Earlier this summer, the U.S. Supreme Court made it easier for patent holders to seek larger damage awards when their patents are infringed. For patent watchers, however, the high court’s ruling was only just the latest in a particularly active… Read More »
Unless women are somehow only 25 percent as creative as men these days, we have a big problem with our so-called “innovation age.” In one clear measure of who takes the credit for scientific inventions, male inventors… Read More »
Although women have more than quintupled their representation among patent holders since 1977, a pronounced patent gender gap remains. In 2010, according to a new briefing paper by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), fewer than one in… Read More »
Like the wage and leadership gap, the patent gap highlights the lack of resources women have once they’re in the workplace. Another day, another sobering statistic about the gender gap in the workplace. Although women have more… Read More »
New Hampshire Republican Kelly Ayotte has been a consistent defender of intellectual property rights since her election to the Senate in 2010. Ayotte has appeared and worked with a wide range of small-business and inventors’ groups, including… Read More »
Lisa Seacat DeLuca is the most prolific inventor in IBM history. She also happens to be a woman, a detail that’s notable perhaps only because of the outsized number of men who hold patents in the United… Read More »
Just 8% of primary patent-holders are women. Where are all the female inventors? According to a new analysis by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, women held fewer than one in five patents in 2010. And the… Read More »
While women own more than a third of all businesses in the U.S., companies run by them get only about 3 percent of venture capital funding. Is that one more example of sexism in Silicon Valley? Maybe… Read More »
For more information, contact Jennifer Clark 202-683-6855 | clark@iwpr.org Jul 21, 2016 Washington, DC—Although women have more than quintupled their representation among patent holders since 1977, fewer than one in five of all patents had at least… Read More »
Around age 30, San Diego native and EllipitGo co-founder Bryan Pate found his body suddenly rebelling against nearly three decades of competitive sports and participation in endurance races, including the Ironman and other triathlons. He also had… Read More »
