THE 1995 RESOURCE MATCHING PROGRAM The competitiveness of U.S. companies is of critical importance to our economic well being. Increasingly open international markets and decreasing government defense procurements present growing challenges to company profits and retaining a sound business base. In response, companies are focusing on their core competencies to develop new markets and new technologies. The goal of the Resource Matching Program is to simplify your task of finding definitive technical, legal, financial, and marketing assistance to augment your own expertise and to complement your current growth strategies. To do this, we have coordinated with an extensive array of public and private sector organizations to provide you with information on how to finance your exports, commercialize promising technologies, or penetrate new commercial or defense markets. This multifaceted program consists of a series of workshops, surveys, and trade and investment publications that provide tangible assistance on these and other issues to small firms, prime contractors, subcontractors, and communities. We bring together the combined resources of over 60 organizations to present concise and affordable workshops and resource materials for companies faced with limited time and budgets. Participants in these workshops will have a opportunity to ask executives and government experts about the strategies they pursued, the challenges they overcame, and the successes they achieved. While this comprehensive initiative was designed with the defense industry in mind, companies in other industries can benefit significantly from participation. This initiative is led by the United States Department of Commerce's Bureau of Export Administration. It is an outgrowth of a pilot program initiated in 1994 to assist defense-dependent companies in California diversify into new commercial or international markets. Over 1,100 individuals attended these programs last year. February 15, 1995: The U.S. Department of Commerce's BXA West 1995 Resource Matching Program will offer an ``Intellectual Property Rights, Patents and Trade Secrets'' Workshop. This workshop will offer small to medium sized companies, and individual inventors and inventor organizations information regarding intellectual property protection and the impact it can have on promoting innovation and trade featuring Patent Attorneys from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Washington, D.C. Location: Newport Beach Central Library, 1000 Avacado Avenue, Newport Beach, California. Time: 8:30am to 1:00pm. Cost: $25. Contact: Margaret Wright at (714) 660-1960 Extension 110 for registration information.

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