PIUG 2023 - MONDAY

M O N D A Y M O R N I N G

The Green Perspective Devin Salmon (IFI Claims Patent Services) 9:30 – 10:00 am

ABSTRACT As pressure to achieve net zero mounts, businesses have been pledging resources and promising behav ior modifications to reduce the carbon footprint of their goods and services. Their public proclamations are encouraging. But how can stakeholders gauge whether companies are putting some of their revenue where their rhetoric is on the sustainability front? One way: tracking green patents. In this presentation, IFI CLAIMS’ Devin Salmon will discuss how green patents can be used to measure whether a company meets sustainable development and corporate governance goals or makes the grade for ESG investments. A case study, done in partnership with IALE Tecnología, on earth drilling and renewable energy patent applica tions in the U.S. offers a compelling demonstration for how such an analysis can be structured.

BIOGRAPHY Devin Salmon is currently a Product Manager at IFI CLAIMS. Devin has a BS in Mechanical Engineering fromWorcester Polytechnic Institute. She began her career at the USPTO as an examiner, followed by a short stint as an Applications Engineer working for a small microfluidics company. In 2014, she joined IP.com as a Patent Analyst delivering novelty, FTO, and landscape studies for commercial clients. While at IP.com she was also a Client Success Manager and served as the “Voice of the Customer” for the de velopment and content teams. Equipped with this experience, she realized a key component of im proving patent tools is to work fromwithin the tool providers. She has also served as a guest lecturer on patent information usage for university students, ran patent search basics training workshops, and spoke to a variety of audiences about leveraging AI for patent information users.

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