AUGUSTA – A seminar hosted by the Maine Patent Program of the University of Maine School of Law will be held Friday, June 6, at the Senator Inn on Western Avenue.

Building a Technology-Based Business: Patents, Business Planning & Product Commercialization will run from 9 a.m. to noon.

The seminar will feature Elizabeth Worley, patent attorney and fellow with the Maine Patent Program; Meriby Sweet, business counselor with the Maine Small Business Development Center; and John Karp, program manager with the Maine Manufacturing Extension Partnership.

The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required by June 4. Contact Carla Yount, administrative manager at the Maine Patent Program, at 207-874-6521 or e-mail: cyount@usm.maine.edu.

For more information and directions visit www.mainepatent.org.