In the US, women represent over 50% of the workforce and 27% of STEM workers, but only 13% of inventors. A growing number of companies, law firms, academics, and agencies are actively experimenting with ways to narrow these and other innovator-inventor gaps* in participation. Join us for a kick-off conference, co-organized with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), focused on these “innovator diversity pilot” projects and effective practices to increase participation in innovation.
Conference participants will:
- Learn from and share with peers and others practices for increasing diversity and inclusion in invention and innovation and evidence of their effectiveness;
- Hear from leading academics and the USPTO about how to run pilots using best practices as documented by the IPO Diversity Toolkit and High Tech Law Institute’s Best Practices in Diversity Guide to quantify their impact;
- Join a community of leaders exploring novel ways to increase the participation of women and underrepresented groups in innovation and inventing.
Details:
November 18, 2022, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., Santa Clara University Benson Center and Online
Featured Speakers:
- Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
- John List, Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Professor in Economics, University of Chicago and author of The Voltage Effect
Organizers and Keynote speakers, from left: Margo Bagley, Colleen Chien, Kathi Vidal, Valencia Martin Wallace, John List
Organized by: Professors Colleen Chien (Santa Clara University Law School), Margo Bagley (Emory University School of Law) and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
*The Gender Innovator-Inventor Gap (from Chien, Redefining Progress and the Case for Diversity in Innovation and Inventing)
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References:
- USPTO Inclusive Innovation
- Progress and Potential 2020 Update
- Increasing Diversity in Innovation Pledge
- IPO Diversity in IP Toolkit
- Santa Clara Diversity in Innovation Best Practices Guide
- Patent Pipeline Program
- Rigorous Policy Pilots the USPTO Could Try
- Redefining Progress and the Case for Diversity in Innovation and Inventing
- Additional Resources and Writings
Special thanks to the organizing committee:
- Valencia Martin Wallace, Deputy Commissioner for Patents at the USPTO
- Patricia Bianco, Executive Secretary, USPTO’s Council for Inclusive Innovation (CI2)
- Dr. Andrew Toole, Chief Economist at the USPTO
- Suzanne Harrison, US IP Alliance (USIPA) Board Member and Founder, Percipience LLP
- Sandra Nowak, Assistant Chief IP Counsel at 3M and Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO)
- Jeremiah Chan, Director and Associate General Counsel, Meta
- Joy Peacock, Managing Director, Tech Edge JD and Privacy Law Initiative, Santa Clara Law
- Joanna Padua, Managing Director, High Tech Law Institute
- Maleeha Syeda, 3L, Santa Clara Law
Academic Conference Attendees
- Abhay Aneja, Berkeley Law
- Amy Motomura, Loyola Law School
- Anjali Vats, University of Pittsburgh School of Law
- Ann Bartow, University of New Hampshire School of Law
- Brian Love, Santa Clara University School of Law
- Colleen Chien, Santa Clara University School of Law
- Deborah Gerhardt, University of North Carolina School of Law
- Elodie Carpentier, WIPO
- Heidi Williams, Stanford Law School
- Jason Rantanen, University of Iowa College of Law
- Jillian Grennan, Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business
- Jordi Goodman, Boston University School of Law and MIT
- Joshua Kresh, George Mason University, Antonin Scalia Law School
- Kara Swanson, Northeastern University School of Law
- Keith Robinson, Wake Forest University School of Law
- Lateef Mtima, Howard University School of Law
- Lisa Ouellette, Stanford Law School
- Margo Bagley, Emory University School of Law
- Michael Schuster, University of Georgia School of Law
- Miriam Marcowitz-Bitton, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
- Neel Sukhatme, Georgetown Law School
- Orit Fischman Afori, College of Management, Israel
- Paul R. Gugliuzza, Temple University Beasley School of Law
- Rachel Rebouché, Temple University Beasley School of Law
- Ron Lazebnik, Fordham University School of Law
- Ruth Okediji, Harvard Law School
- Sean Tu, West Virginia University School of Law
- Sharon Bar-Ziv, Sapir Academic College, Israel
- Stefania Fusco, Notre Dame Law School
Questions about the Conference? Contact: htli@scu.edu