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Inventor's Notebooks Workshop

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

12:00 to 1:00 PM -- Higgins House (behind Campus Center), Free pizza, veggie stix, and beverages

A complete and witnessed Inventor's Notebook is key to creating a legal record of your invention, making it easier for you to apply for a patent and swear behind prior art references, and for supporting your "first to invent" claim in an inventorship dispute or an interference proceeding. Learn the fundamentals of a proper inventor’s notebook in this useful one-hour workshop.

About the speaker:

Practice Concentration

Kathryn V. Chelini joined Mirick O'Connell in July 2006 as an Associate in the Firm's Intellectual Property Group. Ms. Chelini focuses her practice in the areas of patent litigation and patent prosecution matters with an emphasis on technology. She has extensive experience in engineering, software development, and program management in technology industries. Prior to joining the Firm, Ms. Chelini was an Associate at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., in Boston. She is licensed to practice law in Massachusetts and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Professional And Community Activities

Ms. Chelini is a member of the Boston Patent Law Association, Massachusetts Bar Association and American Bar Association.

Publications/Presentations

Are You Risking Your Right to Patent Your Software?: A Case Comment on Pfaff v. Wells Electronics, Inc. 37 New England Law Review 271 (2002-2003)

Co-authored, Amicus Curiae Brief: United States v. Diaz, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, No. 02-0513 (September 17, 2003)

Professional Experience

Mirick O'Connell, Westborough, Massachusetts
Associate (July 2006-present)

Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., Boston Massachusetts
Associate (October 2003-July 2006)

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Law Intern, Justice Robert J. Cordy (Summer 2002)

Education

Ms. Chelini received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Clarkson College of Technology in Potsdam, New York, in 1980, a Master of Science degree in Management from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1995, a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from Boston University in 1998, a certificate in Intellectual Property Law from Tulane Center for European Union Law and Intellectual Property in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 2001 and her J.D., magna cum laude, from New England School of Law in 2003.

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