly@ieee.org SEQUENCE:3 SUMMARY:The IP Guys\, Two Engineers Turned Lawyers to Encourage and Protect our Intellectual Property URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/47919 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p><span style="font-size: 14pt\;"><em>Every engineer dreams of obtaining a patent. Stuart Shapiro and Patrick Finnan w ill take you through the journey of the steps involved\, what typically qu alifies and what you can do yourself and what might be best left to a pate nt attorney. Along the way they will share some interesting examples of pa tents\, challenges from trolls and getting a patent in a corporate environ ment. They will also talk about how the patent system can be used as an ef fective tool for engineers learning about what is already available and wa ys to save on development time by reviewing prior designs. There will be a mple time for questions\, answers and networking so you can get specific i nformation of interest.</em></span></p><br /><br />Agenda: <br /><p>6:30 D inner and Networking</p>\n<p>7:00 Program</p>\n<p>8:00 Discussion and Netw orking</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR