Inventors Network Monthly Meeting

INCA,

May 2014’s INCA meeting will be Monday May 19, 2014. The meeting is at the Tysons-Pimmit Regional Library in Falls Church, Virginia (http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/library/branches/ty/). The meeting will begin at 5:30 pm with networking. Networking includes pizza, snacks and drinks. Announcements and introductions start at 6:30 pm and the speaker is introduced shortly thereafter. This meeting is free and open to the public.

New York patent attorney, author and lecturer Ron Slusky (http://www.linkedin.com/in/patentseminar) will be speaking via Skype at this month’s meeting. Here is a description of the presentation as provided by the speaker: “Mr. Slusky strongly maintains that it’s a big mistake for inventors to prepare their own patent applications without significant involvement from an experienced patent lawyer. It takes years of mentoring and practice before one has the skills required to properly identify the inventive concept underlying the inventor’s embodiment and to draft patent claims that others cannot readily design around while still “ripping off” the invention.

That being said, Ron believes that in patent work – as in so many contexts – an educated consumer is the best customer. Mr. Slusky’s presentation will focus on familiarizing inventors with the analytical processes that goes into properly analyzing and claiming an invention. The idea is that by understanding what underpins the invention analysis process, an inventor is in a better position to work with a patent attorney or agent to ensure that the inventive ideas are properly captured in the patent application. Through this understanding the inventor may better assure him or herself that the patent practitioner is, as Ron puts it, “doing right by your invention.”

The program is an inventor-oriented version of the material that Mr. Slusky presents to patent practitioners in his “Invention Analysis and Claiming” seminar, www.sluskyseminars.com (http://www.sluskyseminars.com/), based on his acclaimed book Invention Analysis and Claiming: A Patent Lawyer’s Guide, 2nd Edition (American Bar Association, 2d ed. 2012). Topics will include: identifying the broad invention using the problem/solution paradigm; techniques for discovering the full breadth of the invention in view of the prior art; and the importance of preparing the patent application and its claims with the Anticipated Enforcement Scenario in mind.”

We hope to see you there,

Glen

Glen Kotapish


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