EDITOR’S NOTE: The name of the law firm has been corrected.
SEQUIM –– Jacques Dulin holds “something like a dozen” patents, has helped shepherd through hundreds more and is the man responsible for the San Jose hockey team’s trademark shark.
“Ideas are assets,” Dulin said Monday.
“Sometimes people need help, as our motto says, transforming ideas into business assets.”
Dulin, who will only say his age is younger than 80, has spent the past 50 years helping inventors and entrepreneurs protect and develop their creations.
“It’s been a very, very enjoyable career because I work with creative people every day,” he said.
To mark his 50th anniversary, Dulin commissioned Tacoma sand sculptor Sue McGrew, whose work he saw at the Arts in Action festival in Port Angeles earlier this month, to create a sculpture outside his office, Innovation Law Group at 237 N. Sequim Ave.
The sculpture features an inventor and his robot working up a new idea alongside a trademark symbol, a copyright symbol and a light bulb with a dollar sign filament in front of an Abraham Lincoln quote reading “The patent system added the fuel of interest to the fire of genius.”
On the backside is the portion of the Constitution’s Establishment Clause that provides the basis for the patent system, Dulin said.
“This country was set out to be founded on ideas, because ideas have value,” Dulin said.
His wife, Jana, is the firm’s office manager and bookkeeper, and Nancy Parr works as its paralegal.
For more information, visit www.innovationlaw.com.
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Sequim-Dungeness Valley Editor Joe Smillie can be reached at 360-681-2390, ext. 5052, or at jsmillie@peninsuladailynews.com.
