Our Attendees

Chisum Patent Academy seminar attendees include attorneys (law firm partners and associates as well as solo practitioners), patent agents, experienced paralegals, patent analysts, business managers, engineers, scientists, judicial law clerks, and law librarians. Our past seminars have included participants from law firms, corporations, and universities including Samsung Electronics, Microsoft Corp., Amazon.com, Research in Motion Ltd., Intellectual Ventures, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Thomson Licensing, Church & Dwight Co., Tethys Bioscience, Gen-Probe Inc., Coloplast Group, Bunge Ltd., Kao Chemical (Japan), NDS Israel, MDI Holdings, Mold Masters Inc., Switch Materials Inc., IdeaFlood, CGG Veritas (France), Merrimack Pharmaceuticals, and the University of Alberta.

Chisum Patent Academy students have wide-ranging backgrounds including engineering, the sciences, business, finance, marketing, communications, and fine arts. A technical background is not required or expected of our seminar participants, but a willingness to engage with basic aspects of inventions from varied fields of technology is an important part of any patent law educational experience.