Women and IP: Accelerating Innovation and Creativity

World Intellectual Property (IP) Day is celebrated on April 26 around the world to highlight the role that IP rights – such as patents, trademarks, industrial designs, and copyrights – play in encouraging innovation and creativity. This year, we’re bringing awareness to gender parity in this space by celebrating the groundbreaking work of Corning women around the world.

What is Intellectual Property?

Intellectual property refers to creations of the mind, such as inventions, literary and artistic works, designs, symbols, names, and images used in commerce. IP is legally protected by patents, copyrights, and trademarks, and these protections enable creators to earn recognition or financial benefit from what their inventions and ideas.

The IP system fosters an environment in which creativity and innovation can flourish. Corning’s IP system recognizes and rewards our inventors, scientists, engineers, and creators for their work and ensures our customers and society benefit from their creativity and ingenuity. 

Why celebrate women on World IP Day?

This year’s World IP Day theme, “Women and IP: Accelerating Innovation & Creativity” celebrates trailblazing women around the world while raising awareness of gender parity in this space. Corning is proud to join the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) this World IP Day to celebrate the groundbreaking work of women in intellectual property (IP) and to promote inclusion and diversity in all areas of the IP system.

Learn more about Corning women who work with IP to protect our innovations.

 

Katherine Rossington - Director, Materials, Melting & Mineralogy, MT&E

“We can inspire more women to invent by bringing STEM into schools and showing the girls of today the women who are innovating and inventing at Corning. Seeing someone who looks like them is important.”

 

Dawne Moffatt-Fairbanks - Director, Thermal & Materials Engineering and Chemical & Surface Engineering, MT&E

“Creating IP accelerates our business growth. Even if it is IP that can’t easily be shared in a patent, the creation of trade secrets enables the continued innovation for the company.  Using the information documented in technical reports helps a scientist or engineer understand what has been done in the past and allows this work to be applied to new innovations.”

Ekaterina (Katia) Kuksenkova - Manager, IP, Intellectual Asset Management, S&T/MT&E

“If we want to inspire women, we need to continue to encourage exploration, curiosity, and even ‘mistakes’.”

Julie Daugherty - Engineering Associate, Senior Process Project Leader, MT&E

“Understanding IP is important to innovation – understanding prior art defines the technology space you can practice in as well as opening ideas to solutions. Documenting and filing IP is an important final step of innovation – to be able to protect both the technology and longevity of the business."

Dianna Green - Senior IP Paralegal – Display Technologies

“I feel we could inspire more women to invent here at Corning by getting as much information out as possible, especially to schools, so that our young people are aware of what possibilities are out there and that women are a major part of inventing.”

Svetlana Short - Senior managing IP Counsel, S&T/MT&E

“Working as a Patent Portfolio Manager and IP attorney I have the opportunity to work with world class innovators and learn about many interesting research and development projects within the company. I work with many scientists, project leaders,  and engineers to help them in their innovation process and with protection of their IP.”

Meghan Wallace - IP Paralegal III, S&T

“Continuing to empower and advocate will pave the way for women in innovation at Corning.”