Luis Figarella, MS, PE, Patent Agent and Raymond L. Barrett, Jr., PhD, PE

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Presents a SunCam continuing education series on the topic of:

Intelectual Property and Patents

Contact author at:
luis@mxpatent.com, raybarrett@comcast.net

Luis Figarella is a USPTO registered Patent Agent (Reg. No. 58,300) and a Professional Engineer. He has extensive experience in the Auto-ID, Medical Devices and Logistics fields. He is a co-inventor of fourteen US patents, and participated in the development of the MaxiCode and Data Matrix symbologies and scanners with both United Parcel Service and RVSI/Int'l Data Matrix. Both symbologies are daily used in well over 15 million new individual items.

Mr. Figarella owns the Matrix Patent Agency in Nashua, NH, with a practice helping inventors in New England, other US states (incl. NM, FL, CO, MT, GA...), as well as the Caribbean (PR, Colombia and the Dominican Republic), Ecuador, China, Russia and France in the preparation, filing and prosecution of US patents and PCT applications, having already obtained the issuance/allowance of over 35 US Patents.

Luis was the co-chair of the HIBCC Auto-ID ANSI-accredited committee from 2004 to 2012. He is a co-founder of ClicknPrint Tickets (www.clicknprint.com), a provider of Print-at-Home ticketing based in Houston, TX, and of StereoImaging Corp., a developer of stereoscopic-video (3D) surgical microscopes (www.stereoimaging.com).

Mr. Figarella has an MS in Systems Engineering, from Boston University and a BS Electrical Engineering, from the University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez .

Dr. Barrett is a Professional Engineer, Educator, and visionary IEEE Author/Speaker with wide ranging expertise in many disciplines of electronics: resulted in 35 patents. Experience in large and small corporate environs but focused on development of new innovative products, processes, methodologies, practices and environments for engineering creativity.

Specialtiesinclude architecture and design at all levels of analog, digital, mixed-signal, Power Management, and RF including integrated circuit level through large complex systems.

Dr. Barrett is alsocoauthor of: "Low-Rate Wireless Personal Area Networks" Click the image to preview or buy this book on Amazon.com.

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186-Intellectual Property and Patents for the Professional Engineer

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4 $90.00

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Course Objectives: This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering.

Course Description:

This course is organized with an introduction to the general practice of the engineering arts with emphasis on the facets that are specific to the profession of the Registered Professional Engineer. A similar emphasis on and distinctions of the general forms of intellectual property is introduced with particular emphasis on the United States Patent Office and issued patents; such as are likely to be associated with the practice of the Professional Engineer. Some practical considerations are developed as apply to the practice of Professional Engineering.

This course has been produced by two practicing Professional Engineers. One author, Dr. Raymond L. Barrett, Jr., PhD, PE has many years of engineering experience and is an author of books, articles, and courses, as well as an inventor with 36 issued US patents as a named inventor. Similarly, Luis Figarella, PE also has over 20 years of experience as a practicing engineer and Patent Agent and is an author of books, articles, and courses, as well as an inventor with 14 issued US patents as a named inventor, and over 35 issued/allowed US Patents for his clients.

Due to the nature of the course, the materials presented in this course were extensively obtained from referenced public sources with links to those sources conveniently provided. On completion of the course the terms should be clear, many of the issues as well as an introduction to the processes and procedures needed to identify intellectual property issues and protect the rights of the owner of the identified intellectual property should be clearer. The course is presented as an overview and is not a substitute for competent legal advice in any particular cases.