Guest speaker Luis Figarella, was born and grew up in Bayamon PR.  A graduate of UPR with a Masters from Boston U in Systems Engineering, he is a registered Patent Agent and professional engineer.  Making his home in Nashua NH, Luis has helped customers in over 10 states, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic & Ecuador. He spoke of the many types of patents such as, intellectual property, industrial secrets, and copyrights, to name a few. Our speaker is a co-inventor of over 14 US patents, and has participated in the development of the MaxiCode and Data Matrix symbologies and scanners with both UPS and Int’l Data Matrix.  Both symbologies are daily used in well over 15 million new individual items.