MARCH MEETING NOTICE

Intellectual Property in Today’s World
Presented by Ed Mischen

Ed will present some relevant intellectual property statistics (United States and global) along with some comments on interpretation. Ongoing proposed patent law changes and key court decisions will be reviewed, along with their corresponding impact on the invention process. To keep the presentation entertaining, he will inject some IP trivia, present several interesting IP examples, and possibly toss in a magic trick or two.

Ed is the founder and director for in-Source International Consulting Services. His firm specializes in management, manufacturing, quality, technical, and intellectual property consulting, including preparation of patent applications.

Ed received his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering at the University of Texas at El Paso and followed with graduate studies at Southern Methodist University.

His career spans multiple disciplines and technologies albeit mostly semiconductor related. Ed served as a design engineer and manager at Texas Instruments, a product manager at Medtronic, an operations manager at Motorola and at Philips Semiconductors. He is also a registered Patent Agent having worked on special assignments at Motorola.

In addition to his typical duties, Ed is preparing to become an author. His first book will be entitled “Lessons in Life, Business, and Golf from an Ordinary Guy™”.

We invite any of the IEEE Phoenix Section members and student members to attend our meetings, and we would like some inputs on program topics. Some of the topics we are considering for future meetings are:

• SCORE assistance for Small Business Startups

• The State of Arizona Mechanic 's Lien Laws and their application to consultants

• Engineering Registration requirements for offering Professional Engineering services

We will be happy to add any new topics, if they are of interest to the Phoenix Section Membership.

The Board Meeting portion is open to all members.  Proposed topics will be:

1. The ever present discussions about where to meet and what to eat.

2. Speakers and topics for new programs, starting with January, 2010. I would like to map out the whole year as we did last year.

3. We still need to expand our membership and increase our attendance at the meetings.

It would be very good if we could have all of the board members attend the meetings and provide input for the future programs and for expansion of membership.

This web site has been mostly removed and has migrated to the Yahoo group (ieeepacn)  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ieeepacn

Additionally, if you are on LinkedIn, please join the PACN group by going to http://www.linkedin.com/groupRegistration?gid=1878664

If you have any other issues, please contact one of the current officers or board members:

Revised: 2/8/10 msp