STOPfakes Roadshow - San Jose, CA
About
Venue (in-person only): USPTO Silicon Valley Regional Office, 26 S. Fourth Street, San Jose, CA
Cost: $0 or $50
- Register Early! The first 50, California-based, for-profit, small businesses to register will receive complimentary admittance limited to one comp ticket per company. Please check this link to verify small business size thresholds. Complimentary registrations are sponsored by GO-Biz. Register by Thursday, September 5 at 3pm Pacific.
- For small businesses after the first 50, as well as medium/large businesses, and companies outside CA, the registration fee is $50.
- All registrations include continental breakfast and lunch, as well as 1:1 meetings with speakers and additional agencies.
- Pre-registration is required for this in-person program. Walk-in registration is not available.
Overview: 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 (International Trade Administration, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, White House, U.S. Copyright Office, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and FBI).
Topics: 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)
- U.S. Department of Commerce - International Trade Administration
- FBI
- U.S. Customs & Border Protection
- U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
- U.S. Copyright Office
- EXIM Bank of the U.S.
- U.S. Department of Commerce - Bureau of Industry & Security
- State of California - GO-Biz International Programs
TENTATIVE AGENDA (Pacific time)
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9:00-9:15 am |
Registration and One-on-One sign-up |
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Sign-up sheet for one-on-ones available throughout the day |
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9:15-9:30 am |
Welcome and Opening Remarks Joanne Vliet - Director, U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration, Silicon Valley Office Michelle Sara King - Intellectual Property Team Lead & Senior International Trade Specialist, Office of Standards and Intellectual Property, U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration |
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9:30-10:15am |
Introduction to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Regional Office and a focus on Patents in the U.S. Stephen Koziol - Managing Regional Assistant Director, Silicon Valley Regional Office, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
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10:15-10:30am |
Break |
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10:30-11:00am |
Copyright and Your Business's Creative Works: How Copyright Impacts You George Thuronyi - Deputy Director, Office of Public Information and Education, United States Copyright Office |
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11:00am-11:45am |
USPTO Presentation: Focus on Trademarks Jason Lott - Managing Attorney for Trademarks Customer Outreach, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
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11:45am-12:45pm |
Lunch (provided) and One-on-Ones (10 min sessions) |
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12:45 - 1:00pm |
An Introduction to IP Coordination Summer Kostelnik, Policy Advisor, White House Office of the Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (IPEC) |
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1:00-1:45pm |
CBP’s IPR Border Enforcement Regime Suzanne Schultz, Attorney-Advisor, Intellectual Property Enforcement Branch, Regulations and Rulings, U.S. Customs and Border Protection |
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1:45-2:15pm |
FBI: Combating Economic Espionage and Trade Secret Theft
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2:15-2:30pm |
Sponsor: Soody Tronson, Attorney at Law, STLG Law Firm, Managing Counsel
(note: these remarks are independent of the U.S. government and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, or perspectives of the U.S. government) |
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2:30-2:55pm |
ITA: Supporting Exporters and the STOPfakes Program Michelle Sara King - Intellectual Property Team Lead & Senior International Trade Specialist, Office of Standards and Intellectual Property, U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration |
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2:55-3:00pm |
Closing Remarks Joanne Vliet - Director, U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration, Silicon Valley Office |
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3:00-4:00pm |
One-on-One Consultations (cont’d) |
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3:00-4:00pm |
OPTIONAL: Get On-Site Help with the Recordation Process (40 minutes) On-site assistance is made available by CBP staff to navigate the recordation application portal and process. Trademark recordation is $190 per international class of goods, and copyrights are $190 per application; it takes about 40 minutes. Sign-up sheet available during morning registration and throughout the day. |
For questions about this event, please email Joanne Vliet (joanne.vliet@trade.gov) or Cindy Ma (cindy.ma@trade.gov).
Thank you to our Supporting Organizations:
- California Lawyers Association
- California Lawyers Association - Intellectual Property Section
- City of Fremont (CA)
- City of San Jose (CA)
- Export-Import Bank of the U.S. (EXIM Bank)
- MANEX - a NIST MEP Center
- Monterey Bay DART
- Monterey Bay APEX Accelerator
- NavalX Tech Bridge
- Naval Postgraduate School, Joint Interagency Field Experimentation (JIFX)
- Norcal APEX Accelerator/PTAC
- Palo Alto Area Bar Association
- Santa Cruz Works
- SCORE Silicon Valley
- The Reshoring Institute
- The San Francisco Bay Area Intellectual Property American Inn of Court
- U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Silicon Valley Innovation Program
- Women in International Trade - Northern California (WIT-NC)
Thank you to our Sponsors:
