Thu April-15, 1:30–2:30pm / Built Ecologies Lecture Series @ CASE/NYC [via Webex]:

Tim Carlson: “Intellectual Property in Architectural Research”

_Tim Carlson is an inventor and intellectual property lawyer, working as Senior Counsel for Texas Instruments since 1999. In 2008, Tim helped form Friendship Products (FP), a partnership committed to developing a new technology for plastic bottles that would address improving humanitarian housing and the environment. FP focused on making an interconnecting plastic bottle with direct up-cycled secondary use as building material and was able to make Friendship Bottles after eight years of research and development.
For the last three years, CASE and RPI have been working with FP to test their building characteristics and construction capabilities. Friendship Bottles are protected by 40 worldwide patents covering the bottles’ design, interconnecting characteristics and manufacturing process. Tim will be sharing his thoughts on how the different kinds of intellectual property (patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets) can be important to your career and how they may apply in architectural research