Agenda

REGISTRATION - TOPICS - SPEAKERS - DIRECTIONS - LODGING - AGENDA

  PLEASE NOTE AGENDA'S ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE - so please check  back prior to the conference

• Wednesday, November 4, 2009 - This is the pre-conference session from 5:00 - 7:00 that will cover patent basics
  
  
• Thursday, November 5, 2009 - to be posted at a later date
• Friday, November 6, 2009 - to be posted at a later date

Some of the featured speakers that will participate in the 14th Annual Independent Inventors conference are:

David Kappos, Under Secretary of Commerce and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office

Louis Foreman, Chief Executive of Enventys®, Executive Producer of the award winning national PBS reality show, Everyday Edisons

Stephen Key, award-winning inventor who has licensed over 20 ideas in the past 30 years and holds 12 U.S. Patents.

Richard Kilmer, Director, Manufacturing Extension Partnership, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Thom Ruhe, Director of Entrepreneurship for Kauffman Foundation

 

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