MagicMethod Phone Sourcing Classroom Chat Log Tuesday, June 23, 2009

[Maureen Sharib]

MaureenSharib Hello everyone and welcome to class! See Steve's White Paper on searching the US Patent & Trademark office - accompaniment to today's class.
SteveLevy All, it covers one half of today; the other have uses the same stuff. Gotta be efficient these days
MaureenSharib Welcome everyone to today's class. Steve Levy is going to walk us through how to search the patent office for names...
Guest671 (guest) Is there audio? This is my first time here.
MaureenSharib Steve Levy - hello - you want to give us an idea what we'll cover today?
MaureenSharib No audio.
SteveLevy this is going to require that everyone follow on the net
MaureenSharib Okay so they have to open another window? where?
Petter (guest) I don't have sound, do I need it or will everything be typed?
SteveLevy I spent 2 years writing patents - with an eye on law school - when I realized that the last thing the world needed was another Jewish atty
SteveLevy everything will be typed
Animal No they needed another Jewish engineer
SteveLevy which I was but I had the idea once I started recruiting that I could use the patent database - db from now on - to source creative peeps but its a very technical process and has little in common with most job descrips
SteveLevy anyone here use the USPTO db 2 source?
SteveLevy waiting...
Petter (guest) no
dorothybeach (guest) No
SteveLevy any yesses?
MikeS (guest) not heard of it
SteveLevy make sure you all have a browser window open
SteveLevy waiting
MaureenSharib Steve why do we want to search the patent office database?
SteveLevy the USPTO is where the bright ones - and nearly all the time the passives ones who eschew job boards - are noted
MikeS (guest) What does USPTO refer?
SteveLevy United States patent and trademark office

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