The word you claim shapes the work you protect.
Founders protect valuations.
Inventors protect the thing itself — even when it costs them growth, funding, and comfort.

The word you claim shapes the work you protect.
Founders protect valuations.
Inventors protect the thing itself — even when it costs them growth, funding, and comfort.
📆 Hear from two women #inventors -- Lisa Lloyd and Christine Sanni -- at the #USPTO's upcoming Women's Equality Day event.
On September 15 from 1-2 PM ET, the free virtual program will recognize the generations of #women whose ideas have shaped America's #innovation ecosystem.
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"#Women are still significantly underrepresented in the global #innovation system.
While the share of #patents with women filers has increased slightly in recent years, only 13% of #inventors receiving patents in 2019 were women."
📝 C4IP Board Member & former Federal Judge Kathleen O'Malley
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A patent can protect an invention.
It cannot guarantee that the invention will sell.
Most invention ideas do not reach commercial success — and that doesn't mean inventors shouldn't pursue them.
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"Strong, reliable IP rights ... give #inventors, #entrepreneurs, creators, and #investors the confidence to take risks, attract capital, and turn new ideas into new companies, #technologies, and #jobs."
- C4IP President and CEO Coke Morgan Stewart
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