Meddin Studios

Every company owns at least one piece of intellectual property, its name. Choosing your company’s name, distinguishing your company from other businesses, and protecting your mark with a federal registration from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) are among the important intellectual property issues to be discussed in this presentation. In a global marketplace in which most companies can be found with a few mouse clicks, your customer’s ability to find you and/or your products is too important not to take seriously.

Depending on your role or your client’s role in the entertainment industry, your company may also own valuable creative works. The presentation will focus on how to know what works your company owns, how to protect those works, and how to receive money from other company’s use of your works.

Nathan Belzer, Esq., an intellectual property attorney, founded Belzer PC in 2004 in Savannah. Before founding Belzer PC, he headed the intellectual property law practice at Hunter Maclean in Savannah and was a member of the intellectual propertyand technology transactions groups of Locke, Liddell & Sapp in Houston, Texas. Nathan focuses his practice on filing and prosecuting trademark applications before the USPTO and globally, drafting and negotiating various intellectual property licensing agreements and other commercial transactions. Nathan’s clients range from start-ups to publicly-traded companies to a Fortune 100 client.


Nathan Belzer, Esq	Kate Strain, Esq.

Kate Strain, Esq. is also an intellectual property attorney at Belzer PC. She began her legal career at Hunter Maclean where she worked in the intellectual property practice with Nathan Belzer. At Hunter Maclean she protected the intellectual property of various serial entrepreneurs, a publicly traded company and small businesses. Kate focuses her practice on the protection of her clients’ intellectual property through filing and prosecuting trademark applications and helps her clients expand their businesses through licensing agreements and other commercial transactions. Kate also practices franchise law and she recently helped a local client become a franchisor.

Belzer, PC

Join us at Meddin Studios on Thursday, May 13, for the second in a series of presentations that will focus on themes relevant to the entertainment industry in Georgia, and more specifically, Savannah.

Thursday, May 13, 2010
4:00pm-4:30pm - Meet and Greet
4:30pm-5:30pm - Presentation/Q&A
5:30pm-6:30pm - Networking/Cocktail Reception

Meddin Studios
2315 Louisville Rd
Savannah, GA 31415

RSVP
Staci Donegan
ph: 912-944-6111 e: s.donegan@meddinstudios.com