A discussion of the latest research on biases and obstacles keeping women in out of inventorship and how copmanies and academia can eliminate them. With Elyse Shaw, IWPR.

This is from a session at the 2021 Increasing Diversity in Innovation conference that took place on July 26-29, 2021. The conference was hosted by UC Berkeley Fung Institute and USIPA.

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Reaching Diverse Inventors Using Brainstorm Techniques panel with:

Saadia Saifuddin
IP Analytics and Strategy, Cisco

Ahsan Shaikh
Head of Patent Prosecution, McDermott Will & Emery

Michelle Martinez
Senior Patent and Open Source Counsel, eBay

This is from a session at the 2021 Increasing Diversity in Innovation conference that took place on July 26-29, 2021. The conference was hosted by UC Berkeley Fung Institute and USIPA.

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Data – Lessons learned from the front lines on how to establish your baseline, how to analyze your data for anomalies and/or bias and where to focus your first efforts.

Panel with:


Robert Pechman
Chief IP Counsel, Seagate Technology LLC

Jason Friday
Senior Counsel, Intellectual Property, Lenovo

Justin Cook
Associate General Counsel, IP, The Nielsen Company

Jeff Tang
VP, Intellectual Property, BlackRock

This is from a session at the 2021 Increasing Diversity in Innovation conference that took place on July 26-29, 2021. The conference was hosted by UC Berkeley Fung Institute and USIPA.

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Research – “Mapping the Regions, Organizations and Individuals that Drive Inclusion in the Innovation Economy” with Mercedes Delgado.

This is from a session at the 2021 Increasing Diversity in Innovation conference that took place on July 26-29, 2021. The conference was hosted by UC Berkeley Fung Institute and USIPA.

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How can companies easily get their baseline data? Panel with:

Erik Oliver
Partner, Richardson Oliver Law Group

David Andrews
Chief Data and Analytics Officer, IP Solutions, Aon

Samantha Hsu
Senior Counsel, IP, Uber Technologies, Inc.

This is from a session at the 2021 Increasing Diversity in Innovation conference that took place on July 26-29, 2021. The conference was hosted by UC Berkeley Fung Institute and USIPA.

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Behavioral insights from employee feedback can help organizations identify and drive new, data-informed priorities.

Pervading nearly every facet of our personal and professional lives, the impact of COVID-19 is made worse by the fact that there is no playbook for companies and their leaders to follow, including leaders who have successfully navigated quick and crashing waters in the past. Seemingly overnight, employers had to direct their workforces to work remotely as governments imposed widespread lockdowns. […]

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Authors: Paola Cecchi-Dimeglio

Originally published by MIT Sloan Management Review

Photo credit: https://www.paolacecchidimeglio.com

Marketing algorithms prevent many women from seeing the advertising, even though it’s illegal to target jobs to one gender.

Women see fewer advertisements about entering into science and technology professions than men do. But it’s not because companies are preferentially targeting men—rather it appears to result from the economics of ad sales. […]

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Authors: Dina Fine Maron

Originally published on Scientific American.

Photo credit: Getty Images as posted on the Scientific American website.