Akron, OH

• PTRC staff – Curtis Bower and Chris Schmidt
• For the 2nd annual Bookfest at Main Library, held a Q & A session on copyrights with a registered patent attorney. The event was very popular
• Working with our Small Business and Non-Profit Resource Center to spread the importance of IP in a business venture
• We teach 2 IP programs regularly at Main Library: “Introduction to Intellectual Property” and “Introduction to Patents and Patent Searching“
• One-on-one meetings with customers to talk about IP or teach one of our classes to someone who is unable to make a scheduled class
• Curtis continues to work on the Summit County Patent Index, a project to collect all the patents issued to Summit County, Ohio residents since 1790