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Original air date:  February 24, 2016.  WORKING WITH INVENTORS:  IP EDUCATION, INCENTIVE & HARVESTING PROGRAMS.  A presentation from AIPLA's Front & Center Discussion Series.

How to educate inventors and encourage them to protect the intellectual property they create.  Our panel will address this question from in-house, outside counsel, and academic-institution perspectives.  Topics will include:  IP 101 for inventors; Patent incentive programs – variations and their pros and cons; Invention harvesting within established organizations – systemic approaches and techniques; Use of outside counsel vs. in-house counsel for inventor education and harvesting; Brainstorming sessions and their effectiveness; Promoting management buy-in to the need for IP protection; Approaches for the startup organization, the established organization, and academic institutions.  Presented by:  Alexander Franco (moderator), Patent GC; Angela Grayson, Walmart; William Powell, III, Entegris, Inc.; Karen Sinclair, Harvard University Office of Technology Development.  No CLE available.