According to legalzoom.com, “Intellectual property rights are the ownership rights you have over things that you create as a result of your original ideas.”

As entrepreneurship has grown in New Mexico, so have the number of resources available to help innovators protect the economic value of their intellectual property.

Innovators can get help from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), which offers online workshops and support events year-round. For example, its ‘Trademark Basics Boot Camp’ takes participants from the fundamentals of trademarks to application filing. And its ‘Together in Innovation’ series lets participants hear from successful entrepreneurs that have navigated the IP path. Join the newest event in the series on September 28, when the inventor of Safety Pouch and his venture capitalist mentor discuss how mentors can help entrepreneurs on their innovation journey. Register for the free online event.

Prefer an in-person event? The Albuquerque co-working space BioScience Center is hosting the director of the Texas Regional USPTO and other experts on September 22 to discuss different types of IP (patents, trademarks, trade secrets, and copyrights) and the importance of understanding each type to protect ideas. Register for the brown-bag lunch event.

The New Mexico Energy Resilience and Growth Cluster, known as CERG (sounds like surge), in collaboration with Arrowhead Center at New Mexico State University, has launched an online introductory course to help first-time patent applicants learn how to protect their intellectual property. Del Mackey describes the self-guided, self-paced course in the video overview below. Or go directly to the course on Canvas.

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