“A Legal Toolbox for Innovators: Intellectual Property Overview”

June's Innovators' Workshop is a "must" for anyone developing, or even thinking of developing a new product or business. Learn what protections to put in your innovation toolbox before it's too late and your great idea is taken away from you!

Our speaker, IP attorney January Allen, will talk about:

Non-Disclosure Agreements

Non-Compete Agreements

Trade Secrets

Trademarks

o Purpose

o Selection, Search & Clearance

o Common law vs. registration

o State vs. federal registrations

Cost of filing

Scope of protection

Copyrights

o Copyrightable subject matter

o Inception v. registration

o How to register and why it is important

o Scope of protection

Patents

o Patentable subject matter

o Types of patents

o Filing an application

6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 8, 2016

$1.00 per person suggested donation at the door to cover cost of the refreshments.

Location: Golden City Hall, 911 10th Street, Golden, CO

Low cost but highly effective sponsorships for this workshop are available. Sponsors will be included in promotion materials and given the opportunity to present a brief talk on their company or service. Contact Deborah Deal-Blackwell at 303-277-9520 for more information.

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January Allen (above) is currently a partner at OMH (Overturf, McGath & Hull) in Denver, specializing in intellectual property (IP) transactional work and general civil litigation. While Jefferson County has been home base since childhood, she moved far and wide with her military family, earning a B.S. in Biology at the College of Charleston and her J.D. in Hawaii before settling back in Colorado.

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January has been admitted to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office for the past ten years. She is passionate about helping innovator, artist, and entrepreneur clients identify and implement the legal protections necessary to safeguard the fruits of their intellectual labors. Married to an engineer for one of Golden’s local bike industry companies, she is also the proud mother of two little boys.

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The JeffCo Innovators' Workshop is a public service and economic development project of the IX Power Foundation, Inc. and the City of Golden's Economic Development Commission.

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http://www.cityofgolden.net/work/economic-development/

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http://www.ixpowerfoundation.org

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THANK YOU HOLIDAY BREWING and Karen Hertz for hosting our May meetup! We enjoyed hearing how you built your gluten-free beer company into a successful enterprise!

Visit Holidaily Brewing at: http://www.holidailybrewing.com

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