You are invited to a closed-door, virtual discussion on 1 June 2023, co-hosted by Invent Together and WIPO. The exchange will focus on emerging best practices for tackling patent diversity gaps at the organization level. Companies and tech transfer offices (TTOs) from the Africa and Arab regions are invited to join this discussion, which will also include participants from earlier closed-door meetings co-hosted by Invent Together and WIPO for stakeholders in the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe. Insights from the closed-door meetings are being leveraged to create brief, simple guidance documents that will be posted on the WIPO website in 2023. The guidance provides ideas for tackling the challenges that came up most frequently during the first closed-door discussions. During the discussion we will seek your feedback on the draft guidance.

This is the fourth edition of a series of virtual discussions among stakeholders in different regional innovation ecosystems about IP diversity gaps, with the goal of raising
awareness, measuring and analyzing the gaps, and identifying promising initiatives to address them.