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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">From: </span></b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Karen Baird <<a href="mailto:kshaner@mit.edu">kshaner@mit.edu</a>></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Subject:MIT and USPTO: Expanding American Innovation</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Date: </span></b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">December 1, 2020 at 8:35:45 AM EST</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I hope you all had a wonderful and restful Thanksgiving break.<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m writing to ask if you may be willing to share an event your students? I’m attaching some images that may be used for social media and/or a calendar post as well if anyone would like to utilize other channels. Thanks in advance!<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121">MIT and USPTO: Expanding American Innovation</span></i></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121">A panel discussion with the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property & USPTO Director</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121">Friday, December 11, 2020</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121">Join members of MIT Innovation and Entrepreneurship Community—inventors, entrepreneurs, founders—in a panel discussion with Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property
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How the National Council for Expanding American Innovation (NCEAI) is creating a more inclusive invention/innovation ecosystem<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:#212121;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
MIT’s position in supporting the innovation ecosystem—on campus and beyond<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:#212121;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
The importance of university innovation and its impact on US patents and competitiveness<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121">Moderator: <a href="https://lmrt.mit.edu/about" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0563C1">Sangeeta Bhatia</span></a>—John J. and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Engineering; Director, Laboratory
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121">Panelists: <a href="https://lemelson.mit.edu/award-winners/shriya-srinivasan" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0563C1">Shriya Srinivasan</span></a>, 2020 Lemelson-MIT Graduate Student Prize
Winner and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/newshaghaeli/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0563C1">Newsha Ghaeli</span></a>, President and Cofounder of Biobot Analytics, and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/elise-strobach/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0563C1">Elise
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