Patent and Trademark Resource Center Association

Committees 2017-2018

 

Standing Committees

Bylaws Committee
Charge: Review the PTRCA bylaws and recommend language for updates; coordinate with the PTRCA webmaster to ensure that the most recent bylaws are on the website.

Marian Armour-Gemman, Morgantown, WV (Chair)
Jared Hoppenfeld, College Station, TX
Suzanne Reinman, Stillwater, OK
Lisha Li, Atlanta, GA (ex officio)

Conferences Committee
Charge: Coordinate all arrangements necessary for the PTRCA portions of the Annual PTRC Training Seminar and PTRCA Conference. Continue reading

News from the Patent and Trademark Resource Center Program (PTRCP)

It is hard to envision a more exhilarating time to be involved in intellectual property.  Interest in Design Patents and Trade Dress has increased markedly in recent years, as anyone who searches the Web for “increasing importance of design patents” or “increasing importance of trade dress” can quickly verify.  Assisting your PTRC customers to locate relevant intellectual property information has never been as challenging or as important as it is today.  Continue reading

2016-2017 President’s Report

PTRCA President’s Report 2016-2017

 

If I can use one sentence to summarize this year, it will be: Change is the norm. First of all, we welcomed the new PTRCP Manager – Robert Berry in May 2016. Rob had previously served as a PTRC Representative at the Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT since 2009 and lately worked as a Fellow at the PTRCP office from September 2014 to May 2016. Continue reading

Committees 2016-2017

 

Standing Committees

Bylaws Committee
Charge: Review the PTRCA bylaws and recommend language for updates; coordinate with the PTRCA webmaster to ensure that the most recent bylaws are on the website.

Marian Armour-Gemman, Morgantown, WV (Chair)
Spruce Fraser, St. Louis, MO (Ex officio)
Jared Hoppenfeld, College Station, TX
Lisha Li, Atlanta, GA
 

Conferences Committee
Charge: Coordinate all arrangements necessary for the PTRCA portions of the Annual PTRC Training Seminar and PTRCA Conference. Continue reading

1. Description of Award

The Esther Crawford PTRCA Distinguished Service Award is presented annually to an individual PTRCA member or individual who demonstrates outstanding service to the Patent and Trademark Resource Center Association by active and effective participation on PTRCA committees and PTRCA activities that enhance the association educational experience.

2. Who is eligible?

All of the membership of the PTRCA and those individuals who contribute to the overall goals of the PTRC in the areas of association service and education. Continue reading

In addition to intellectual property awareness, this seminar helps those entrepreneurs who are considering developing a new invention, starting a new business, or existing businesses who wish to improve their business performance. This event is brought to you by the Kentucky Innovation Network at Northern Kentucky, NKU Grant County Center, NKU Intellectual Property Awareness Center (IPAC), NKU Small Business Development Center, Central Kentucky Inventors Council, Inventor’s Council of Cincinnati, and others.

This FREE event is scheduled Tuesday, Continue reading

At this year’s annual business meeting, Hal Mendelsohn and Russ Allen were recognized by the Executive Council for their service to PTRCA. Hal Mendelsohn, recently retired from the Orlando PTRC, was thanked for his dutiful service to the Association over the last nine years, and Russ Allen was given an honorary lifetime membership for his volunteer service to the Association. Mr. Allen is the the third member to be awarded an honorary lifetime membership, and the first non-PTRC representative to receive it. Continue reading

The Executive Council has issued its agenda for the 2016 Annual Business Meeting and the Bylaws Committee has finalized its ballot for this year’s proposed bylaws revisions. Both documents are posted here.

President (2015–2016):
Karen Kitchens, Cheyenne, WY
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Vice-President/President-Elect (Jan. 2016–March 2016):
Dave Zwicky, West Lafayette, IN
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Vice-President/President-Elect (April 2015–Dec. 2015):
Martin Wallace, Orono, ME
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Secretary (2015–2016):
John Schlipp, Highland Heights, KY
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Treasurer (2014–2016):
Jim Miller, College Park, MD
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Past President (2015–2016):
Spruce Fraser, Continue reading

Make new friends,
but keep the old.
One is silver,
the other is gold.

The first paragraph of the Girl Scout song that is above is a good indicator of the types of changes we have been going through the last year. Of the many changes, some were expected and some not. We traveled from coast to coast and to Hawaii and had the wonderful opportunity to work with a number of you while presenting programs at your libraries. Continue reading