Event Session
Capturing Innovation: Best Practices for Invention Harvesting and Management *
September 30, 2024 @ 10:30 AM EST – Harness IP Ballroom
10:30 AM ET
September 30, 2024
Capturing Innovation: Best Practices for Invention Harvesting and Management *
Technology companies large and small employ creative individuals to develop new inventions. Many utilize formal processes to document and protect inventions that are conceived during technology and product development projects and align closely with core products and services, whether through seeking patent protection or by documenting and keeping trade secrets. While many companies are aware of the potential benefits of invention harvesting, unless they take concrete steps to support and nurture invention harvesting programs are taken their aspirations are likely to bear limited fruit. This panel will address various approaches to invention capture and management.
Materials
- Meeting Marvels: The Value and Necessity of Invention Disclosure Meetings
- Pitching Patents: Selling Engineers on Education
- Invention Harvesting: Best Practices for Turning Aspiration into Action
Survey
Technology companies large and small employ creative individuals to develop new inventions. Many utilize formal processes to document and protect inventions that are conceived during technology and product development projects and align closely with core products and services, whether through seeking patent protection or by documenting and keeping trade secrets. While many companies are aware of the potential benefits of…
