November 14-20 is Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW)

Posted on August 24, 2011 by Richard Gearhart

ARE YOU READY?!

November 14-20 is Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW)

www.unleashingideas.org

Created by the Kauffman Foundation, participation in this event gives you a chance to meet experts, get help, and maybe even win a contest – see a few below.

If you haven’t checked out the Kauffman Foundation website, www.kauffman.org,

you should! The Kauffman Foundation is the world’s largest foundation dedicated to entrepreneurship.

Global Entrepreneurship Week kicks off with start-up weekends in cities around the globe. The US dates and locations are:

November 11-13:                                November 18-20

Baton Rouge, LA                                 Bloomington, IN

Champaign, IL                                     Boulder, CO

Kansas City, MO                                  Cambridge, MA

New Haven, CT                                    Indianapolis, IN

Princeton, NJ                                        Las Vegas, NV

Seattle, WA                                            Lexington, KY

                                                                Orange County, CA

                                                New York, NY

                                                San Francisco, CA

 

For our clients and friends outside the US, dates and locations for other countries are:

                                                                                   

November 11-13                                 November 18-20

Aarhus, Denmark                                 Cairo, Egypt

Bucharest, Romania                           Calgary, Canada

Buenos Aires, Argentina                     Copenhagen, Denmark

Manama, Bahrain                                 Geneva, Switzerland

Skopje, Macedonia                               Halifax, Canada

                                                                  Sao Paolo, Brazil

                                                                 Strasbourg, France

                                                                 Toronto, Canada

                                                                 Vancouver, Canada

                                                                 Warsaw, Poland

 

The Gearhart Law patent firm is based in the US but we have clients worldwide. Visit us at www.gearhartlaw.com to see the range of languages our team is fluent in. 

To learn more about GEW, visit their website at www.unleashingideas.org. 

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Some of the GEW contests are:

Startup Open – see their website at www.startupopen.com .

Cleantech Open Global Ideas Competition – see their website at www.cleantechopen.com – this one gives you a chance to win $100,000 in support and services.

Your Big Year – DEADLINE 9/1/11 – travel the world for a year! See their website at www.yourbigyear.com.   Even if you miss the deadline, there’s other great info. waiting for you there.

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We hope you find this information useful, and whatever your endeavors, we wish you success!

Elizabeth Gearhart, Ph.D.

Patent Agent

Gearhart Law

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Patent Assignments

Posted on February 3, 2010 by Richard Gearhart

               Patents are property so, like any property, ownership can be transferred from one person or company to another. A patent attorney can help prepare an assignment for the inventor. 

               A “patent assignment” is the legal document that makes this transfer happen.

A common type of assignment is the transfer of ownership of the patent or patent application from the inventor to the inventor’s LLC.

 In the United States, patents are filed in the name of the inventor. If the inventor has patented the invention, the inventor can keep ownership of the patent in his or her name, or they can make it an asset of an LLC. If the patent or patent application is to be owned by the LLC, an assignment is executed by the inventor and the transfer becomes effective.

If there are multiple inventors on a patent application, then both inventors may assign the patent to the LLC. The LLC document (or operating agreement) can spell out how the profits from the venture are to be allocated.

            Inventors often sell their patent as a way to profit from it. An assignment will also be executed if the patent is sold to a third party.

            Inventors who invent for their employer may have an employment contract that requires them to assign the patent to the employer. An assignment will be executed in this case. Again, a patent lawyer will help prepare the needed documentation.

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