What is a patent? How do you file for a patent? Who should file a patent? Well on today's show the head of the US Southwest patent office. Hope Shimabuku answers all of these questions while also sharing why 60% of

America's new jobs are being created in the great state of Texas. All this and more on this edition of the Thrive Time show on your radio and

podcast download. Some shows don't need a celebrity narrator to introduce the show, but this show does.

Two men. Eight kids, co-created by two different women, 13 multimillion dollar businesses.

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We started from the bottom and we'll show you how to get here.

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Thrive Nation on today's show we have the pleasure of interviewing the first ever head of the woman in charge of opening

the first ever patent office in the southwest.

Miss Hope, welcome on to the Thrive Time show.

How are you?

Good, good. Thanks, Clay, and I am super excited to be here. Thank you for having me.

I gotta ask you, how did you get put in charge of heading up the first ever patent office in the southwest

of United States? Well that's a really good question. So our office was actually opened in November of 2015 and it was one of

four regional offices across the country and so when they were looking to put an office

in the Dallas area, I became very interested

in this particular role.

And so I applied and got accepted and so here I am.

So what's your title?

Are you the head honchow, the Grand Pouba?

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