Discovery Park to offer patent, intellectual property workshop
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The free event is open only to Purdue faculty, researchers, students and staff. The law firm of Bose McKinney & Evans, the Burton Morgan Center and the Office of Technology Commercialization are co-sponsoring the workshop. Preregistration is encouraged.
"From lab notebooks to what is needed to start a patent application, the workshop will focus on legal requirements for obtaining a patent and practical tools so inventors on campus can protect their inventions," said Julie Goonewardene, associate director of technology commercialization for Discovery Park and Purdue.
Answers to other research-related questions also will be addressed, including:
• What is a disclosure and how does it fit into the commercialization process?
• Why is it important to file a disclosure?
• What components are needed to write a good disclosure?
• What is the difference between publishing vs. patenting and public disclosure and confidentiality agreements?
"With Purdue's commitment to leveraging its resources to support economic development in Indiana, it is critical that faculty review their research for commercial applications. This seminar will give faculty the tools to help accomplish this," said Simran Trana, director of the Office of Technology Commercialization.
Eyal Barash, an intellectual property attorney for Bose McKinney & Evans, said today's economic opportunities are focused in advanced technologies, such as life sciences, advanced manufacturing and energy, and Purdue is a global leader in those research areas.
"The transition from opportunity to reality requires securing appropriate intellectual property rights," Barash said. "The disclosure seminar for the Purdue community is meant to educate inventors and others about the nuts and bolts of protecting intellectual property rights and explain how to convert those rights into economic gain for the inventors, the university and the public."
To register for the workshop, go online. The Burton Morgan Center is located at 1201 W. State St. at the intersection of Intramural Drive.
Goonewardene holds a joint appointment between the Burton Morgan Center and the Office of Technology Commercialization to ensure the smooth and successful transfer of technology from Discovery Park to the Purdue Research Park.
Discovery Park is Purdue's $330 million hub for interdisciplinary research and is home to 10 primary centers focusing on everything from biosciences and manufacturing to oncological sciences and health-care engineering.
The Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship is a platform to launch technology-based enterprises based on Purdue research. The Discovery Park center also helps faculty, students and Indiana entrepreneurs better understand how to bring research and technology to market.
Writer: Phillip Fiorini, (765) 496-3133, pfiorini@purdue.edu
Sources: Julie Goonewardene, (765) 496-7519, jkgoonewardene@prf.org
Simran Trana, (765) 494-6725, strana@prf.org
Eyal Barash, (765) 464-3200, ebarash@boselaw.com
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