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Intellectual Property Law: What Every Paralegal Should Know! |
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Nevin Schaffer This presentation gives the participants the information they need to confidently identify and distinguish a patent issue from a copyright, a trade secret from a trademark and much more. It enables participants to understand the scope and limits of each form of intellectual property protection and the time and cost involved to obtain them. Further, it provides participants with a strategy for them to share with their firms to use to help their clients protect their intellectual property from start to finish. John Nevin Shaffer, Jr. earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1970, and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Houston at Clear Lake City in 1976. He received his Juris Doctor degree from St. Mary's University and was admitted to the Texas and U.S. Patent Bars in 1980. He was admitted to the Florida Bar in 2002 and is a Florida Bar Board Certified Intellectual Property Law specialist.
As a registered
patent attorney, Nevin may practice patent law in all fifty states.
Nevin is licensed to practice before the United States Patent and
Trademark Office, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the
Texas and Florida Supreme Courts, and all lesser Texas and Florida
courts. He has published articles and written a book, Protect Your
Great Ideas for Free!, on intellectual property law and is a
professional speaker. He regularly conducts lectures and seminars on the
subject at local universities, businesses and professional
associations. Nevin has prosecuted applications for a variety of
electrical and mechanical devices, including computer software
applications, semi-conductor devices, and sophisticated measuring
devices. He has also successfully litigated patent, trademark, and
copyright infringement actions, including presenting the winning oral
argument at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in a patent
infringement case. |
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