{"id":33701,"date":"2009-12-16T12:15:12","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T17:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/swcommunity\/swugn-year-in-review-may-2009"},"modified":"2009-12-16T12:15:12","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T17:15:12","slug":"swugn-year-in-review-may-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2009\/12\/swugn-year-in-review-may-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"SWUGN Year in Review &#8211; May 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Top Story<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swugn.org\/pages\/calendar\/UGdetails.html?id=180\" target=\"_blank\">COSUG<\/a> leader and SolidWorks user Kelly Frazier passes the patent bar exam and becomes a Registered Patent Agent.&#160; The license allows Kelly to practice patent law before the USPTO.&#160; It also gives her company (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thnktions.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">THNKtions, LLC<\/a>) a leg up on the competition.&#160; Business owner, SolidWorks User, User Group Leader, and now Lawyer.&#160; Way to go Kelly!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Honorable Mentions<\/strong><br \/>Randall Bock orders LOTS of food for the upcoming SWUGN Summit &#8211; Happy Valley.&#160; What he doesn&#039;t know at the time is that people will be really hungry, and the food doesn&#039;t last.&#160; Several of us make up for it with all-you-can-eat ribs at Damon&#039;s following the event.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\" target=\"_blank\">SolidWorks<\/a> CEO Jeff Ray starts making plans to attend June user group meetings in Southern California.&#160; Lots of people are anxious to get some of Jeff&#039;s time.&#160; 15 minutes and 127 emails later, he&#039;s booked solid.<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta finally gets a SWUGN Technical Summit event.&#160; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swugn.org\/pages\/calendar\/UGdetails.html?id=206\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Area SolidWorks User Group<span id=\"fck_dom_range_temp_1260983379406_210\"><\/span><\/a> leader Tom Ellis is pleased, although nearly 25%&#160;of the&#160;attendees live outside of Georgia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top StoryCOSUG leader and SolidWorks user Kelly Frazier passes the patent bar exam and becomes a Registered Patent Agent.&#160; The license allows Kelly to practice patent law before the USPTO.&#160; It also gives her company (THNKtions, LLC) a leg up<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2009\/12\/swugn-year-in-review-may-2009.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}