Protecting intellectual property - The Rider Newspaper

Taylor Elfervig, a patent examiner with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, conducts one of the Intellectual Property workshops last Thursday in Brownsville. “We are hosting a group of intellectual property attorneys that are coming down to provide free workshops to the community about trademarks,” said Linda Ufland, manager of the Economic Development and Commercialization Center.

Attendees listen during a Rio Grande Valley Intellectual Property workshop conducted last Thursday in the UTRGV Office of Economic Development and Commercialization Center. The workshops aimed to inform the community about measures to protect their logos, business names, inventions or technology and products. The commercialization center provides an array of services to the community for starting, growing and better managing a business. Special programs are offered for students, faculty and staff for business incubation and acceleration.