Call for Nominees for 2007 National Inventor of the Year
The iBridge Network is more than pleased to help spread the word about one of the most important awards for innovators in the United States.
The award is the 34th Annual National Inventor of the Year Award to be presented June 11, 2007 by the Intellectual Property Owners Education Foundation (IPO Foundation).
The IPO Foundation currently is asking for nominations for candidates to win this prestigious award. The deadline to submit nominations is April 20, 2007. So who’s eligible (especially if you’re immediately ready to nominate a colleague or even yourself)? An inventor is eligible, according to the IPO Foundation, if the invention “originated in the U.S.,” is covered by a U.S. patent, and was patented since 2003 or recently commercialized.
And if you’re curious about criteria for judging nominees, they include concept originality, ingenuity in designing the concept, and societal benefit.
For direct and easy-to-read directions on submitting a nomination, visit the IPO Foundation nomination home page. Note that anyone can be nominated and you can nominate yourself (as noted above).
You can read about all of the past awardees on the IPO Foundation site, but the list includes inventors from a cross-section of industries including biomedicine, chemicals, advanced manufacturing, and pharmaceuticals.
