Pro Bono Case Helps Team of Students
This unique pro bono case had me meet a team of students ranging from grades four to six. The team and their coaches took a road trip from New Hampshire to our Intellectual Property office in downtown Boston, where they presented their First Lego League project in front of me and my colleagues.
If you are not familiar with First Lego League, it encourages elementary and middle school students around the world to research a real-world problem (ex. food safety, energy, or recycling), and challenges them to come up with a solution by encouraging them to design, build, and program a robot. Not any easy feat to accomplish between homework, family time, and play time.
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We are not at liberty to share the details of team The Technical Difficulties!’ inner workings, but I can say they have selflessly chosen to focus on a robot that will help the world of the blind and their faithful seeing-eye dogs.
I have enjoyed the process of advising and guiding the team through the beginning of their patent filing journey by filing a Provisional Patent Application for the invention. Disclosure: a provisional patent application allows you to file without a formal patent claim, oath or declaration, or any information disclosure statement. After filing the Provisional Patent Application, the team took another trip to Boston so that we could discuss how best to continue their journey.
All of us here at Preti Flaherty look forward to seeing where their IP journey takes them from here.
