Virtual Workshop - Protect Your Brand! Intellectual Property Tips for Your Small Business 

When you launch your business you work so hard to develop your name, brand, trade secrets, inventions, and other tools of your trade. It would be horrible if someone stole your smarts or demanded you stop using your intellectual property. Protecting your unique business name, your inventions, and other confidential information of your business can be a matter of success or failure for your business. This workshop is designed to help small business owners better understand their intellectual property rights in their business, and when, why, and how to take steps to protect their business smarts from others who might try to use or copy their intellectual property. Protecting intellectual property rights is just as important to small businesses as large businesses, and this workshop will show you why.

Speaker Biography

Kristy Cook, JD, MPA; Founder/ Managing Attorney, Mod Law Firm

Whether big or small, Kristy serves her for-profit business clients and her non-profit clients with passion and dedication, as an experienced legal advisor and advocate through Mod Law Firm. Kristy developed her tireless work ethic at Drake Law School and Portland State University's Mark O. Hatfield School of Government, and has cultivated her deep commitment to assisting small businesses and nonprofits for the last decade of her career. Having worked in large and small organizations in the non-profit, for-profit, and government sectors, Kristy is well versed in the legal challenges such organizations face. She is passionate about providing legal solutions for small businesses and nonprofits so they are better positioned to focus their valuable time and energies on what's really important - their work.