IgniteOKC Sparks Creativity and Rockin Good Time

Everyone at Dunlap Codding is extremely proud of Emily E. Campbell and Michelle M. Llanderosos for the incredible work they undertook in igniteokc_logo[1]organizing and spearheading the steering committee for Oklahoma City’s first Ignite event – IgniteOKC (Twitter: @igniteokc).

Dunlap Codding was thrilled to be able to sponsor the event, support the efforts of Emily and Michelle and encourage the efforts of everyone on the steering committee, including:

Seth Spillman     Dirk Keiser     Michael To
Blake Jackson     Justin Briggs     Tyler Smith
Sandip Patel         Jory Burson       Melanie Goodman Keiser
Robert Campbell

IgniteOKC #2 will be in the summer of 2010 and IgniteTulsa #2 (Twitter: @ignitetulsa) will be March 4, 2010 at the Blue Dome Diner in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  The Tulsa folks were a great inspiration to IgniteOKC and we encourage everyone – no matter where they are located in Oklahoma – to travel to Tulsa for IgniteTulsa #2.  You won’t be disappointed!

Emily, as Chair Woman of the event, was interviewed by NewsOK and gave a fantastic overview of the Ignite event:



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IgniteOKC – Leadership Committee Meeting

Want to be a part of something cool in Oklahoma City? Well – come help us prepare for IgniteOKC.  We will provide some snacks and drinks – you provide your brain and creativity.

What is Ignite, you ask? Ignite

Ignite is a community intellect exchange – it is an open forum to share your knowledge, learn what others think is cool and socialize. Ignite captures the best of geek culture in a series of five-minute speedy presentations on topics ranging from “The Best Way to Buy a Car” to “Hacking Chocolate.” Imagine that you’re on stage in front of an audience of hundreds of people, doing a five-minute presentation using a slide deck that auto-forwards every 15 seconds, whether you’re ready or not. What would you do? What would you say? Could you stand the pressure?

Wanna find out more?

Click here to find out how some of the smartest minds on the planet dealt with the Ignite five-minute presentation format as Brady Forrest, co-creator of Ignite, highlights a different talk from Ignites all around the world. Some of our favorite presentations…

A must watch for any potential presenter…

Wanna get involved?

There are many jobs that need doing to produce an Ignite. One person can do them all (thought it’s a lot of work), but it’s easier, and more fun, if more people are involved. Dunlap Codding will be hosting a happy hour to organize a leadership committee of people to execute the inaugural event and grow Ignite OKC into a signature metro event. We thought you would be an excellent asset to the team. Know anyone else who would would like to be a part of the Ignite OKC leadership committee? Please feel free to bring them along. Here are some of the jobs that need to be done:

  1. Marketing/Promotion/Sponsorship/PR coordinators
  2. Venue liason
  3. Ignite talk coordinator
  4. Ignite talk MC
  5. Ignite Contest coordinator
  6. Ignite Contest MC
  7. Videographer
  8. Onsite Help — set up, hand out badges and drink tickets, clean up

When and Where

Please join us Wednesday September 23rd from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Iguana Mexican Grill (Google map) to kick off this exciting initiative for Oklahoma City. Please RSVP to Emily Campbell by e-mail ecampbell@dunlapcodding.com or by phone (405) 607-8600. Hope to see you there!

If you want to see a live local Ignite event in person…

We got scooped!  The folks up in Tulsa got out of the gate first – but we don’t mind.  We needed to have a little cross-state rivalry to get things cooking.  Come join us at IgniteTulsa on September 17 at the Blue Dome Diner.  Don’t wait to make your reservation to attend – space is filling up!



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Nicholas D. Rouse named Managing Director of Dunlap Codding, PC

I am really pleased to be able to announce that the shareholders of Dunlap Codding, PC have named Nicholas D. Rouse our new managing director.

“Nick is the perfect person to lead the firm as we expand,” said fellow shareholder Douglas J. Sorocco. “Not only does he have the respect of all our lawyers and staff for his keen and precise legal mind, but he is held in high esteem for his steady and consistent demeanor. Nick’s dedication to excellence in client service makes him an excellent ombudsman on behalf of our firm.”

Nick graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1987 with a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering, and received his Juris Doctor from the University of Oklahoma in 1990. He is a member and immediate past president of the Intellectual Property Law Section of the Oklahoma Bar Association. Mr. Rouse was admitted to the Oklahoma Bar in 1990 and became registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office in 1992.



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An attraction worth “checking out”

Library booksIt seems everyone is a blogger these days, including librarians.  There is even a specific site for “news, commentary, and stories for and about Oklahoma Libraries.”  Fortunately, they have called attention to the Oklahoma Inventors Congress Annual Meeting being held on the OSU campus in Stillwater, Oklahoma on August 12th and reminded everyone that there is a Patent and Trademark Library located on that campus.  For those headed to Stillwater next month, the library may be an attraction worth checking out.   

If you can’t make it to the meeting, the librarians have provided other useful information and links worth looking into on their site



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Oklahoma Inventor’s Congress

The annual meeting of the Oklahoma Inventors Congress (OIC) will be held Saturday, August 12, 2006 on the campus of Oklahoma State University in Stillwater in the Advanced Technology Research Center (ATRC).   Reading over the OIC 2006 annual meeting brochure, it is interesting to note that for this year’s meeting, time is set aside for product promotion.  And as if you didn’t need another reason to register early, if you RSVP by August 10th, there may be a complimentary meal ticket in it for you.

The OIC brings together the inventive community uniting them in common causes.  Their website is very informative and worth taking a look at.  In addition to the annual meeting, the OIC meets about once a month to discuss all aspects of the inventive process.  For more information on the OIC annual meeting or on the OIC in general, contact Dan Hoffman at (405) 348–7794.

 



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How Should States Encourage Entrepreneurship?

Interesting commentary by Joshua Hall over at The Independent Institute considering Oklahoma’s interest in creating a billion dollar investment pool for innovation and entrepreneurship.

While of specific interest to me because of the Oklahoma connection, I would recommend it as an interesting twist on the debate occurring right now on the role of state investment in early stage innovation.

A snippet:

Using the number of sole proprietorships and patent activity in a state as measures of entrepreneurship, Kreft and Sobel find that increased entrepreneurship causes more venture capital to automatically flow into the state. More importantly, they find that influxes of new venture capital do not then cause entrepreneurship to increase. Crowding out of private venture capital is one possible reason why state funded venture capital fails to increase entrepreneurship. This suggests that the trend of state-sponsored venture capital funds have the cart before the horse. Since entrepreneurial activity appears to be what attracts venture capital into a state, the best way to encourage entrepreneurship within a state is to focus on creating a policy environment where individuals are free to be innovative.

Unfortunately Wisconsin is currently planning to invest $50 million from its $66.5 billion state employee trust fund state into venture capital firms that invest primarily in local companies. Similar efforts have been undertaken in other states, including Colorado, Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Minnesota. However Kreft and Sobel’s new research shows that state financing of venture capital in these states is unlikely to stimulate entrepreneurship.

How Should States Encourage Entrepreneurship?: Newsroom: The Independent Institute.



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ATTENTION OKLAHOMA INVENTORS!

For Immediate Release

OKLAHOMA CITY July 25, 2005

The annual meeting of the Oklahoma Inventors Congress, OIC will be held Saturday, August 13, 2005 on the Campus of Oklahoma State University in Stillwater in the Advanced Technology Research Center (ATRC) beginning with registration at 8:15 a.m.

The theme for the program presentation, “Focusing on Marketing” will be highlighted by a formal program to be presented by Boshears & Boshears.

Boshears & Boshears is a Tulsa, Oklahoma based firm with satellite offices in Foligno, Italy and provides cutting edge consulting services in the areas of Product, Business, Marketing, Sales and Management Development.

Members of the OIC will have a “juried” product exhibition starting at the 12:00 noon luncheon break. New products developed and Patented by OIC members will be included in the exhibition and will range from medical applications and transportation equipment, to consumer products including safety products for use in law enforcement. The short official annual meeting is scheduled to end by 2:00 p.m.

The OIC is a non-profit membership educational association dedicated to the development and profitable marketing of Intellectual Property for its members. OIC works in conjunction with Inventors Assistance Service (IAS) which is funded by the Legislature thru OCAST.

For more information regarding the Oklahoma Inventors Congress annual meeting or the monthly Oklahoma City OIC Chapter meetings: contact Bill Baker 405-947-6950

For information regarding the monthly Tulsa OIC Chapter meetings contact Jim Quintus 918-274-1037

To RSVP by August 10 for your complimentary OIC Annual Meeting luncheon ticket call: Jill Nuckolls, IAS at: 1-877-577-7632 or 405-744-8727.



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Oklahoma/Texas Intellectual Property CLE Weekend

The Intellectual Property Section of the Oklahoma Bar Association will be presenting it’s annual CLE program at the Tanglewood Resort on Lake Texoma (satellite map) the weekend of June 3–5, 2005.  The PDF brochure is available here.

Along with Pete Peterson’s patent law year-in-review (which is always the highlight of the weekend), featured topics will include a copyright law year in review, a planel discussion on the state of technology transfer in Oklahoma, trademark enforcement in cyberspace and the risks associated with open source software.

Registration is $345 for Oklahoma Bar members and $370 for nonmembers.  The weekend has been approved for 8 hours of Oklahoma CLE credit and Texas approval is pending.

Tanglewood is a great venue for the weekend, the information looks to be extremely interesting and timely and the Board members of the Intellectual Property Section have numerous family and social activities planned – including a golf tournament Saturday afternoon.

 



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You Can Take the Cocks out of Oklahoma – Or Can You?

At PHOSITA, we were pretty embarrassed to be scooped on a great story by 271 Blog, “PATENTS, PUBLIC POLICY AND COCKFIGHTING – ALWAYS A WINNING COMBINATION.”

The voters of Oklahoma decided that the lethal sport of cockfighting was unacceptable in 2002. Now, a proponent of the “sport” has introduced a bill that would allow modified non-lethal cockfighting.

You may be wondering how on earth the “sport” could be non-lethal. This is where a currently pending patent application enters the picture. Patent application publication number 2004/0009797, entitled “Non-Lethal Gamecock Sparring Match, Equipment & Methods” was invented by three Californians before the Oklahoma ban took effect. The abstract states that the invention is

A non-lethal method of cock fighting includes providing each gamecock with a garment such as a vest or collar that at least partially covers the body of the gamecock and carries a sensor at a predetermined location on the garment and a signal transmission device. The signal transmission device generates a signal when the sensor is struck by a gamecock. The spurs of each gamecock are covered with a protective device to prevent the spurs from causing injury during the cock fight and their beaks are taped shut. A scoring apparatus is provided that is responsive to the signal and includes a visual display that displays a numerical score for each gamecock. The numerical score is based, at least in part, on the number strikes detected by the sensor being struck over a predetermined time period during the cock fight.

“To me it answers everything. It saves the industry, takes blood sport out and generates revenue for Oklahoma,” the legislator said.

Only in Oklahoma!



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Oklahoma Inventor’s Congress – An Untapped Resource

Last night, Nick Rouse and I visited the local meeting of the Oklahoma Inventor’s Congress. I must say, I was impressed. These folks have gotten together a wealth of resources, and are more than willing to share their stories of the invention process from concept to completion. They were very friendly and inviting. If you would like to learn more about the group, click here. If you’re interested in seeing some of their inventions, click on the link “Inventions,” or click here.

If you’re an Oklahoma inventor, or just interested in supporting inventors, they have monthly meetings and welcome visitors. For more information, check out their website.



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