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WINTER SPRINGS, Fla. (March 16, 2009)-- Everyone has big ideas
for useful products or processes to make life easier. But patenting
the next big idea is a big step, says Paul Royal, the founder and
chief executive officer of the Patent Guild, Inc., a client company
of the University of Central Florida’s Winter Springs/Seminole County Business Incubator.
Royal, who holds degrees in both mechanical engineering and the
law, said his firm facilitates patent research, planning and presentations
and intellectual property education.
Royal’s goal is to develop a corps of highly skilled patent agents and patent specialists who can assist inventors, engineers and scientists in protecting and commercializing their ideas.
“We are seeing enormous growth in patent research and documentation,” Royal said. “Our work is highly sophisticated, and our specialists and agents possess a wide range of expertise with resourceful work habits, because everything we handle is a brand new product.”
Royal is offering seminars for engineering students at Valencia
Community College to focus on program requirements and patent methodologies.
“The patent system requires the applicant to demonstrate that an invention is truly unique,” Royal said. “For patents in technology, engineering, biomedical and chemistry fields, the research can be quite challenging and the value is incalculable.”
“We want to make patent work affordable and accessible to more inventors,” Royal said. “We want to duplicate our efforts in locations across the state. The keys to our future lie in technology and the sorts of advances technology can facilitate and we feel we are playing an important role,” he said.
For more information contact:
Paul Royal, B.S.M.E., J.D., Chief Executive Officer, The Patent Guild,
Inc. 407-610-2097; paul.royal@thepatentguild.com or see www.thepatentguild.com;
Esther Vargas-Davis, Site Manager, UCF Incubator–Seminole County,
407-278-4881; evargasd@mail.ucf.edu;
Dr. Tom O’Neal, Executive Director, UCF Incubation Program, 407-882-1120;
Larry Vershel or Beth Payan, Larry Vershel Communications, 407-644-4142
About the UCF Incubation Program
Since its founding in 1999, the UCF Incubation Program has helped
more than 100 emerging companies (including nearly 70 current clients)
create over $500 million in annual revenue and more than 900 new
jobs with an average salary of $59,000. With five facilities across
the Greater Orlando community, the Incubation Program is a collaboration
in economic development between the University of Central Florida,
Orange County, the City of Orlando, Seminole County, the City of
Winter Springs, and the Florida High Tech Corridor Council. For more
information, please visit http://www.incubator.ucf.edu. |
