[Patentpractice] You get to determine the next few cities for PCT seminars!

[Carl Oppedahl]

Okay, folks.  Now you get to determine where the next few live in-person 
PCT seminars will take place.  The way you get to determine this is by 
responding to this survey 
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScGYxSwX2WmdYmesL79X0Xm-KOwarc2jhKbsbEFAXK90cElNA/viewform?usp=header>.  
I will collect responses for the next 7-10 days. Then I will sort and 
rank the responses.  Whatever city gets the largest number of estimated 
attendees (estimated by you, dear listserv members) will, barring some 
surprise, be the city where I place the next live in-person PCT 
seminar.  Second- and third-place ranked cities will likely be the next 
places.

For extra credit, there are two ways to skew the results in the 
direction of your favorite city:

  * /*First way. */Provide a classroom space, perhaps in a meeting room
    at your corporation or law firm. Your corporation or firm would then
    receive some number of free badges in return for providing the
    classroom for others. If you are interested in this, let me know and
    I can send you an RFP that describes the needs for such a classroom.*/
    /*
  * */Second way./*  Do the footwork to nail down a suitable classroom
    in some hotel or other rentable event space, saving me from having
    to do what is usually ten or fifteen hours of emails and phone calls
    with a number of hotels in a given location.  Make it so that I need
    only say "yes" to the hotel and sign a contract.  If you are
    interested in this, let me know and I can send you an RFP that
    describes the needs for such a classroom.  You would get at least
    one free badge for doing this thankless footwork.

So please folks, this is your chance to complete the survey. By doing 
so, you can determine where the next few live in-person PCT seminars 
will take place.

Carl

On 1/16/2025 10:36 AM, Carl Oppedahl via Pct wrote:
>
> Hello folks.  By now since Covid I have done two live in-person PCT 
> seminars.  Last June in the mountains of Colorado and last week down 
> by the Denver airport.  I felt good about how each of them went.  Here 
> are some of the evals for the June seminar:
>
>   * one of the best training seminars I have ever attended.
>   * everything was fantastic.  I appreciated that you interacted with
>     the attendees and answered questions.
>   * I LOVED IT!!
>   * Mr. Oppedahl is a good presenter, wants attendees to learn, and is
>     generous.
>   * This was another great Carl Oppedahl seminar!
>   * I had a good time, learned a lot, met some nice people, and will
>     take my new knowledge to my co-workers.
>   * Please keep doing these seminars!
>   * Keep Carl presenting!  He is wonderful!
>   * This was such a great experience!  I learned so many new things,
>     had questions answered, and a wonderful refresher on topics I was
>     already familiar with.  I thoroughly enjoyed the in-person
>     environment.  So much valuable and useful information presented in
>     this seminar.
>   * Really enjoyed this.  It made me feel better about myself.
>   * Please keep doing these!  Thank you!
>   * This sort of educational seminar from such a knowledgeable and
>     energetic source is invaluable.
>
> So now I am thinking I ought to do some more of these live in-person 
> PCT seminars.   And I am thinking I should go to where the attendees 
> are.  Which raises the natural question, where are the would-be 
> attendees?  What I will do in the next day or so is post a survey 
> asking people if they might want to attend a live in-person PCT 
> seminar in Alexandria or San Jose and so on.  I would then use the 
> survey responses to select the next couple of seminar locations.
>
> The question right now is what cities to list as response options in 
> the survey?    If you would like to nominate a city to be listed as an 
> option in the survey, please let me know.
>
> Carl
>
>
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