Seminar: Protecting Intellectual Property

December 9, 2007

Longtime TECH cocktailer Daliah Saper will be hosting a seminar to help entrepreneurs better understand how to protect their IP assets. If you anwser yes to any of the following questions you might want to attend:

Not sure what the difference is between a Patent, Trademark and Copyright?

Need to know how to register and protect Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights?

Trying to understand the terms in a non-compete or a confidentiality agreement?

Curious about the difference between an employee and an independent contractor?

The seminar is titled Protecting your Intellectual Property Assets: A discussion of Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights & Tech Business Law will be one hour held at Saper Law Offices to help answer the questions posed above.

Details are as follows:

Event: Protecting your Intellectual Property Assets: A discussion of Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights & Tech Business Law
For: Tech entrepreneurs and Individuals employed by tech companies
Date: Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Time: Noon CST
Location: Saper Law Office (map it)
203 North Wabash
Building Conference Room
Chicago, Illinois 60601
Cost: FREE! (Brown Bag Lunch).

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TECH cocktail Specials Jobs: 12.07.07

December 7, 2007

As we mentioned in our announcement earlier this week we are going to be spotlighting some the employment opportunities that have been posted to the TECH cocktail Specials job board. Here are some of the super TECH cocktail Specials job listings from the week ending December 7, 2007:

On the TECH cocktail Specials Job Menu
Software Engineer at Centro in Chicago, Illinois.Innovation Engineer at Inventables in Chicago, Illinois.

Senior Java Consultant at EDL Consulting based out of Chicago Illinois (100% travel).Web Designer at Viget Labs in Durham, North Carolina.

UI Designer at mediafly.com in Chicago, Illinois.

Editorial Manager and Content Guru at WEBook.com in Bethesda, Maryland.

Ruby on Rails Developer at Viget Labs in Falls Church, Virginia.

Product Manager at Cappex in Highland Park, Illinois.

Java Software Engineer at Clearspring in (Tyson’s Corner) McLean, Virginia.

Senior Sales Executive at Netconcepts based in either Chicago, Illinois or Madison, Wisconsin.

Director, Online Product Management & Development at WEbook.com in Bethesda, Maryland.

Software Tester / QA at Centro in Chicago, Illinois.

Online Marketing Coordinator at Blue Sky Factory in Bethesda, Maryland.

Web Applications Engineer at Sphere and work from anywhere as part of the remote team.

Product Manager at Clearspring in (Tyson’s Corner) McLean, Virginia.

Web Interface Designer at Centro in Chicago, Illinois.

C#/asp.net Developer at mediafly.com in Chicago, Illinois.

see more jobs…

More jobs…
These are just some of the recent cool jobs posted on the TECH cocktail Specials for MORE JOBS. If you’re looking for a design, programming, marketing, product development or IT executive job - Check It Out!

Oh and don’t forget to wish TECH cocktail co-founder Eric Olson a happy birthday today!

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Reminder: Chicago Ignite - 12/06

December 5, 2007

As we mentioned previously, TECH cocktailer Sean Harper has organized an event called Ignite Chicago based on the Ignite event made popular by Brady Forest of O’Reilly Media. The event will take place tomorrow evening with a change in venue.

Check out the details below:

Date: December 6, 2007
Time: 6pm
Location: Debonair Social Club in Wicker Park at 1575 N Milwaukee Avenue.
RSVP: Register at Upcoming.org

Speakers:
Harper Reed - skinnyCorp
Jason Fried - 37 Signals
Erin McKean - Oxford University Press
Matt Lincoln - Beer Brewer
Adrian Holovaty (tentative) - Chicago Crime & EveryBlock

The event agenda is as follows:
6pm — Ignite Content Begins
8pm — Ignite Talks Round 1 Begin
9:15pm — Ignite Talks Round 2 Begin

More information to be had at: http://ignite-chicago.org/

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TECH cocktail Specials Job Menu Is Back

December 4, 2007

We have been getting lots of emails asking us to post jobs to our site so we decided it was great time to bring back TECH cocktail Specials! The TECH cocktail Specials Job Board offers a menu of the latest technology-related job listings as we continue with our mission of helping to amplify the local technology signal - this time for employers and job seekers everywhere.

To post or find a job visit: techcocktail.com/jobs.
It is a mere $30 for 30 days to post to a job listing to the cocktail Specials job menu.

In addition, we will be regularly posting a round-up to our main TECH cocktail site some of the super jobs from each week to help reach both our local and national TECH cocktailers.

Is your cocktail Special job listed on the menu?

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