Intellectual Property Students' Organization

On Wednesday March 26th at 6:30pm in room 5246, David Hendrickson, will be speaking about the history of patent drawings, the technology involved in patent drawings, and the interactions between attorney, clients, and his company. His company has produced over 26,000 patent drawings since 1976. For more details, check out the company's website at http://www.dhdraw.com/. Pizza will be served.

TotalPatent / PatentOptimizer
3pm, Monday, April 7
Computer Classroom on the 2nd floor of the library

Thought your god-like student access to Lexis/Nexis had access to everything? Think again!

If you're thinking about patent prosecution, there are two tools that Lexis offers that you don't have access to... until now.

We've arranged with Carolyn Bach to get a brief introduction to TotalPatent with a little about PatentOptimizer as well. These are tools you're likely to see in prosecution at firms. It will also give you an idea of what software tools can do.

>From the website:

TotalPatent™
Protect your intellectual property and optimize its potential with the most comprehensive and relevant, yet easy-to-use, patent research, analysis, and retrieval system available anywhere.

PatentOptimizer™
PatentOptimizer™ helps you construct well-tailored patent applications that yield stronger, more defensible patents. An effective analysis tool during litigation, the service can quickly deconstruct online-issued patents and pinpoint ambiguities, issues, or problems that have previously gone undetected.

Hope to see you then!
IPSO