{"632714":{"#nid":"632714","#data":{"type":"event","title":"ECE Student Seminar","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker:\u003C\/strong\u003E Mr. Philip H. Burrus, IV, Attorney at Law\/Patent Attorney, The Burrus Intellectual Property Law Group\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESeminar Topic:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EYou Never Know: How I went from ECE Student to Patent Attorney\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract of Talk: \u003C\/strong\u003EWhen I was at Tech, I took this same Seminar. We had many great speakers, from financial planners, to engineers, to entrepreneurs. One particularly interesting speaker was Gene Zimmer, a patent attorney with the Atlanta firm, Jones and Askew. He spoke about practicing law as a patent attorney, patent laws, rules, and the requirements necessary to patent inventions, and generally about being an attorney with an engineering undergraduate degree. It all sounded appealing, but I never thought I would have the opportunity to attend law school, much less become a patent attorney. Yet, here I am, because you just never know. I plan to share why that is true in my case, how I went from being an ECE student to becoming a patent attorney, and about life as an attorney. However, I am happy to talk about anything else, be it law school, intellectual property law, transitioning from engineering to law, or other topics, so please ask lots of questions.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EBiographical Sketch of the Speaker: \u003C\/strong\u003E Philip Burrus has a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (\u0026rsquo;93) and Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (\u0026rsquo;95) from Georgia Tech, a Master of Business Administration (\u0026rsquo;02) and Juris Doctor (\u0026rsquo;02) from Emory University, and a Master of Agriculture (\u0026rsquo;16) from Auburn University. Prior to starting the Burrus Intellectual Property Law Group, he worked as a Patent Attorney for Motorola, Inc. Prior to law school he worked as an Electrical Engineer for Motorola, Inc. and a Design Engineer for Schlumberger Limited. He has served as Chair of the Intellectual Property Section of the Georgia Bar and is also a certified sommelier.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EYou Never Know: How I went from ECE Student to Patent Attorney -\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp; Mr. Philip H. Burrus, IV, Attorney at Law\/Patent Attorney, The Burrus Intellectual Property Law Group\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"You Never Know: How I went from ECE Student to Patent Attorney"}],"uid":"27842","created_gmt":"2020-02-20 14:55:33","changed_gmt":"2020-02-20 14:55:47","author":"Ashlee Gardner","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2020-02-26T11:15:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2020-02-26T12:05:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2020-02-26T12:05:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2020-02-26 16:15:00","gmt_time_end":"2020-02-26 17:05:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2020-02-26 17:05:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPaul Steffes\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E404-894-3128\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}