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Professor Piroozi, '06, Connects IU McKinney Students with USPTO Program; Video in Works for Inventors
08/30/2017
Visiting Professor Hamid Piroozi, ’06, has worked with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on a program that will link IU McKinney students with entrepreneurs who have inventions that need patent protection. Work on this program will get under way in the Fall 2017 semester. Five individuals are seeking the help of the program, and Professor Piroozi is connecting them with students, who will work under his supervision.
“This will be valuable experiential training for students,” Professor Piroozi said. The program was certified by the USPTO during Summer 2017.
In addition, Professor Piroozi has plans to create a video aimed at inventors that will enable them to better research their ideas before investing time, energy, and resources in something that has already been patented. The video would instruct inventors on how to best perform their own research, he said.
Professor Piroozi joined the faculty at IU McKinney in January 2017. He worked as an engineer for 17 years, first working as a mechanical engineer and then as an electrical engineer. He received three Purdue engineering degrees, and has worked at three different metropolitan Indianapolis law firms on intellectual property matters. He also serves as a Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor of Engineering on the IUPUI campus.
