Winnipeg Data Science Meet-Up (May 21, 2024)

To attend this meet-up event in-person, please RSVP on this meetup.com event page.

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Featured Presentation:

Patenting Artificial Intelligence Inventions

• Can a Machine "Invent" ?
• Who can be an Inventor ?
• Can we omit a Machine as an Inventor ?
• What are the new USPTO guidelines ?
• Can a Machine be an Inventor under the Canadian Patent Act ?

Join us in this thought provoking presentation and discussion with a leading Patent Litigation Lawyer, who is listed in The Best Lawyers in America® for Litigation – Patent, 2024.

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Featured Speaker:

• George Summerfield, Partner, K&L Gates

George Summerfield has more than 30 years of patent litigation experience, including matters in district court, the U.S. International Trade Commission, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and the European Patent Office.

George began his career as a Staff Attorney with the Office of Unfair Import Investigations of the United States International Trade Commission, where he handled numerous Section 337 cases in a variety of technologies on behalf of the Office.

After leaving the ITC, George entered private practice, where he began representing private parties, including two major research institutions appearing as complainants, before the ITC. He also began handling matters in various federal district courts throughout the United States, where his clients included several Fortune 500 companies. As with his work at the ITC, George’s litigation efforts in private practice have run the technological gamut.

By the time he joined K&L Gates, George had served as first chair patent litigator in several dozen intellectual property litigation matters before district courts and the ITC. He has also served as amici counsel for numerous universities and university-related organizations in intellectual property matters pending before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Since joining the firm, George has continued, and expanded upon, his intellectual property litigation practice, appearing in more than half a dozen Section 337 cases before the ITC in his first three years at the firm.

George is active in the Richard Linn American Inn of Court, which focuses on the practice of Intellectual Property Law. He has also provided assistance to several Eastern European governments in drafting intellectual property laws through programs administered by the United States Department of State, the United States Information Agency, and the Central and Eastern European Law Institute.

George Summerfield was awarded two Fulbright Scholarships to Romania; and holds a J.D. from Wayne State University Law School, and a B.A. from King's College.

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Event Corporate Sponsors:

• K&L Gates

• Canada Computing

• Launch Coworking

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Important to know:

• $10 in-person attendance donation (optional) is welcomed to cover for provided Hot Food, Appetizers, & Drinks.

• Free attendance for full-time students.

• A Door Prize draw will be held. Must be in attendance at Launch Exchange during prize draw to win.

• Students are encouraged to join the Winnipeg Data Science Meet-Up Group and interact with the many professional Data Scientists, Data Engineers, Data Analysts and hiring managers at this event.