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Don enjoyed a successful career with the US Patent and Trademark Office. \u00a0With an engineering degree from VA Tech University, he received a Federal appointment as a Patent Examiner, progressing to Supervisory Patent Examiner and Technology Center Director. He served as Chief of Staff to the US Patent Commissioner and was inducted into the ranks of the elite Senior Executive Service.<\/span><\/p>\n Chasing his own dream, Don Kelly emerged as founding director of the USPTO\u2019s popular outreach programs in support of independent inventors, scheduling outreach conferences, co-founding the United Inventors Association (UIA), nurturing development of regional inventor associations, creating inventor-focused \u00a0pages of the USPTO website, fostering inclusion of independent inventor perspectives in USPTO policy making, establishing operational guidelines for monitoring and reporting \u201cbad actors\u201d among invention promotion firms. <\/span><\/p>\n He<\/span> is the founding principal of Intellectual Asset Management Associates, LLC (IAMA) – – an intellectual property law practice and invention commercialization consultancy which is based in Alexandria, VA and Sarasota, FL. \u00a0<\/span>www.patentagentplus.com<\/span><\/a> \u00a0He is registered to practice law as Patent Agent and credentialed as a Certified Licensing Professional. <\/span>To read more about this incredible man click here. <\/span><\/p>\n Mr. Kelly will be sharing the most important\u00a0 advice he’s\u00a0ever offered to inventors across the country…and the most valuable advice successful inventors have given him.\u00a0 Don’s counting on the lively Q&A he’s always enjoyed with ISSF.<\/span><\/p>\n Please don’t miss this opportunity to meet our Champion of the Independent Inventor at LIGI Tool & Engineering, Inc. (3220 SW 15<\/span>th<\/span> Street Deerfield Beach, Fl \u00a033442) at 1:00 pm on Saturday 2\/6\/16, hosted by the Inventors Society of South Florida a 501 (C) 3 non-profit educational organization. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n For more information go to our website <\/span>www.inventorssociety.net<\/span><\/a> or call 561-676-5677.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Champion of the Independent Inventor Don Kelly has devoted his life to the advancement of small business and the independent inventors who he regards as the backbone of American Ingenuity. Without him, the USPTO and the world in general would still consider us a bunch of useless dreamers. Don enjoyed a successful career … Continue reading “Past Speaker – Don Kelly – Patent Agent”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,18],"tags":[29,46,136,178],"class_list":["post-1501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-past-speakers","category-patents","tag-agent-with-the-uspto","tag-don-kelly","tag-patent-agent","tag-us-patent-and-trademark-office"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inventors-society.net\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inventors-society.net\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inventors-society.net\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inventors-society.net\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inventors-society.net\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inventors-society.net\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1502,"href":"https:\/\/inventors-society.net\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions\/1502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inventors-society.net\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inventors-society.net\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inventors-society.net\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Don-Kelly\"](\"http:\/\/www.inventors-society.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Don-Kelly.png\")
Don Kelly <\/b>has devoted his life to the advancement of small business and the independent inventors who he regards as the <\/span>backbone of American Ingenuity.<\/span><\/i> Without him, the USPTO and the world in general would still consider us a bunch of useless dreamers. <\/span><\/p>\n