# Presentation: 043931

## ASAP 

*LORI-ANNE NEIGER*
*CHIEF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY COUNSEL*
*September 13, 2007*

## Intro

## Outline

*Or What this means to you**	**?*
- Brief overview of types of IP
- Know your role/responsibilities/rights regarding:
- Inventions
- Publications
- Software
- Office Intellectual Property organization
- Brookhaven data
- Patent Agents

## Outline

*Or What this means to you**	**?*
- Brief overview of types of IP
- Know your role/responsibilities/rights regarding:
- Inventions
- Publications
- Software
- Office Intellectual Property organization
- Brookhaven data
- Patent Agents

## TYPES OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

- Trademarks
- Copyrights
- Trade secrets
- Patents
*Commercial products are more valuable if they are protected by Copyrights, Trademarks, Trade secrets or Patents*

## TRADEMARKS

- Trademarks are generally distinctive symbols, pictures, or words that sellers affix to distinguish and identify the origin of their products.

- Customers

## Word Mark          IPOD NANO  
Serial Number  78778627
Goods and Services
Portable and handheld digital electronic devices for recording, organizing, transmitting, manipulating, and reviewing text, data, and audio files; computer software for use in organizing, transmitting, manipulating, and reviewing text, data, and audio files on portable and handheld digital electronic devices. 
Owner         Apple Computer, Inc. 

**Serial Number  **78778627
**Goods and Services**
- Portable and handheld digital electronic devices for recording, organizing, transmitting, manipulating, and reviewing text, data, and audio files; computer software for use in organizing, transmitting, manipulating, and reviewing text, data, and audio files on portable and handheld digital electronic devices.
**Owner **        Apple Computer, Inc.

## COPYRIGHTS

- Protects an original work of authorship
- Literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works such as poetry, novels, movies, songs, computer software, and architecture
- Do not protect
- Facts, ideas, systems, or methods of operation, although it may protect the way these things are expressed

## Registration Number:  PA-1-287-831 
Title:  Don't phunk with my heart. 
Note:  Performed by The Blackeyed Peas.  
In:  Monkey business. mA&M Records B0004341-02, c2005. 
Compact disc Claimant:  Songs of Universal, Inc., Printz Polar Publishing, Careers-BMG  Music, Inc., Zomba Entertainment, Inc., Saregama India, Ltd., Will.I.Am Music, Inc., Cherry River Music Company, El Cubano Music, EMI Blackwood Music, Inc.Created:  2005  
Title on © Application:  I wonder if I take you home = Ae naujawan sab kuchh yahan = Yeh  mera dil yaar ka diwana.
Author on © Application:  music & words: Priese Prince Lamont Board (p.k.a. Printz Board),  William Adams (p.k.a. Will.I.am), Stacy Ferguson (p.k.a. Fergie)

- Title:  Don't phunk with my heart.
- Note:  Performed by The Blackeyed Peas.
- In:  Monkey business. mA&M Records B0004341-02, c2005.
- Compact disc Claimant:  Songs of Universal, Inc., Printz Polar Publishing, Careers-BMG  Music, Inc., Zomba Entertainment, Inc., Saregama India, Ltd., Will.I.Am Music, Inc., Cherry River Music Company, El Cubano Music, EMI Blackwood Music, Inc.Created:  2005
- Title on © Application:  I wonder if I take you home = Ae naujawan sab kuchh yahan = Yeh  mera dil yaar ka diwana.
- Author on © Application:  music & words: Priese Prince Lamont Board (p.k.a. Printz Board),  William Adams (p.k.a. Will.I.am), Stacy Ferguson (p.k.a. Fergie)

## Trade secrets

## WHY PATENT?

- U.S. Constitution Article 1, Section 8,Clause 8
- states:
- To promote the Progress of Science and
- useful Arts, by securing for limited Times
- to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right
- to their respective Writings and Discoveries

## PATENTS

- Patents provide exclusive rights to prevent others from making, using, importing, selling and offering for sale the invention for up to 20 years** **

## Slide 13

## Criteria for Obtaining a U.S. Patent

_**Useful**_
- Low standard
_**New**_
- Also known as “novelty”
- Publications, disclosures, public uses, on sale, etc.
_**Not obvious**_
- Not an obvious combination of known products or methods
- Standard of “one of ordinary skill in the art”

## Outline

*Or What this means to you**	**?*
- Brief overview of types of IP
- Know your role/responsibilities/rights regarding:
- Inventions
- Publications
- Software
- Office Intellectual Property organization
- Brookhaven data
- Patent Agents

## Roles/Responsibilities/Rights	

- Who is your employer?
- What is your employment agreement state?
- Inventions, Publications, Software
- What is your University Policy?
- What happens when I change employers?
- What are the benefits for having a good idea?

## EMPLOYEE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AGREEMENT

-  I will promptly disclose, report and communicate ......full information concerning every invention or discovery arising from or related to work
- If and when I conceive or first reduce to practice any discoveries or inventions in the course of my employment by BSA, DOE shall, subject to BSA’s right to elect to take title thereto, have the sole power to determine whether or not BSA shall require me to participate in the filing of a patent application

##  I further agree that, ..... BSA, as my employer is the owner of the copyright in such materials. 

 agree not to mark, register, establish or assert any claim to statutory copyright in any data or computer software 

-  agree not to mark, register, establish or assert any claim to statutory copyright in any data or computer software

## Outline

*Or What this means to you**	**?*
- Brief overview of types of IP
- Know your role/responsibilities/rights regarding:
- Inventions
- Publications
- Software
- Office Intellectual Property organization
- Brookhaven data
- Patent Agents

## ORG CHART

## Staff

**Staff**

*Christine Brakel*

*Lori-Anne Neiger*

*Maria Pacella*

*Cyrena Condemi*

***Dorene Price***

***Kimberley Elcess***

*Mike Furey*

*Alison Schwarz*

*Ginny Coccorese*

## Outline

*Or What this means to you**	**?*
- Brief overview of types of IP
- Know your role/responsibilities/rights regarding:
- Inventions
- Publications
- Software
- Office Intellectual Property organization
- Brookhaven data
- Patent Agents

## BROOKHAVEN FAST FACTS

- # of PATENTS  200+
- # of COPYRIGHTS  10
- # of LICENSES  455
- Yearly Royalties 6 Million +

## National Lab  IP Comparison W/ DOE Labs FY06

**National Lab  IP Comparison W/ DOE Labs FY06**

**TOP PATENTING U.S. UNIVERSITIES CY2005**
**1. U. California 390**
**2. MIT 136**
**3. CalTech 101**
**4. Stanford 90**
**4. U. Texas 90**
**5. U. Wisconsin 77**
**6. Johns Hopkins 71**
**7. U. Michigan 71**
**8. U. Florida 64**
**9. Columbia 57**
**10. Georgia Tech 43**

## National Laboratory Total Licensing Income FY06

**National Laboratory Total Licensing Income FY06**

## New Products and Companies

**First BNL Copyrighted Educational Materials**

- New IPO

**manufacturing scale-up of BSA flat panel technology**

**medical synchrotron for C and proton therapies**

## Outline

*Or What this means to you**	**?*
- Brief overview of types of IP
- Know your role/responsibilities/rights regarding:
- Inventions
- Publications
- Software
- Office Intellectual Property organization
- Brookhaven data
- Patent Agents

## WHERE CAN PATENT AGENTS/ATTORNEYS WORK?

*Law Firms*

*Patent Office*

*Government*

*Companies*

*Courts*

*Self Employed*

## Contact information:

- Lori-Anne Neiger
- 	x3035
- 	bldg. 185
- http://www.bnl.gov/techxfer/