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Creations of the Mind: A Dialogue with Students

Creations of the Mind: A Dialogue with Students

On April 30, 2010, 86 students from Liberty Middle School (Clifton, VA) and Maya Angelou Public Charter School (Washington, DC) attended Creations of the Mind—an event hosted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to teach middle schoolers about intellectual property and how it relates to their lives.

The event was co-sponsored by USPTO and the U.S. Department of Justice and conducted by Street Law, Inc. and the Constitutional Rights Foundation.

To kick off the event, students were welcomed by Robert L. Stoll, commissioner for patents at USPTO, and greeted via video by Raviv Ullman and Douglas Smith of His Orchestra, a Los Angeles-based musical group.

Students then participated in a series of interactive workshops, case studies, and activities to learn about different intellectual property issues. Specifically, students:

  • Participated as audience members of a “talk show”—hosted by Deborah Cohn, deputy commissioner for trademarks operations at USPTO—and questioned the show’s expert panel comprised of intellectual property attorneys from various backgrounds
  • Conducted a patent search in the USPTO’s search library
  • Toured the Global Intellectual Property Academy
  • Had a networking lunch with inventors, IP attorneys, and business owners

The Creations of the Mind event was part of the Educating to Protect Intellectual Property initiative—a collaborative effort of Street Law, Inc., and Constitutional Rights Foundation. To learn more about this initiative, please visit: www.educateip.org

Educating to Protect Intellectual Property (ePIP) is funded by grant 2009-BE-BX-0001 from the United States Patent and Trademark Office and supported by the United States Department of Justice. 



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Topic: Civic & Law-Related Education

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