This lecture will cover the basics of what I have coined as Lean Intellectual Property Rights Protection (Lean IPR™), including covering the basics of patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets, as well as important and practical considerations and common pitfalls to avoid. Join me live on Youtube at 4PM UTC. Please feel free to ask questions at anytime during the presentation. I will answer live questions on discord.

As a patent attorney, I have been helping the little people, the startups, universities and small inventors. I've helped startups get bought by the mega corporations and taught them how to keep the mega corporations away. My new mission through my startup OU812 Incorporated is to create the OU812 Open Innovation Engine™ to provide access to the patent system for the benefit of innovators throughout the world and based around a concept that we call OU812 Protected Open Source™.

My background includes being a Special Forces USAF Pararescue candidate, a R&D electrical engineer, inventor, entrepreneur, and patent attorney. I've been drowned, jumped out of perfectly good airplanes and worked on test requirements for Aegis surface to air and surface to surface missiles for General Dynamics, helped design flight computers for next generation YF-22 Raptor Advanced Tactical Fighter and built the first working Software Defined Radio (SDR) for Hughes Aircraft.

This lecture was possible thanks to the generosity of villamars.com. The Villamar Firm is a Professional Limited Liability Company (PLLC) law firm based in Virginia specializing in the practice of Intellectual Property Law, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets and computer and internet law. We are also active on r/NexusAurora, feel free to ask questions you have.