Intellectual Property - Out to Lunch - It's Baton Rouge

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 and D
company that specializes in machine design and thermal-fluid
science for the medical, aerospace, defense, automotive and energy
industries. Since Inventherms 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.

Photos over lunch at Mansurs on the Boulevard by Karry Hosford.

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