W|N's Vernon Rice Joins USU's Center for Entrepreneurial Spirit As One Its Founders

W|N was recently invited to join Utah State University's Jon M. Hunstman Business School's Center for Entrepreneurial Spirit as one its Founders. Vernon Rice, formerly Chief Patent Counsel at DuPont and now Of Counsel with Workman Nydegger, will represent W|N at the USU Center. The newly formed Center for Entrepreneurial Spirit is dedicated to promoting entrepreneurship throughout the University, as well as supporting the commercialization of University-developed technologies. The Center will strive to instill in students innovative business thinking, new venture competencies, ethical leadership and principles of operational excellence to strengthen local, national and global economies and societies. For more information visit huntsman.usu.edu/entspirit.

W|N is also actively involved in the entrepreneurial programs at the University of Utah and Brigham Young University.

Based in Salt Lake City, W|N has earned recognition as one of the top patent prosecution and intellectual property litigation firms in the nation. The firm represents a wide array of clients in all areas of intellectual property law, including patent, trademark, copyright, unfair competition, and related litigation and licensing.