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Speakers - JiNan Glasgow, Founder/CEO, NeoPatents (North Carolina)
Creating commercially valuable assets from ideas through intellectual property and entrepreneurial activity is the number one way to impact the economy and improve the quality of life for citizens in any country. Patents and trademarks are the most highly valued intellectual property types – anyone can leverage the value if they know how to do it right. Strategic development requires answers, not just data, to inform investment and business decision-making. JiNan Glasgow has built her career from engineering to patent law and investment by finding non-conventional approaches, streamlining the path, and creatively using resources to provide answers. She supports large companies and entrepreneurs alike in using intellectual property for creating economic value and sustainable development. She believes that everyone has the power to create – and her work globally has focused on transforming ideas into reality and creating positive impact from them.
JiNan Glasgow is the founder and CEO of Neopatents, a patent research and analytics company providing consulting services and software worldwide from the headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina USA (www.neopatents.com ). She is the inventor of patent claims diagramming innovations (Patent Matrix software) and the co-inventor of proprietary patent mapping tools for analyzing patents across all technology fields – and using visuals that help communicate complex information about patent sectors.
A Patent Attorney and former Patent Examiner with the US Patent & Trademark Office, JiNan has been an IP practitioner with experience across a wide range of technology fields, serving clients in the US and internationally. She is a registered patent attorney with the North Carolina Bar and the USPTO; she is a founding partner of Triangle Patents, PLLC in Raleigh, NC, USA. She has worked with clients from the US, Canada, Europe, India, Nigeria, Ghana, and Kenya for development of intellectual property rights including patents, trademarks, and copyrights for licensing and commercialization globally.
Since late 2008, JiNan has been supporting the work of His Majesty Drolor Bosso Adamtey I of Ghana, driving a core team for African Technology Group – leading the planning and implementation of the largest technology & science park in Africa, which will break ground in Ghana in 2009. She has developed a Patent Free Zone model – applicable in most developing countries to leverage the world’s most cutting edge research & technology for commercial acceleration of in-country development, while providing an unparalleled opportunity to innovate in ways that are impossible in the US, Europe, Japan, and even China or India. She spoke about Intellectual Property and Government Policy and about entrepreneurial innovation at the African Technology Conference 2008, which was held in Accra, Ghana in July 2008.
Between 2007-08, JiNan served Africa Development Corp. and ADC Energy Corp. as legal counsel in support of its investments in economic development in Ghana, Kenya, and Mozambique. In early 2008, while working with ADC/ADC Energy, she was invited to participate in Pres. and Mrs. Carter’s Winter Weekend, in support of the Carter Center and its work in Africa and worldwide. She will be participating in the African Technology Conference 2008 in mid-July in Accra, Ghana; she will be speaking on intellectual property policy and its role from both a business and government perspective.
JiNan has spoken at a joint US/INDO Science and Technology Forum at the invitation of the US and Indian governments; she also was invited to speak to a meeting of the directors of the national research labs of India’s Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. Also, internationally, for more than three years she participated with the United Nations/Economic Commission for Europe (UN/ECE) Intellectual Property Advisory Group and High Level Task Force on IP, which addresses technology applications, issues, and solutions relating to intellectual property, in particular relating to accelerating development and improving the quality of life for citizens in transitioning economies in Eastern Europe through innovation, patent protection & enforcement in the private sector and supported by government policy and global harmonization.
In the US, she is a member of the American of Intellectual Property Law Association, American Bar Association, North Carolina Bar Association, Triangle Intellectual Property Law Association, Council for Entrepreneurial Development, a current member & past 2-term President of the Raleigh chapter of the global Entrepreneurs Organization.
JiNan’s background includes mechanical, chemical and electrical engineering, polymer fiber science, biomedical devices, surgical/dental devices and applications, fiber optics, software, and pulp/paper science; her educational background includes degrees in engineering, law and theology from NC State University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Duke University, respectively.
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