Some of the featured speakers that will participate in the 12th
Annual Independent Inventors conference are:
Margaret J. A. Peterlin, Deputy Under Secretary
of Commerce and Deputy Director of the United States Patent and Trademark
Office
Margaret Focarino, Deputy Commissioner for Patent
Operations, United States Patent and Trademark Office
Elaine F. Marshall, North Carolina Secretary of
State
Michael Sykes, 2007 Modern Marvels Invent Now® Challenge
Monica P. Doss, President and CEO, Council for
Entrepreneurial Development (CED)
Allen R.Baum, President of the Licensing Executive
Society, (USA and Canada)
Louis J. Foreman, Inventor and founder of Enventys
The afternoons will consist of 5 concurrent breakout sessions. You
will have the opportunity to select the session that will best fulfill
your needs.
Friday afternoon, Saturday morning and Saturday afternoon the USPTO
Supervisory Patent Examiners and attorneys from the North Carolina
Bar Association will be on hand to sit down with you one-on-one for
15 minutes. Even if you don’t have the opportunity to sign up for a
one-on-one, the USPTO Supervisory Patent Examiners will be available
Friday evening at the networking reception and throughout the conference.
The hands-on patent searching and hands-on trademark searching breakout
sessions are limited to 30 people per class, please plan on signing
up for those sessions at the registration table Friday beginning at
lunch (approximately 12:15).
