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<div style=""><b style="font-size: 14pt;">Intellectual Property Protection - Why and How?</b></div>
<div style=""><b style="font-size: 12pt;">TiE Panel: IP & Protecting Your Competitive Advantage</b></div>
<div style=""><b>Thursday April 17th, 6:00pm-8:30pm </b></div>
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<div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">How to best protect the competitive advantage of your business? </span></div>
<div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">If your leg-up on the competition depends on your specific invention or innovation, should you patent? Claim copyright? Trademark? How, if at all, is that different for different types of products, for instance software versus hardware products? </span></div>
<div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">And why should you care?</span></div>
<div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
<div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;" align="left"><span><strong>Here are some people you can ask. </strong></span></div>
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<div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 14.545454025268555px;"><b> Leigh Gill<b> is an attorney for Imfmix Law Group, as well as a TiE Charter Member. </b></b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 14.545454025268555px;">His legal expertise and specific interests include intellectual property protection, and he brings real world experience from having worked as an account manager, business analyst, project manager and consultant in technology businesses.</span></div>
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<div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 14.545454025268555px;"><b> Nat Parker</b> is CEO and co-founder of GlobeSherpa, a software company operating in the field of mobile applications for payment and fare collection, who are currently scoring successes with software products for public transit systems (among which Portland's own <strong>TriMet</strong> and <strong>Streetcar</strong> systems). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.545454025268555px;"><b>Craig Evans</b> is CEO and Founder of ESS (Energy Storage Solutions), a company focusing on products for clean and reliable energy. The energy sector is full of opportunity and competition for the next great solution to our planet's growing energy needs. </span><span style="font-size: 14.545454025268555px;">With a Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Craig has authored over 15 patents and patent applications.</span>
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<div style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 14.545454025268555px;"><b> Jim Huston </b>is Managing Director of Portland Seed Fund and a TiE Charter Member. As a past Director of Intellectual Property at Intel Capital, as well as having taught at Lewis and Clark Law School and University of Portland Center for Entrepreneurship on areas where law, business and technology intersect, he has great experience -and some opinions- on these topics. </span></div>
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<div style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: left;" align="left">We'll be discussing intellectual property, patents, legal issues and more, at our </div>
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<strong>TiE Panel Discussion: IP & Protecting Your Competitive Advantage </strong>on<strong> Thursday, April 17th, 6:00pm-8:30pm</strong>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Our Moderator for the evening's discussion, <b>Brent Bullock</b>, is a partner at Perkins Coie LLP, and widely recognized as a leader in corporate and securities law. </span>
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<div style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: left;" align="left"><strong>Networking mixer</strong></div>
<div style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: left;" align="left">Come enjoy a networking mixer prior to the discussion and speaker presentation, courtesy of event sponsors Perkins Coie LLP.</div>
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<div style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: left;" align="left"><strong>Introduction to ONAMI</strong></div>
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As if the above panel discussion wasn't enough, we will be featuring a speaker from ONAMI, Oregon's first Signature Research Center, to introduce the organization and its activities. You may for instance not know that, among other things, ONAMI provides gap funding to entrepreneurs, to accelerate research and commercialization of materials science and related device- and system technologies.</div>
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<div style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: left;" align="left">This promises to be an evening jam-packed with useful information, insights and networking. </div>
<div style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: left;" align="left"><strong>Hurry and save your seat!</strong></div>
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<a style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 14pt; color: #ffc5c3; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://oregon.tie.org/event/40/tie-panel-discussion-ip-and-patents" shape="rect" target="_blank">Register Now</a> </div>
<div style="font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 30px;">April 17th, 6:00pm-8:30pm</div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">TiE Members: $15; p</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ublic: $25</span>
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<div style=""><b style="font-size: 14pt;">Intellectual Property Protection - Why and How?</b></div>
<div style=""><b style="font-size: 12pt;">TiE Panel: IP & Protecting Your Competitive Advantage</b></div>
<div style=""><b>Thursday April 17th, 6:00pm-8:30pm </b></div>
<div style=""><b><br></b></div>
<div style="">
<div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">How to best protect the competitive advantage of your business? </span></div>
<div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">If your leg-up on the competition depends on your specific invention or innovation, should you patent? Claim copyright? Trademark? How, if at all, is that different for different types of products, for instance software versus hardware products? </span></div>
<div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">And why should you care?</span></div>
<div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
<div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;" align="left"><span><strong>Here are some people you can ask. </strong></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;" align="left"><span><strong> </strong></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 14.545454025268555px;"><b> Leigh Gill</b> is an attorney for Immix Law Group, as well as a TiE Charter Member. </span></div>
<div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 14.545454025268555px;">His legal expertise and specific interests include intellectual property protection, and he brings real world experience from having worked as an account manager, business analyst, project manager and consultant in technology businesses.</span></div>
<div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 14.545454025268555px;"> </span></div>
<div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 14.545454025268555px;"><b> Nat Parker</b> is CEO and co-founder of GlobeSherpa, a software company operating in the field of mobile applications for payment and fare collection, who are currently scoring successes with software products for public transit systems (among which Portland's own <strong>TriMet</strong> and <strong>Streetcar</strong> systems). </span></div>
<div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 14.545454025268555px;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<span style="font-size: 14.545454025268555px;"><b>Craig Evans</b> is CEO and Founder of ESS (Energy Storage Solutions), a company focusing on products for clean and reliable energy. The energy sector is full of opportunity and competition for the next great solution to our planet's growing energy needs. </span><span style="font-size: 14.545454025268555px;">With a Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Craig has authored over 15 patents and patent applications.</span>
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<div style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 14.545454025268555px;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 14.545454025268555px;"><b> Jim Huston </b>is Managing Director of Portland Seed Fund and a TiE Charter Member. As a past Director of Intellectual Property at Intel Capital, as well as having taught at Lewis and Clark Law School and University of Portland Center for Entrepreneurship on areas where law, business and technology intersect, he has great experience -and some opinions- on these topics. </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;" align="left">
<span style="font-size: 14.545454025268555px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span>
</div>
<div style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: left;" align="left">We'll be discussing intellectual property, patents, legal issues and more, at our </div>
<div style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: left;" align="left">
<strong>TiE Panel Discussion: IP & Protecting Your Competitive Advantage </strong>on<strong> Thursday, April 17th, 6:00pm-8:30pm</strong>
</div>
<div style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: left;" align="left"><strong><br></strong></div>
<div style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: left;" align="left">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Our Moderator for the evening's discussion, <b>Brent Bullock</b>, is a partner at Perkins Coie LLP, and widely recognized as a leader in corporate and securities law. </span>
</div>
<div style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: left;" align="left"><br></div>
<div style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: left;" align="left"><strong>Networking mixer</strong></div>
<div style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: left;" align="left">Come enjoy a networking mixer prior to the discussion and speaker presentation, courtesy of event sponsors Perkins Coie LLP.</div>
<div style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: left;" align="left"><br></div>
<div style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: left;" align="left"><strong>Introduction to ONAMI</strong></div>
<div style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: left;" align="left">
As if the above panel discussion wasn't enough, we will be featuring a speaker from ONAMI, Oregon's first Signature Research Center, to introduce the organization and its activities. You may for instance not know that, among other things, ONAMI provides gap funding to entrepreneurs, to accelerate research and commercialization of materials science and related device- and system technologies.</div>
<div style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: left;" align="left"><br></div>
<div style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: left;" align="left"><br></div>
<div style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: left;" align="left">This promises to be an evening jam-packed with useful information, insights and networking. </div>
<div style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: left;" align="left"><strong>Hurry and save your seat!</strong></div>
</div>
<div style=""><br></div>
<div style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
<div style="">
<div style="font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 30px;">
<a style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 14pt; color: #ffc5c3; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://oregon.tie.org/event/40/tie-panel-discussion-ip-and-patents" shape="rect" target="_blank">Register Now</a> </div>
<div style="font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 30px;">April 17th, 6:00pm-8:30pm</div>
<div style="font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 30px;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">TiE Members: $15; p</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ublic: $25</span>
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