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SUMMARY:Patenting your idea with Richard Nix and Rick Boychuk
DESCRIPTION:-- Patenting your idea --\n\nRichard Nix and Rick Boychuk hav
 e patented ideas in the field of counterweight rigging. What a process! 
 Hear about the process and the costs of patenting an idea. Also about th
 e challenges of promoting a new product in the marketplace. If you have 
 ever thought to patent an idea, this will be an enlightening session.\n\
 nModerator: Russel Martin, CITT/ICTS Director at large\n\nLevel: Genera
 l (for all)\n\nDiscipline: Rigging; Patents.\n\nSession's outcomes:\n\n
 Attendees will have a glimpse into the world of patents that will allow 
 them to make a decision 'to patent or not to patent'.\n\nPresenters: \n
 \nRick Boychuk\nRick Boychuk has been working in the industry for a numb
 er of decades. As kind of an outlier working at various times in product
 ion, consulting, inventing and authoring. Specific to this session, Rick
  has seen two patents from concept to realized products in the marketpla
 ce.\n\nRichard Nix\nRichard Nix has 35 years of Entertainment Industry e
 xperience, doing some rather cool and unusual things along a (mostly) li
 near, but ever-evolving career path. Stagehand, designer, manager, owner
 , consultant, fixer, student, modeler, standards evangelist...Inventor? 
 In one of his many positions, he held the official title, “Wearer of H
 ats”. Who knew?\n
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