Patent and Trademark Resource Center Grand Opening and Seminar
A free seminar for inventors, entrepreneurs, educators, students and legal professionals

Please join the University of Idaho College of Law for the grand opening of its new Patent and Trademark Resource Center (PTRC). United States Patent and Trademark Office staff will welcome attendees and provide insightful seminars into the PTRC search tools and resources.

Agenda:

8:30 Sign-In

9:00 Welcome

9:10 Overview of Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights, and Trade Secrets

10:30 Break

10:45 Conducting a Preliminary U.S. Patent Search Using USPTO Databases (1.25 CLE credits pending)

12:00 Lunch (on your own, food map of restaurants within walking distance will be provided)

1:00 Grand Opening Ceremony

1:15 Conducting a Preliminary Trademark Search Using USPTO Databases (1.25 CLE credits pending)

2:30 Break

2:45 Invention Promotion Scams: Asking the Right Questions

3:15 Local Resource Panel
Paul Cooperrider, Idaho Small Business Development Center
Dan Faricy, Trailhead Boise
Heidi Jarvis-Grimes, Idaho Technology Council

4:30 Light Reception

Parking Directions:

Parking for the Idaho Water Center is through Car Park USA, and is $1 per hour (first hour is free).

If you are coming from the west (or Myrtle street), take a left on Avenue A past the Winco, go through the light on Front street, through the parking attendant booth (pull a ticket), and turn right into the garage that goes under the building.

If you are coming from the east (Broadway and Front) down Front street, take a right on Avenue A through the parking attendant booth (pull a ticket), and turn right into the garage that goes under the building.

You can park anywhere in this garage, or the garage under the apartment buildings to the west of the Idaho Water Center, except in spaces that say 2-hour parking or reserved for permit holders.

To get to the Legacy Pointe Room from the Garage, take the elevators on the far wall (painted bright yellow) up to the first floor, and follow the paper directional signs around the corner and down the hallway to Legacy Pointe.