The Ideas Market

With the technology explosion that seemingly never ends, there’s
never been a more exciting time to be an inventor, an innovator
or a creator. But the same tech that brings an inventor’s ideas
to life also open us up to complications, and challenges that
make us vulnerable to threats from competitors who may want steal
our great ideas. And that’s why we have Intellectual Property
laws.


Michael Leachman is an attorney with Jones Walker who
specializes in Intellectual Property: patents, trademarks and
copyrights. In his decade at Jones Walker, Michael has prepared
and prosecuted patent applications covering a broad spectrum of
inventions and technologies in the mechanical, chemical,
biomedical, bioscience, and nanotechnology fields, and handles
trademarks, trade secrets, and unfair competition litigation in
federal and state courts.


Jason Hugenroth knows a lot about patents and intellectual
property. Jason is the owner of Inventherm, an
engineering R&D company that specializes in machine design
and thermal-fluid science for the medical, aerospace, defense,
automotive and energy industries. Since Inventherm’s founding,
Jason has earned more than 50 patents in compressor and thermal
system technology—including an oil-less air compressor for a
medical respirator product, basically a type of portable oxygen
concentrator.


You can find photos from this show over lunch at Mansurs on the
Boulevard by Karry Hosford at our website.


And there's more conversation about big ideas from local Baton
Rouge businesses, including a company that's developing a cure
for cancer, here.


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