Eliminating Bias: Inclusivity Metrics for Innovation in the Legal Profession and Beyond
About
This Course
As a lawyer, you have an obligation to work on eliminating bias through inclusion and bias reducing strategies. At times, in the legal profession, an ostensibly neutral process can have inequitable outcomes that unconsciously discriminate. In this seminar, we will cover new efforts to help attorneys enhance their patent programs and their invention pipelines.
Are you interested in assisting your clients with creating a robust idea pipeline for their inventorship process? How about ensuring that there is no unconscious bias in the patenting processes? Finally, how about creating an inclusivity metric for innovation and inventorship for your clients? If so, attending this course will benefit you greatly.
Hear how leading companies have revitalized their inventorship processes, leading to increased value for their organizations and clients. Learn how to create and measure inclusivity in your innovation and inventorship processes for your clients.
In-house and outside counsel, and lawyers from all levels of experience are encouraged to attend this program.
Learning Objectives:
- Relate the importance of data to the revitalization of your client’s inventorship process
- Acquire your own company data
- Create or kickstart metric inclusivity
- Investigate how to lead this effort from Legal
- Interpret data to lead to actionable goals and objectives
About the Presenters
Suzanne Harrison
Percipience, LLC
Practice Area: Other
Suzanne S. Harrison is an author, patent futurist, and economist. She works with companies both large and small to help them utilize their patent data to make more informed decisions and realize the true value of their intellectual property. Her specialties are quantifying legal risk, forecasting patent trends, increasing diversity in innovation and helping companies place IP bets now to ensure access to innovation and markets in the future. She is a Founder and Principal of Percipience LLC, a board-level advisory group focused on IP and innovation strategy, management, and quantifying and mitigating IP risk. Since 1995, she has led a group ...
View DetailsJeremiah Chan, Esq.
Meta
Practice Area: Other
Jeremiah Chan is Head of Patents, Licensing and Open Source at Meta. He and his team are responsible for the development of Meta’s worldwide patent portfolio, intellectual property transactions, open source, dispute resolution, risk mitigation initiatives, as well as industry-wide efforts to promote greater diversity, equity, and inclusion in innovation and the IP profession. Meta’s approach to patents and innovation is described in this blog post. Jeremiah is also a member of the USPTO’s Patent Public Advisory Committee (PPAC), where he has served on subcommittees for artificial intelligence and innovation expansion.Prior to joining Meta, Jeremiah led an international team at ...
View DetailsJohn Mulgrew, Esq.
Lenovo
Practice Area: Intellectual Property
John Mulgrew joined Lenovo as the Chief Patent Counsel in December 2019. Previously, he led the IP team at Uber Technologies Inc. During his tenure, Uber was one of the most active operating companies to accelerate growth of its portfolio through acquisition. In 2017 the team launched Uber’s UP3 Patent Purchase Programme while directly engaging with prospective sellers to acquire over 200 assets in more than 15 transactions. Uber’s IP team was also recognised by the Licensing Executives Society with the 2017 Deal of Distinction award for its patent purchase from AT&T.Before joining Uber, Mr Mulgrew was a partner at ...
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