<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><div apple-content-edited="true"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt 41.25pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in; background-color: white; position: static; z-index: auto;"></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt 41.25pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">4.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><b><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Basics of Obtaining a Patent </span></b><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br><i>Anne Graham, Civil & Environmental Engineering Librarian</i><br>Mon Jan 26, 3:00 - 4:30 pm <br>Room 4-163 </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt 41.25pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Come and hear Jack Turner, Associate Director of the MIT Technology Licensing Office and patent attorney Sam Pasternack, discuss the ins and outs of obtaining patents. This popular session covers a bit of patent history and a lot about current practices, processes, and issues surrounding obtaining a patent; the focus is on the process used at MIT for ideas/inventions developed by the MIT community. A portion of the session is devoted to questions and answers. If you think you will ever invent something, you need to be here.<br><br><b>Please register at: <a href="http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=846292" target="_blank" style="color: purple;"><span style="color: rgb(122, 23, 0);">http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=846292</span></a></b><br>Web: <a href="http://libraries.mit.edu/patents" target="_blank" style="color: purple;"><span style="color: rgb(122, 23, 0);">http://libraries.mit.edu/patents </span></a><br>Contact: Anne Graham, 10-500, 617 253-7744, <a href="mailto:GRAHAMA@MIT.EDU" target="_blank" style="color: purple;">GRAHAMA@MIT.EDU</a> <br>Sponsor: Libraries <br>Cosponsor: Technology Licensing Office</span><o:p></o:p></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br><br></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div><br></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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