SCORE: Understanding, Protecting, and Managing Intellectual Property.

SCORE is pleased to present a webinar on Understanding, Protecting, and Managing Intellectual Property. Wheaton, IL. based Patent Attorney Eric Waltmire, of the Erickson Law Group, will discuss intellectual property issues for entrepreneurs and businesses. More specifically, the presentation will address the following topics:

1. whether and how to protect your inventions under patent law,
2. how to select, protect, and build a brand through trademark protection,
3. how to protect your creative work under copyright law,
4. how to maintain or obtain ownership over the intellectual property created by your company, employees, and contractors, and
5. what to do when others copy your creative work.

Eric Waltmire will be the Facilitator of this Workshop. Eric is a registered patent attorney at the Erickson Law Group in Wheaton, where he handles matters in the areas of patents, trademarks, copyrights, licensing, and intellectual property strategy. Eric is the prior Editor-in-Chief of DuPage County, IL. Bar Association's legal journal, the DCBA Brief. He also a prior member of the ISBA IP Section Council and has served as the chairman of the Internet & Computer Law Subcommittee. Before joining the Erickson Law Group, he was a staff attorney for the judges of the Eighteenth Circuit Court of Illinois in Wheaton. Eric maintains a blog focusing on patent and trademark law at waltmire.com