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.

Slides:

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.

Slides:

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

There is a parable in the Bible called “The Parable of the Sower”. The parable describes a “sower”, who casts seeds into various places. Some take root and others don’t. What causes some to flourish while others fail to grow is not the seeds themselves, but the ground upon which they fall. […]

Full article available here.

Authors: Deb Liu

Published by Substack

Lenovo’s IP team is conducting a data-driven deep-dive into inventorship as part of the company’s diversity and inclusion (D&I) focus. It’s not just the right thing to do, IP head John Mulgrew says — it will also help bolster the quality of the company’s portfolio.

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Authors: Jacob Schindler

Originally published on IAM Media.