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Product Leaders Speaker Series Event – June 16, 2011 

Attend the inaugural speaker series event of the Greater DC/MD/VA Chapter of PDMA. The first speaker will be the accomplished intellectual property attorney, Rel S. Ambrozy, from McKenna Long & Alridge LLP. We thought a great topic to kick-off our speaker series would include a discussion on protecting your product innovations. 

Protect Your Product Innovations Before Someone Else Does:  A Primer on Intellectual Property Rights and How to Protect Your Ideas throughout the Product Development Lifecycle 

Rel S. Ambrozy, Attorney/Partner, McKenna Long & Alridge LLP 

Thursday, June 16, 2011

6:00pm to 8:00pm

Dunn Loring Courtyard Marriott
2722 Gallows Rd.
Vienna, VA 22180

(Just a few miles from Tyson's Corner or a 5 minute walk from Dunn Loring Metro Station) 

Cost: THIS INAUGURAL EVENT IS FREE! (includes food and refreshments!) Attendance limited to 40 guests so register today! 

In today’s social media age, who doesn’t know about the successes of Facebook as well as its trials and tribulations around who really created the Facebook idea. Rel S. Ambrozy will be bringing a perspective to a topic that has received a lot of attention in recent years and months:  Protecting Your Product Innovations. So join us for some food and refreshments and for a primer on how to protect your creativity and Intellectual Property (IP) rights. This is going to be a great event.

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Protect your product innovations from the day you first conceive the idea through the day you launch your product and beyond. At some point during the product development lifecycle, product managers, entrepreneurs, inventors and companies alike have to share and discuss their ideas with people who can help vet, refine and commercialize them. Disclosure presents a dilemma or an opportunity for the innovator – depending on how you look at it.

In the evolving digital world of today, basic understanding of your Intellectual Property rights is a must. It can help you protect your proprietary knowledge and investments, understand your competitive advantage, and realize your business goals. If you don’t properly protect your IP, someone else might reap the rewards for themselves. 

Rel S. Ambrozy, a Partner at McKenna Long & Alridge LLP, is an accomplished attorney with specializations in the area of intellectual property, government contracts, and international law. Mr. Ambrozy will address important topics and questions on the different types of intellectual property and the benefits of IP ownership.  During this presentation, you’ll learn about how to give your new products “freedom to operate” and how to avoid losing your IP. Mr. Ambrozy will also discuss upcoming patent law changes, best practices and cover a number of scenarios.   

Mr. Ambrozy possesses wide ranging experience in nearly all aspects of intellectual property. His practice focuses primarily on litigating and procuring patent rights, typically in the high-tech arena.  Mr. Ambrozy has litigated patents in numerous U.S. federal courts, as well as assisted in the prosecution of several co-pending foreign litigations.  His close cooperation with counsel in Europe, Taiwan, Canada, Japan and Korea is essential to not only ensuring consistency between litigations occurring  simultaneously in the United States and abroad, but to ensure compliance with all applicable foreign practice requirements. 

Mr. Ambrozy has also counseled clients regarding not only the patenting of their inventions, but the management and licensing of their resulting patent portfolio.  Such counseling includes performing due diligence investigations in preparation for asset purchases, providing freedom to operate opinions, and crafting licensing strategies. Mr. Ambrozy has significant experience counseling clients on issues of ownership and licensing of intellectual property rights under federal government contracts and subcontracts.   

Mr. Ambrozy’s practice also includes counseling clients on not only the maintenance of their trade secrets, but how best to enforce those trade secrets when misappropriated. Prior to joining McKenna Long & Aldridge, Mr. Ambrozy served as in-house counsel for a high-tech start-up corporation.  That experience provides Mr. Ambrozy with insight into how best to merge a client’s concerns with protecting the client’s interests.  

Given Mr. Ambrozy's broad educational background and work experience, he is proficient in technical areas ranging from the electrical arts including cellular telephony, liquid crystal display operation and manufacture, internet applications and medical devices to the biological arts including biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and bioinformatics. While receiving his Master's degree, Mr. Ambrozy researched the software and hardware components for various heart pacemaker systems. For his Master's Thesis, he developed a rule-based expert system that automated the analysis of functioning pacemakers. 

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Wanted to invite you to a networking mixer and Chapter Planning meeting on March 5, to be held at Noon at Irelands Four Courts restaurant (convenient to metro and parking). 

William Anderson, a recent transplant from Michigan, and recent member, has arranged an excellent event, including a nice fixed priced menu ($14.95). Come and connect, and help share your ideas for making the PDMA DC chapter a venue to network with other product development professionals, learn best practices, and to reach out to area businesses and universities.

A part of the time will be dedicated to hearing ideas for:
- Chapter Events
- Identifying speakers, practitioners to lead workshops
- Volunteers

We need:
- Treasurer
- Events Director
- Membership Director

- Corporate Outreach Director (Sponsorship)

- Academic Outreach Director 

- Communications Director (Website, etc).

Thanks to William for pulling this together, and we hope to see you on the 5th. If you have interest in volunteering this year, please let me know your interests, and availability.

Thanks!
- Mark

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Past Events

Event - March 5, 2011

Chapter Luncheon and Planning Event - March 5, 2011 12:00 Noon - See you There

 

 At 

Irelands-Four-Courts irelandsfourcourts.com, 2051 Wilson Blvd, Arlington, Va

 

 PDMA DC Chapter - Networking & Planning Event March 05, 2011, 12:00 Noon

 

Wanted to invite you to a networking mixer and Chapter Planning meeting on March 5, to be held at Noon at Irelands Four Courts restaurant (convenient to metro and parking). 

William Anderson, a recent transplant from Michigan, and recent member, has arranged an excellent event, including a nice fixed priced menu ($14.95). Come and connect, and help share your ideas for making the PDMA DC chapter a venue to network with other product development professionals, learn best practices, and to reach out to area businesses and universities.

A part of the time will be dedicated to hearing ideas for:
- Chapter Events
- Identifying speakers, practitioners to lead workshops
- Volunteers

We need:
- Treasurer
- Events Director
- Membership Director

- Corporate Outreach Director (Sponsorship)

- Academic Outreach Director 

- Communications Director (Website, etc).

Thanks to William for pulling this together, and we hope to see you on the 5th. If you have interest in volunteering this year, please let me know your interests, and availability.

Thanks!
- Mark

Fees
No Chapter Fee - Just come connect.  There is a fixed priced $14.95 lunch, including soda, being offered.  We have the registration link just to get an idea of how many to expect.  

Date

Saturday, March 5, 2011 12:00 to 2:00 PM EST

Location:

Irelands-Four-Courts irelandsfourcourts.com

The most authentic home of Irish Hospitality in Arlington. 

2051 Wilson Blvd

Arlington, Va

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