STOPfakes Roadshow: Intellectual Property Rights Seminar

Join experts from the International Trade Administration, FBI, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, White House Office of the Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, and U.S. Copyright Office for a one-day program in San Jose, CA, to ensure your company has the tools and knowledge required to protect your intellectual property at home and abroad.  MFG:SJ is pleased to support this important program.

The STOPfakes Roadshow delivers critically important information about intellectual property to the audience that needs it most—start-ups, entrepreneurs, small and medium-sized businesses, independent creators, and inventors. Information is presented by experts from multiple government agencies that specialize in intellectual property issues.

Thanks to the California Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz), the first 50, California-based, for-profit, small businesses to register will receive complimentary admittance. Limited to one comp ticket per company. ç

Program includes:

• How to identify and protect your company’s various IP assets (trademarks, patents, copyrights, and trade secrets)
• Mechanisms for obtaining IP protection overseas and strategies for determining where to seek protection
• How to combat counterfeits on international e-commerce sites
• U.S. government resources available at the International Trade Administration, Copyright Office, CBP, USPTO, FBI and to help U.S. businesses with intellectual property issues.
• One-on-one meetings with the speakers
• Optional opportunity to apply for copyright and trademark recordation on-site, guided by CBP staff