Fostering Innovation in Underrepresented Groups

This webinar will help explain the goals of the USPTO SUCCESS Act, the IDEA Act bill, and other government activities centered around diversity in patents. We will give a history of inventorship by women and minorities, including the USPTO's SUCCESS Act Report and Progress and Potential report, WIPO's report on women inventorship, and provide an understanding the year 1899 for African-American inventorship. We will also review the findings of several key reports to better understand the reasons for gender and minority gaps in patent ownership. Finally, we will discuss how the federal government signed the SUCCESS Act into law on October 31, 2018 upon recognizing these significant gaps. Q&A will follow.