Texas A&M School of Law Business Speaker Series

Please join us for the Texas A&M University School of Law San Antonio ​Business ​Speaker Series ​during​ your lunch hour. 

Date:  Tuesday, ​July 9, 2019
Time:  12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Location: Radius Center, 411 E. Martin St., San Antonio TX 78205 (map)

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Continuing Legal Education credit (0.5 hours) will be offered for Texas attorneys who attend the event.

Tuesday, July 9, 2019

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OWNERSHIP:  WHEN BUSINESSES DON'T OWN WHAT THEY THINK THEY OWN

Presented by Adjunct Professor Ed Marvin,
Texas A&M University School of Law

Businesses often have more potential intellectual property rights in self-creations than they realize or appreciate. For example, logos and websites associated with a business, or works of authorship or inventions created by a business’s employees, all involve intellectual property that a business may own (or may think it owns). However, just because a business’s employee creates something, or just because a business paid a third party to create something, does not necessarily mean that business automatically owns the intellectual property. Rather, certain steps should be taken to identify the intellectual property associated with the item and properly acquire its ownership. This presentation by Ed Marvin, Texas A&M Adjunct Professor of Law, board member of the Texas Aggie Bar Association, and intellectual property law practitioner at Gunn, Lee & Cave, P.C., will uncover the different types of intellectual property that may already be within your business, the importance of properly documenting intellectual property ownership, common pitfalls that businesses make in their assumptions about intellectual property ownership, and steps businesses can take to ensure they own the IP that they think they own.