CHICAGO INVENTORS ORGANIZATION PRESENTS ``Pro Bono Help With Filing a Patent Application``

Calvin Flowers Executive Director at Chicago Inventors Organization

CHICAGO INVENTORS ORGANIZATION PRESENTS ``Pro Bono Help With Filing a Patent Application`` Calling All Inventors!!!! If you have a great idea and need Pro Bono help with filing your patent application, then you don't want to miss this event to see if you qualify. Come join the Chicago Inventors Organization to learn more about a program to provide pro bono legal services to independent inventors. Our Guest speaker will be Arthur Tan-Chi Yuan who is the director of the Chinese Intellectual Property Resource Center and an adjunct professor and director for the John Marshall Law School Patent Clinic. Yuan teaches a variety of practical patent courses at the John Marshall Law School, including Intellectual Property Survey (patent portion), Patent Attorney Opinions, Patent Planning and Practice, and Advanced Patent Clinic. He brings years of patent preparation and prosecution experiences: 6 years with intellectual property law firm Senniger Powers, LLP in St. Louis, Missouri and currently with the law firm Loeb & Loeb, LLP as a senior counsel. Arthur’s presentation will include: 1) the Patent Clinic work/submission process, 2) Patent Searching and 3) Patent Protection in general especially after the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA). The AIA represents the most significant change to the U.S. patent system since 1952. Admission to this fantastic public event is free for current members of the Chicago Inventor Organization and only $20.00 for the General Public. Register Online (www.chicago-inventors.org) or pay at the Door. For more information call 312-850-4710.