At the UNCF UNITE Summit for Black Higher Education, Michelson 20MM’s Michelson Institute for Intellectual Property (MIIP) and Michelson Medical Research Foundation (MMRF) hosted a panel on the importance of supporting intellectual property education and policies at...
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UNCF UNITE Summit: Experts Call for Greater Investment in HBCU Research to Advance Health Equity
The UNCF UNITE Summit for Black Higher Education, held last month in Atlanta, was the epicenter of discussions on the future of education and research at historically Black institutions. The summit promotes accelerating strategies for Black higher education and...
The Important Role of Intellectual Property Laws
By Michelson Institute for Intellectual Property (Originally published on michelsonip.com) A Day without IP Laws? We asked ChatGPT to help us out with this question and here’s what they came up with: If the United States didn’t have intellectual property laws, it...
Highlights from the UNCF Summit for Black Higher Education
By Chinwe Ohanele, Michelson Institute for Intellectual Property (Originally published on michelsonip.com) The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) Unite was an incredible conference running from July 17 through July 20 in Atlanta Georgia that brought together...
The Battle for the Taco Tuesday Trademark Ends
By Rachelle Mulumba, Michelson Institute for Intellectual Property (Originally published on michelsonip.com) It seems the fight to “free” the Taco Tuesday trademark has officially come to an end with Taco John’s, the fast food chain and original rights holders,...
How Michelson IP Elevates Student Success in Community Colleges
By Rachelle Mulumba, Michelson Institute for Intellectual Property (Originally published on michelsonip.com) Quotes in the article have been lightly edited and paraphrased for clarity. “I remember during my first semester teaching, a student came up to me and...
The Value of Teaching IP at Community Colleges
2022 Michelson IP Educator awardees highlight the value of teaching IP at community colleges. By Justin Chapman The Michelson Institute for Intellectual Property is expanding its support of infusing IP education into a broad range of educational curricula. At...
Philanthropist and Inventor Dr. Gary K. Michelson Receives IP Champion Award
By Justin Chapman The Intellectual Property Owners Education Foundation (IPOEF) awarded its 2022 IP Champion honor to Dr. Gary K. Michelson, a board certified orthopedic spinal surgeon, inventor, and founder of the Michelson Philanthropies network of...
How the Michelson Institute for Intellectual Property Makes IP Education Accessible to All
The Michelson Institute for Intellectual Property (Michelson IP) is a non-profit initiative that provides access to IP education to support budding inventors and entrepreneurs – no matter where they are in their journey. To learn more, visit MichelsonIP.com.
Putting the ‘Fast’ Back in Fast Food
South Carolina State University student De’Marco Poole used what he learned from the HBCU IP Futures Collaborative, a program by the Los Angeles-based Michelson Institute for Intellectual Property, to apply for a patent for his automated food preparation invention....
Dr. Michelson: To Be a Successful Inventor, Deconstruct the Status Quo
The DaVinci Hour's Episode 32 podcast with Dr. Maxwell Cooper features Dr. Gary Michelson discussing his physician-inventor career, funding early-career scientific investigators, and a new center for immunology research in California. In this DaVinci Innovators+...
Lighting a Fire: Faculty at Historically Black Colleges and Universities are Exposing Eager Students to IP Fundamentals
This article was featured as the August 2022 cover story in Inventors Digest Magazine. Click here to view the full magazine cover and story. By Justin Chapman (Originally published on michelsonip.com) A South Carolina State University student created a way to...