COME AND LEARN: Andrea Evans, a former US Patent Examiner and a former US Trademark Examining Attorney for the United States Patent and Trademark Office, will share WHAT inventors need to know about Intellectual Property rights. LEARN:
• How and Why to Apply for a PROVISIONAL PATENT
• How PATENTS are Reviewed and Evaluated
• How TRADEMARKS are Reviewed and Evaluated
• Why and When to use Copyrights
• What 3 Things every Inventor must know about Maintaining INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
THE SPEAKER - Andrea Evans, Patent Attorney, is a Former Patent Examiner and Trademark Examining Attorney at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. She has a JD from The George Washington Law School, Washington, DC. Her undergraduate work includes degrees in Civil Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA; and a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Spelman College; Atlanta, GA.
She is a member of the Texas State Bar, United States Patent and Trademark Office Patent Bar, and United States Supreme Court Bar. Andrea received both the Nation’s Best Advocate of the Year Award and the Nation’s Best Advocates: “40 Lawyers Under 40” award from the National Bar Association (NBA) and IMPACT.
Andrea is the owner of The Law Firm of Andrea Hence Evans, LLC (www.evansiplaw.com). She can be found on all social media @evansiplaw. She’s the author of bestsellers, All About Trademarks and All About Inventing both on Amazon or at www.evansiplaw.com/books.
Participate in a Research Project - 30 minutes - $30 Gift card!
Investigating how local knowledge centers such as the Patent and Trademark Resource Center (PTRCs) influence patent inventing activities of inventors in the region. As the qualative part of our research, we have interviewed many librarians who oversee PTRCs, including Walt Johnson of Hennepin Public Library who you may know, and USPTO officials to learn more about these centers and get insights from their experiences. We want to complement our research with interviews with inventors, who are the users of PTRCs.
We would like to interview any inventors who have experiences of using PTRCs. The interview would most likely be conducted via phone call or Zoom, and we would just like to ask some questions about their experiences at PTRCs. We plan on having the interview to be about 30 minutes and we will be compensating for 30 minutes of their time with $30 worth of Amazon Gift Card.
