Webinar: Intellectual Property Basics for Businesses

This webinar will a discussion about the what, why, where, and how of intellectual property. The focus will be on patents, copyright and trademarks. Can people earn recognition and / or financial benefit from what they invent or create?

The topics covered will be:

• What can be patented
• Types of patents
• How to check for a patent
• Copyrights
• How to copyright
• Trademarks and Trade secrets

While in industry, Dr. Hoffman held positions ranging from research and development engineer, group manager, project manager to general manager. In aerospace, he worked on the space shuttle and the Titan rocket. He holds a patent for a Digital Scan Converter Employing an Accelerated Scan. He is the author of project management and capstone project books and more than twenty academic and technical papers. He teaches business courses at Fairfield University.

This program is presented by SCORE. Register here.