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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, andU.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.

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Date 9:00am - 4:00pm PDT on Tuesday, September 10, 2024 
Venue (in-person only): USPTO Silicon Valley Regional Office, 26 S. Fourth Street, San Jose, CA 
Cost: $50 (continental breakfast and lunch included)

The STOPfakes.gov Roadshow delivers critically important information about intellectual property to the audience that needs it most—startups, entrepreneurs, small and medium-sized businesses, independent creators, and inventors. The information is presented by experts who deal with intellectual property issues, including from multiple government agencies (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, U.S. Copyright Office, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Federal Bureau of Investigation, etc.). 

Participants will learn information vital to competing in an increasingly global environment:

  • 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 to help U.S. businesses with intellectual property issues

  • Live, in-person, step-by-step trademark recordation with U.S. Customs & Border Protection personnel (please bring a laptop)

  • One-on-one meetings available, with all speakers 

Thanks to the California Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz), the first 50, California-based, small businesses to register will receive complimentary admittance. Limited to one comp ticket per company.  Register here.

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Later Event: September 10
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