The University of Findlay will present “Patently Good Ideas in Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property” 6-8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 21, at 300 Davis Street, Room 102.

Community members are welcome to attend.            

The University recognizes that the economy is becoming increasingly knowledge-based. Intellectual property, such as patents, plays a vital role in economic growth and development. Knowledge of intellectual property, and specifically patents and the patenting process, is important to entrepreneurs, small businesses and large companies. 

The program will provide an overview of entrepreneurship and start-up business basics as well as a discussion on intellectual property, which will explain the differences between patents, trademarks, copyright and trade secrets.

Featured speakers are Jeremiah Young, M.B.A., J.D., assistant professor in the College of Business at UF, and Jacob M. Ward, Esq., patent attorney with Fraser Clemens Martin and Miller LLC in Perrysburg.            

Srikumaran Melethil, Ph.D., J.D., patent attorney and chair of the department of pharmaceutical sciences in the College of Pharmacy at UF, will moderate the discussion.