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Abstract: As consultants many of us are confronted by intellectual property matters on a regular basis; however, our perspective and approach might be different from those that we might have adopted in the past as an employee.
For example, employees involved in the invention of a patentable product or process typically assign any inventions to their employers as a result of an employment agreement offering the employee no remuneration beyond their regular salary. Such is not necessarily the case for consultants. Options exist, such as obtaining royalties, that might be discussed during the negotiation of a consulting agreement.
On the other hand, we may be faced with an area where interpretation of law may be less clear or where law is evolving. For example, consultants often access a wide variety of data from the internet. Such information is transmitted, interpreted and managed during the course of their work for clients. Dr. Reed will discuss copyright issues as they relate to use of this ever expanding wealth of information.
If these and other intellectual property matters affect your business or if you have questions in this area you should attend this meeting.
Dr. Reed provides patent prosecution and management of biotechnological inventions in medicine, agriculture and environmental sciences in her practice which focuses on university-based technology, research institutions and their licensees. She served for a year as Director of Intellectual Property for the University of Pennsylvania Center for Technology Transfer, where she developed expertise in domestic and foreign patent management and strategic planning, evaluation of new technology for patentability and commercial potential, and drafting of licensing and other commercialization agreement. In addition to her intellectual property law practice, she currently provides consulting services in management of university agricultural biotechnology.
Dr. Reed is trained in recombinant DNA technolgies, gene expression, cell biology and tissue culture, immunology, microbiology and plant pathology, DNA, RNA and protein purification and analysis. She holds a B.A. in Biologoy from Sonona State University (1979), and M.S. in Plant Pathology from the University of Nebraska (1982), and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Rutgers University (1988). She received her J.D. degree with honors from Rutgers University School of Law, Camden, in 1993. She is a member of the American Intellectural Property Law Association, the Philadelphia Intellectural Property Law Association, the Association of University technology Managers (AUTM) and the Licensing executives Society.
Meeting Location: The Cynwyd Club, Bala Cynwyd, PA. From City Line Ave (Route # 1) drive north on Conshohocken State Road (Route # 23) about 3 long
blocks. Continue north west on Trevor Lane instead of following Route #23 left.
At “Y” in road one block north on Trevor Lane turn left where clubhouse and
parking are on the left side of the road. Please park in lot if space is
available, otherwise park on Trevor Lane. If lost, call the club at
610-667-4524.
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