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What a great meeting - check out the view! 

Speaker Dick Crippen is a popular Tampa Bay television and radio sports icon for more than 35 years!  19 year at WFLA, 16 year at WSTP - including 17 years as TB Buccaneer’s announcer.

Dick is currently in community development and is a senior advisor for the Tampa Bay Rays. He serves on many, many not for profit boards that serve our community. 

He was an integral member of the Super Bowl Task Force that landed three Super Bowls for Tampa Bay and has also been part of the birth of NFL Football, NASL Soccer, NHL Hockey and Major League Baseball in Tampa Bay. He was named Florida Sportscaster of the Year four times in the 90’s by the National Sporstcasters and Sportswriters Association.


 
The second hour of CPE was presented by David Ellis.  His presentation was “The Name’s the Game:  Branding, Trademark Domain Names and Cybersquatting."  Based in Largo he is a Florida attorney practicing in the areas of:
  • trademarks, copyrights, patents, trade secrets
  • intellectual property law
  • computer and cyberspace law
  • business, entertainment and arts law
  • franchise, licensing and contract law.

A graduate of M.I.T. and Harvard Law School, he is a registered patent attorney and Board Certified in Intellectual Property Law by the Florida Bar.

He is the author of the book, A Computer Law Primer, and numerous articles in legal, business and technological publications.

He has lectured widely throughout the country and taught Intellectual Property and Computer Law as an Adjunct Professor at the law schools of the University of Florida and Stetson University.


 
And then off to the game!