New Seminar Series on the Intellectual Property Gender Gap

October 6, 2021

WIPO – in collaboration with Invent Together – is organizing a series of online seminars with intellectual property (IP) offices and innovation stakeholders on the IP gender gap in different regions across the world.

The first seminars in the series will focus on the Americas, and take place on October 13-14, 2021.

The virtual seminar series on the IP gender gap will bring together stakeholders in the innovation ecosystem, with the goal to raise awareness, evaluate it quantitatively and qualitatively, and discuss policies and other actions that show promise in addressing it.

Panel I: High-level policy panel on the IP gender gap in the Americas region

This first panel will bring together policymakers from the Americas region to discuss the importance of designing policies to address the IP gender gap, and engaging women’s participation in the innovation ecosystem.

Date and time: October 13, 2021 – 5.30 p.m. Geneva time (CEST)

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Panel II: IP economists panel on challenges of measuring and analyzing the gender gap in the IP system of the Americas region

This second panel will highlight approaches and methodologies employed by the Chief Economists’ departments across the IP Offices, including from Canada, Chile, the United Kingdom and the United States – discuss the challenges in measuring and analyzing the IP gender gap.

Date and time: October 14, 2021 – 5.00 p.m. Geneva time (CEST)

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