STOPfakes Roadshow: Intellectual Property Rights Seminar

Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024 | 9am-4pm Pacific | San Jose, CA | $50

Join experts from the U.S. Department of Commerce, FBI, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, and U.S. Copyright Office for a one-day program to ensure your company has the tools and knowledge required to protect your intellectual property at home and abroad.

The STOPfakes Roadshow delivers critically important information about intellectual property to the audience that needs it most—start-ups, entrepreneurs, small and medium-sized businesses, independent creators, and inventors. Information is presented by experts from multiple government agencies that specialize in intellectual property issues.

Topics include:

• How to identify and protect your company’s various intellectual property assets (trademarks, patents, copyrights, and trade secrets)
• Mechanisms for obtaining IP protection in overseas markets and strategies for determining where to seek protection
• How to combat counterfeits on international e-commerce sites
• U.S. government resources available at the Department of Commerce, Copyright Office, CBP, and the FBI to help U.S. businesses with intellectual property issues.

• One-on-One Meetings Participants can meet with the speakers for 10-minute sessions to discuss an IP issue they have. Space is limited and will be filled on a first come, first serve basis.
• Apply for Copyright and Trademark Recordation On-Site U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) staff will help navigate the recordation application portal and process.  Trademark recordation is $190 per international class of goods, and copyrights are $190 per application; it takes about 40 minutes. Bring your laptop!

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