Thursday, June 25, 2020
11am-12:30pm Pacific Time
VIRTUAL MEETUP
”How Are Companies Driving Innovation in Turbulent Times”
Grab a coffee, turn on your camera, and join us! Innovation is a company’s lifeblood, yet it can be difficult to motivate inventors and create a smooth innovation process. We will discuss how different companies are incentivizing their inventors, capturing inventions, and creating a smooth process that promotes rather than hinders innovation as we make our way through turbulent times.
How to keep in touch with your engineers and inventors as we work from home?
How to incentivize and generate invention disclosures during Covid-19?
How have patent review committees been operating? Is it better to have everyone in the same room vs. dialing in?
How can we increase diversity in inventorship and expand American innovation during and after Covid-19?
Are there any practices that we can/should continue even after work returns to “normal”?
Speakers:
ARCHANA BHUTA
Head of IP, Assoc. General Counsel
SRI International
CHARU KURANI
Associate General Counsel, Patents
Facebook
DAVID FOSTER
Principal Attorney, Patent Attorney
The Walt Disney Company, ESPN
MEHUL SHAH
Senior IP & Patent Counsel
Juniper Networks
BRAD HULBERT
Partner
McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff
JUSTIN ZAHRT
Asst. Director, IP
Stanford University Office of Tech Licensing
ELIZABETH MORRIS
Assistant GC & Director of IP
KLA-Tencor
EMILY COLLINS
Patent Attorney
Kilburn & Strode