This Month's Featured Speaker
Damon Kali, Patent Attorney

How to save thousands of dollars in patent attorney's fees

Ok so, you need to patent your invention, right? Nope! Wrong!

You are not really patenting just your invention. You are staking out the area of property that you will protect and harvest. That is, you are patenting any and all components or features of your invention that have new and useful functions (in patent speak they call it "utility").
 
Damon will answer the following questions: 

• How do you figure out which parts of your invention you need to protect?
  
  
• What is the protection you get?
• How do you think about protection?
• What are "novel" elements?
• How are dependent claims used to overcome rejections and how do they help you?
• How many elements can you claim?
  
  
• How do you protect your novel elements today?
  
  
• How do you protect those elements tomorrow?
  
  

• How to save thousands of dollars in patent attorney's fees
  
  
• How to protect inventions that many people might think are unprotectable
  
  
• He will also show you how and why quite often you, the inventor, are going to be more creative in figuring out what to protect than your patent attorney

BIO - Damon Kali, Patent Attorney, Kali Law Group, P.C.

Mr. Kali specializes in patent prosecution and associated client counseling. His practice emphasizes the preparation and prosecution of patent applications in a wide range of technologies including semiconductor device fabrication, bioinformatics, gene chip technology, computer software, and digital imaging equipment.

Prior to attending law school Mr. Kali worked for Gruntec America where he gained valuable experience in biohazardous waste remediation, which included thermal analysis of incineration devices used in the destruction of heterogeneous waste streams, process control modeling and software implementation for automated incineration devices, and emission control systems to meet EPA and NAFTA requirements for incineration devices both in the United States and Mexico. Mr. Kali also developed a hybrid full stream video system to deliver educational content for SERA Learning Technologies in cooperation with Stanford University, Sun Systems, Chico State University, and California Polytechnic University.

While attending Santa Clara University he was the President of the Intellectual Property Association, a member of Phi Delta Phi Legal Honors Fraternity and a La Raza Mentor. He also completed the High Tech Certificate Program while attending Santa Clara.

Mr. Kali is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and is a member of the California Bar Association.