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Circuit Break Podcast #112

Bruce Hamby and Owning Your Product

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Podcast Notes

  • Bruce Hamby
    • Attorney with the Hamby Law Firm
    • The Hamby Law Firm focuses on patents, intellectual property, trademarks and business law
    • Has been an attorney in the Houston region for over 15 years
    • Also a California attorney
  • Own Your Brand
    • One of first things to consider when bringing a product to market
    • What is the difference between a trademark and a copyright?
    • Register trademarks in U.S. and Internationally
    • Name is important as it denotes source and ensures that your name is legitimate and authentic
    • Don’t just protect your brand, protect your ideas
    • United States Patent and Trademark Offices (USPTO)
    • International filings
  • Own Your Technology
    • Patents
    • Establish ownership
    • Making sure it’s a quality patent to give you the most protection
    • Open Source? Licensing
    • Owning Your Tech in Other Countries
    • China and your intellectual property
  • Establish Freedom to Operate
    • Crucial step that shouldn’t be overlooked – listen to the reasons why
    • Reading/evaluating patents
    • How to conduct IP searches and evaluate if you infringe on a patent
    • Should you even look at other patents?
    • Is it illegal to try to patent something that you know is not original?

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About the Hosts

Parker Dillmann
  Parker Dillmann

Parker is an Electrical Engineer with backgrounds in Embedded System Design and Digital Signal Processing. He got his start in 2005 by hacking Nintendo consoles into portable gaming units. The following year he designed and produced an Atari 2600 video mod to allow the Atari to display a crisp, RF fuzz free picture on newer TVs. Over a thousand Atari video mods where produced by Parker from 2006 to 2011 and the mod is still made by other enthusiasts in the Atari community.

In 2006, Parker enrolled at The University of Texas at Austin as a Petroleum Engineer. After realizing electronics was his passion he switched majors in 2007 to Electrical and Computer Engineering. Following his previous background in making the Atari 2600 video mod, Parker decided to take more board layout classes and circuit design classes. Other areas of study include robotics, microcontroller theory and design, FPGA development with VHDL and Verilog, and image and signal processing with DSPs. In 2010, Parker won a Ti sponsored Launchpad programming and design contest that was held by the IEEE CS chapter at the University. Parker graduated with a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Spring of 2012.

In the Summer of 2012, Parker was hired on as an Electrical Engineer at Dynamic Perception to design and prototype new electronic products. Here, Parker learned about full product development cycles and honed his board layout skills. Seeing the difficulties in managing operations and FCC/CE compliance testing, Parker thought there had to be a better way for small electronic companies to get their product out in customer's hands.

Parker also runs the blog, longhornengineer.com, where he posts his personal projects, technical guides, and appnotes about board layout design and components.

Stephen Kraig
  Stephen Kraig

Stephen Kraig is a component engineer working in the aerospace industry. He has applied his electrical engineering knowledge in a variety of contexts previously, including oil and gas, contract manufacturing, audio electronic repair, and synthesizer design. A graduate of Texas A&M, Stephen has lived his adult life in the Houston, TX, and Denver, CO, areas.

Stephen has never said no to a project. From building guitar amps (starting when he was 17) to designing and building his own CNC table to fine-tuning the mineral composition of the water he uses to brew beer, he thrives on testing, experimentation, and problem-solving. Tune into the podcast to learn more about the wacky stuff Stephen gets up to.

Special thanks to whixr over at Tymkrs for the intro and outro!

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