Videos from IPAS 2023 are Now Available + Kara Miller’s Keynote, ‘Inventing the Future’

Videos of the five panels and keynote from the 2023 Intellectual Property Awareness Summit – including Andrei Iancu’s compelling analysis of the power of IP rights – are now available for viewing.

One video includes takeaways from a survey conducted by a team of independent researchers for the U.S. IP Alliance of what 1,000 Americans know and believe about IP rights.

The keynote presentation by Kara Miller, founding host of public radio’s ‘Innovation Hub,’ and five panels from the IPAS 2023 (listed below) held in Boston, are now uploaded to CIPU’s YouTube channel and available for viewing.

The 6th annual IP Awareness Summit, IPAS 2023, was held in conjunction with the Center for Research Innovation at Northeastern University on May 2. More than 120 creators, educators, lawyers and investors attended in-person and online, including from the UK, Germany, India and Argentina.

Go here to access the YouTube channel for the Center for Intellectual Property.

“Inventing the Future: Reaching a New Generation of Inventors,“ Kara Millers’ keynote can be found there, as well as the panels and speakers below.

IP Awareness Survey: What 1,000 Americans believe about IP

Speakers:

Elizabeth Dougherty (USPTO, Dir of East Coast Outreach)

Dan Brown (LoggerHead Tools; Member of USPTO PPAC; inventor and entrepreneur)

Manny Schecter(Chief Patent Counsel, IBM; Past President, IPO Education Foundation)

Stephanie Couch (Executive Director, Lemelson MIT Program

for Invention Education)

“Patents and other IP are the currency innovation. They allow the trade in that innovation and exchange of ideas and collaboration.”

The Innovation Race: IP and U.S. global leadership, China and beyond

Speakers:

Adam Mossoff (George Mason U. School of Law; Hudson Institute)

Andrei Iancu (USPTO Director, 2017-2021; co-founder Council for Innovation Promotion

Kendalle Burlin O’Connell (CEO, MassBio)

Patrick Kilbride (SVP, Global Innovation Policy Center, U.S. Chamber of Commerce)

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At 32:50 – 35:30 of the panel above: “What most people don’t understand is that patents incentivize the commercialization of innovation, bringing it to market,” said former USPTO Director Andrei Iancu, a senior partner at Irell & Manella. “Patents and other IP are the currency innovation. They allow for trade in that innovation and exchange of ideas and collaboration.”