What Do You Need to Know About Patents to Protect Your Inventive Activities at KAUST

The Entrepreneurship Club invites you to an enlightening talk presented by Dr. Mardson Q. McQuay, Associate General Counsel and Senior IP Attorney at KAUST. This presentation will summarize the key elements you need to know about patents and protecting your inventive activities.

Intellectual Property (IP) protection is essential for innovation and creativity. Knowledge, a key economic asset, is fundamental to corporate strategy due to its role in driving economic growth and wealth in the Knowledge Economy.

Patents as the primary form of IP protection promote and utilize innovation for the benefit of society. IP constitutes 38.2% of the U.S. GDP and 30% of its total national employment. This presentation will summarize the key elements you need to know when dealing with your inventive activities.

Join us for this installment of our Entrepreneurial Series on November 21st, from 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, at Building 23 (Entrepreneurship Center), Level 2, in Classroom 2204 (behind the elevator).
 
Brief biography about our speaker:
Dr. Mardson Queiroz McQuay is Associate General Counsel and Senior IP Attorney at KAUST in Saudi Arabia.  Previously, Mardson was Senior Vice President and Chief IP Counsel for CGG, in Paris for six years, where he provided in-house counsel on all IP-related matters, supervising the work of outside IP litigation and prosecution counsels, preparing freedom-to-practice opinions, and drafting, negotiating and managing licenses, and third-party technology developments.  He also served as Senior Patent Counsel for General Electric for Oil & Gas, Aviation, and Energy in the US.  Before moving in-house, Mardson was an IP associate at Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier, & Neustadt, P.C., Alexandria, Virginia for four years.  Prior to his legal career, Dr. McQuay was a tenured Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah for sixteen years where he supervised more than 4.5 million dollars in fundamental and applied research in fundamental and applied combustion, heat transfer, fluid mechanics, laser-based instrumentation, and computational fluid mechanics.  Author or co-author of five invited papers; two textbooks on the fundamentals of combustion; and book chapters, reviews, archival journal publications, conference papers, and invited lectures around the world. During a sabbatical year in 1996/97, he was an invited Professor at Ecole Central Paris in France and an Elf Aquitaine Fellow on an EU-funded experimental project studying real-time, in-situ monitoring and control of gas turbine combustors.
 
 
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