Pittsburgh PDMA Innovation Forum Series Presents: Ned Uber - Demystifying Patents and How to Create the Million Dollar Patent | Nov. 13th

 

Presented by Ned Uber, Ph.D.

Wednesday, November 13, 2013
4:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh - Squirrel Hill 

Patents seem to be written in a foreign language, and the lack thereof has been the downfall of many startups. Ned Uber, Fellow at Bayer Healthcare and Pittsburgh's 2013 Inventor of the Year, will discuss how to use, create, and benefit from patents. 

During this valuable presentation, you will learn:  

• What patents can and cannot do for you and your organization

• Common pitfalls and strategies to avoid them

• Tools to help you create more valuable patents

Agenda

4:00 - 4:30 p.m.     Registration Open and Networking
4:30 - 5:45 p.m.     Presentation and QA

Early-Bird Registration

Members: $25   
Non-Members: $40
Student: $10

On-Site Registration

Members: $30  
Non-Members: $45
Student: $15

REGISTER TODAY

About the Speaker

Ned Uber is Pittsburgh's 2013 Inventor of the year, with 60+ US patents and many more foreign patents. He has been with Medrad/Schering/Bayer for 30+ years. His inventions are in a variety of their products and have provided the base technology for several start-ups. He is also a team facilitator and guest lecturer to CMU, Pitt, and other schools and organizations.

How strategic is your intellectual property?

Commentary from Jeff Thompson - PDMA Chapter President 

We recently retained IP Capital Group out of Vermont to help us put some meat around this for one of our major innovation programs.   Early this week I saw a preview of the output and the strategy suggestions – wow does this look like money well spent!

It was a bit of a project and took some engagement of our teams to get all the right data to IPCapital but it is clear this is opening our eyes and helping us focus better on opportunities and issues.   I’m definitely seeing the IP strategy issues more clearly even with the preliminary work.

To help team members prepare for the discussion I sent a few of the early slides to the team; I had one of our VP’s respond already speaking about how effective the work was in helping surface issues and opportunity – a great start!

Registration is open for the upcoming May 16th Innovation Forum featuring Jeff Thompson on   

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