As Co-Chair of the Intellectual Property Section for the Bar Association of Montgomery County (BAMC), I am pleased to report that the IP Section is having a series of presentations on the fundamentals of intellectual property law at the Bar headquarters in Rockville, Maryland. http://montbar.site-ym.com/?62
With the increasing value of intellectual property in today’s economy, as well as the ongoing controversies, non-IP professionals, whether attorneys, scientists, business people, and interested citizens, all want to better understand the workings of these legal principles and tools. The first meeting was an overview of all IP rights.
The next meeting, November 11, 2015, will be directed to the basics of patents, with the more detailed issues, legislation and controversies covered in in more detail in a subsequent meeting on December 1, 2015. Copyrights and trademarks will be covered in 2016.
As the speaker, I can say that the material will cover not only the law, but will include anecdotes about famous cases and inventors, putting the material into the context of the times. My materials have been collected and coalesced over the last 16 years as part of an in-depth course I teach at SMU to engineers, business people, teachers, students and other interested parties.
If anyone has any questions about the course and these meetings, please do not hesitate to contact me.
For attendees, I require an RSVP so that I can gauge the audience and handle logistics. So, if learning a little about IP law is of interest, this series of presentations will do the trick. I look forward to meeting you there!
Ray Van Dyke, Co-Chair, Intellectual Property Section, BAMC
202.378.3903 vandyke@acm.org
Van Dyke Intellectual Property Law 