IP Futures is an IP Inclusive Community for early career stage IP professionals. It’s intended to offer networking and support for people in their first 5 or 6 years or so as IP professionals, in all IP-related roles including, for example, paralegals and formalities officers, secretaries, patent office examiners, searchers and information scientists, IP managers, IP solicitors and barristers, and patent and trade mark attorneys.
We held our formal launch event on 12 September 2019. In it, we discussed some of the results of our initial survey (see below), which had gathered data on social mobility and inclusivity to help inform our future work. Keep an eye out for more definite plans as the community grows.
If you’re interested in being involved with IP Futures, please drop us an email, join our LinkedIn group or check out our LinkedIn profile page.
If you are in your first 6 years in the IP professions ***in any role***, IP Futures want to hear from you. The is a re-issue of a survey first run in 2019, in order to ascertain what changes have taken place. If you have time to help them out, please do! Click here to complete the survey.
To receive updates about our activities and events, you can sign up to the IP Inclusive mailing list here and select IP Futures as one of your communities of interest. (Please note that if you’re already signed up to one of our mailing lists, when you submit the form you will be asked to “update your preferences”.)
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