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Winter 2010: O'Mara Teaches IP Courses to Continuing Education Students
Pam O'Mara is scheduled to teach the following courses:
O'Mara completed the Medication Certificate Program presented by the Elledge
Group, adding to the IP-focused mediation certificate earned at the Pierce Law Center.
O'Mara attended the Patent Information Users Group (PIUG) Annual Meeting 2009 in
San Antonio, TX.
O'Mara Invited to Contribute to 2008 Colorado Nanotechnology Directory
Pam O'Mara contributed From Lab to Market, From R&D to P&L Transitioning
Ideas and People.
Pam Roth O'Mara Invited to Speak at 2007 Technology Transfer Society Meeting
at UC-Riverside Event sponsored by the Kauffman Foundation and the UC-Riverside
Anderson Graduate School of Management. palmdesert.ucr.edu
O'Mara Covers Colorado Nano Event for Small Times magazine
By Small Times contributing editor Pam J. Roth O'Mara
August 8, 2007 -- The Colorado Nanotechnology Alliance (CNA) is "taking a proactive role in
educating our companies, universities, labs, and citizens on EH&S [environmental health
and safety] questions, concerns, issues, and potential regulatory initiatives by
nanoparticles in the workplace and environment," says CNA executive director Debbie
Woodward. Woodward's point is illustrated by the CNA's sponsorship of an event,
Nanotechnology Monitoring in Occupational Environments and EHS Updates, held July 31
in Denver. The event featured presentations by Greg Olson, health and safety instruments
product manager for TSI USA Inc.; Mark Savit and Carolyn McIntosh, partners at Patton
Boggs LLC; and Don Ewert, who serves both as EH&S manager for NanoProducts Corp. and
as AIHA (American Industrial Hygeine Association) Nanotechnology Working Group
secretary. For the complete story: Small Times
O'Mara Quoted in Processor Magazine: Protecting Intellectual Property & Assets
Process Steps For Setting IP Strategy...
Pam Roth, founder and president of consultancy IP-InSource (www.ipinsource.com),
cautions that there isn’t a magic bullet that can obviate the need for a certain level of
manual, hands-on work when trying to identify the important information assets in a
company. The first step she advises for companies embarking on an IP protection program
is an audit of everything that is considered an intellectual asset. This audit needs to be a
broad-based activity involving departments beyond IT. In fact, she suggests forming a task
force consisting of all IP stakeholders such as human resources, legal, and line of business
departments. Such a “bottom’s up” task force not only has visibility to the panoply of a
firm’s information assets, many of which are invisible to IT,
but can be used to gain important, executive-level sponsorship for a comprehensive IP
protection program.
Roth adds that once a firm has identified its information assets, it can “then look at the list
to see what can be protected and how”—the “how” typically involves legal staff to
determine if there are specific items of IP that can be protected by trademark, copyright,
patent, or trade secret. Once a company has identified and developed protection
mechanisms for its IP, she then advises defining formal policies so that employees know
how to handle sensitive information and what actions to take when issues arise. She
stresses that in order to keep up with changing circumstances, IP reviews should be
incorporated into a company’s standard business processes, much like regular financial or
product reviews. ESG’s report echoes this advice: “If an organization does not have any
formal processes for identifying and classifying information as intellectual property,
there is virtually no chance that said organization can be considered (even by its own
employees) as ‘excellent’ at conducting the tasks required to identify, locate, classify, and
secure intellectual property.”
For the complete story: Processor
Pam O'Mara is scheduled to teach the following courses:
 | Intellectual Property Basics for Inventors, Innovators, and Designers | |
| Intellectual Property Due Diligence for Pro-Active Business Managers, Estate | |
| Planners, and Investors |
O'Mara completed the Medication Certificate Program presented by the Elledge
Group, adding to the IP-focused mediation certificate earned at the Pierce Law Center.
O'Mara attended the Patent Information Users Group (PIUG) Annual Meeting 2009 in
San Antonio, TX.
O'Mara Invited to Contribute to 2008 Colorado Nanotechnology Directory
Pam O'Mara contributed From Lab to Market, From R&D to P&L Transitioning
Ideas and People.
Pam Roth O'Mara Invited to Speak at 2007 Technology Transfer Society Meeting
at UC-Riverside Event sponsored by the Kauffman Foundation and the UC-Riverside
Anderson Graduate School of Management. palmdesert.ucr.edu
O'Mara Covers Colorado Nano Event for Small Times magazine
By Small Times contributing editor Pam J. Roth O'Mara
August 8, 2007 -- The Colorado Nanotechnology Alliance (CNA) is "taking a proactive role in
educating our companies, universities, labs, and citizens on EH&S [environmental health
and safety] questions, concerns, issues, and potential regulatory initiatives by
nanoparticles in the workplace and environment," says CNA executive director Debbie
Woodward. Woodward's point is illustrated by the CNA's sponsorship of an event,
Nanotechnology Monitoring in Occupational Environments and EHS Updates, held July 31
in Denver. The event featured presentations by Greg Olson, health and safety instruments
product manager for TSI USA Inc.; Mark Savit and Carolyn McIntosh, partners at Patton
Boggs LLC; and Don Ewert, who serves both as EH&S manager for NanoProducts Corp. and
as AIHA (American Industrial Hygeine Association) Nanotechnology Working Group
secretary. For the complete story: Small Times
O'Mara Quoted in Processor Magazine: Protecting Intellectual Property & Assets
Process Steps For Setting IP Strategy...
Pam Roth, founder and president of consultancy IP-InSource (www.ipinsource.com),
cautions that there isn’t a magic bullet that can obviate the need for a certain level of
manual, hands-on work when trying to identify the important information assets in a
company. The first step she advises for companies embarking on an IP protection program
is an audit of everything that is considered an intellectual asset. This audit needs to be a
broad-based activity involving departments beyond IT. In fact, she suggests forming a task
force consisting of all IP stakeholders such as human resources, legal, and line of business
departments. Such a “bottom’s up” task force not only has visibility to the panoply of a
firm’s information assets, many of which are invisible to IT,
but can be used to gain important, executive-level sponsorship for a comprehensive IP
protection program.
Roth adds that once a firm has identified its information assets, it can “then look at the list
to see what can be protected and how”—the “how” typically involves legal staff to
determine if there are specific items of IP that can be protected by trademark, copyright,
patent, or trade secret. Once a company has identified and developed protection
mechanisms for its IP, she then advises defining formal policies so that employees know
how to handle sensitive information and what actions to take when issues arise. She
stresses that in order to keep up with changing circumstances, IP reviews should be
incorporated into a company’s standard business processes, much like regular financial or
product reviews. ESG’s report echoes this advice: “If an organization does not have any
formal processes for identifying and classifying information as intellectual property,
there is virtually no chance that said organization can be considered (even by its own
employees) as ‘excellent’ at conducting the tasks required to identify, locate, classify, and
secure intellectual property.”
For the complete story: Processor
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IP-InSource LLC
IAM@ipinsource.com
IP-InSource LLC
IAM@ipinsource.com
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