Inventing with Intent: Where Engineering Rigor Meets Business Reality
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Gene Quinn discusses the challenges of being a prolific inventor in today's corporate and innovation landscape with engineer Fred Shelton.
Send us Fan Mail What does it mean to be a prolific inventor in an era of corporate retrenchment, weakened patent rights, and risk-averse innovation culture? This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed, host Gene Quinn explores that question with Fred Shelton—an engineer who has accumulated more than 3,000 patents over roughly two decades, primarily during his career at Johnson & Johnson. Shelton describes himself not as an IP professional, but as an engineer who “documents engineering through pate...
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Host: Gene Quinn
Guest: Fred Shelton
Topics covered
- prolific inventor
- patent rights
- innovation culture
- engineering
- corporate retrenchment
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Organizations: Johnson & Johnson
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