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Female Inventors More female inventors are needed - Online Impulse I, Scientist 18.September 2020
Female Inventors
More female inventors are needed

       Online Impulse I, Scientist
         18.September 2020

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Female Inventors More female inventors are needed - Online Impulse I, Scientist 18.September 2020
Introduction

                             67437 Patent
                             applications in 2019
                             in Germany…

Source: www.dpma.de
Female Inventors More female inventors are needed - Online Impulse I, Scientist 18.September 2020
Introduction
                                                                                      …are women

                                                  10,6%
                                                                     10,4%
                                                    16,3 %
                                     4,8 %
                                                                             9,4%
                                                  6,8 %

                                                                              4,8 %
                         8,5 %                                 9,3%

                                                                             6,6 %
                                          7,1 %              6,3 %

                          6,0 %

                           6,8 %
                                                          5,8 %

                                  4,5 %

Source: www.dpma.de
Female Inventors More female inventors are needed - Online Impulse I, Scientist 18.September 2020
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            portion of female inventors - published first filings 2008 to 2017
                                      portion [%]
 7

 6

 5

 4

 3

 2

 1

 0
     2008    2009     2010    2011     2012     2013     2014     2015     2016   2017

Source: www.dpma.de
Female Inventors More female inventors are needed - Online Impulse I, Scientist 18.September 2020
Introduction

                    Portion of female inventors
100
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
 0
      2008   2009   2010   2011   2012   2013   2014   2015   2016   2017
Introduction

#onlysixpercent

         What does this mean?
Introduction

#onlysixpercent
Assuming that…

Women are as creative as men, and
the percentage of women in STEM-professions have an
average of more than 6%, then the small percentage of
female inventors will cause…
Introduction
#onlysixpercent
• Important technological progress is not protected
• No financial benefits (such as from employees
  inventorship law)
• No honour as inventor
• Less scientific publications (patents count!)
• Less professional promotion prospects
• Smaller visibility
• Less female inventor role models
Example: Siemens
Das Unmögliche möglich machen                Siemens has awarded
Träume                                  particulary clever investigators
Seit 1995 zeichnet Siemens herausragende      Forscher
                                         as inventors ofund  Entwickler
                                                         the year 2019 aus,
deren inventions in erheblichem Maße zum Unternehmenserfolg beitragen
und zugleich einen Nutzen for die Gesellschaft bringen. In diesem Jahr
steht die Veranstaltung unter dem Motto „Träume: Das Unmögliche
möglich machen“. Siemens hat 23 besonders findige Forscher als Erfinder
des Jahres 2019 ausgezeichnet. Die Wissenschaftler sind insgesamt for
rund 1.450 inventions und 1.500 erteilte Einzelpatente verantwortlich. Ein
Großteil der Erfinder kommt aus Deutschland, sowie aus den USA,
Russland, China, Großbritannien, Spanien, Italien und Rumänien. Seit
2016 können auch Forscher außerhalb des Unternehmens Erfinder des
Jahres werden.

https://new.siemens.com/global/de/unternehmen/innovationen/inventors.html
Example: Helmholtz
Um ein Problem zu lösen, müssen Menschen in der Forschung oft
unbeschrittene Wege gehen. Ist die Lösung dann tatsächlich neu und
nicht aus dem vorhandenen Stand der Technik abzuleiten, kann aus der
invention noch mehr entstehen: ein Patent. Jedes Erfinderteam des HZB
erhält bei der ersten Erteilung eines Patents for seine invention 1.000
Euro. Thomas Frederking, kaufmännischer GF am HZB, überreichte im
August bei einer feierlichen Runde Patenturkunden an female inventors
und Erfinder aus dem HZB, deren Patente zwischen Juli 2012 und Juli
2013 erstmalig erteilt wurden. Wir geben Ihnen hier einen Überblick über
die Patente der HZB-MitarbeiterinnenEachund
                                         team  of inventors
                                             Mitarbeiter  undof stellen
                                                                HZB die
Patentschriften in der rechten Boxwill
                                    zumreceive an award
                                         Download     zur of 1000 €
                                                          Verfügung.
                                      for the grant of their first
https://www.helmholtz-                patent for their invention
berlin.de/pubbin/news_seite?nid=13855;sprache=de;seitenid=74699
Awards
Reasons

#onlysixpercent

           Reasons?
Reasons

#onlysixpercent

• Inventor is omitted on the Declaration of
  Inventorship
• Structural Reasons
• Individual Reasons
Structural Reasons
                    patent applications in technological fields with the highest
                                  numbers of applications 2019

        MASCHINENBAU (MOTOREN, PUMPEN, TURBINEN)              3450

                                    MESSTECHNIK                        5051

               MASCHINENBAU (MASCHINENELEMENTE)                             5390

                                  ELEKTROTECHNIK                                     7160

                                      TRANSPORT                                                            12836

                                                   0   2000          4000          6000     8000   10000   12000   14000

source: www.dpma.de
Structural Reasons

           "male                    few
          domain"                  women

  unattraktive for                     less female
female newcomers                        inventors

                 Mainly "male"topics
Structural Reasons
Overall number of patent attorneys in Germany

                  3500
Structural Reasons
Number of female patent attorneys in Germany

                  458
Individual Reasons
1. Lack of time
2. Political Reasons
3. Toxic environment for female inventors/avoiding
   conflicts with coworkers
4. Internal opposition
5. Lack of experience with IP/invention is not
   recognized
6. Glorifying inventions/lack of selfconfidence
Individual Reasons
2.        Political/economic Reasons

                                       I prefer Open-Source

     Patents are expensive
      and have no impact

                                                     I do not want to deprive the
                                                      society of the technological
                                                                progress
                      I do not want to have
                        anything to do with
                        patents or other IP
Individual Reasons
3.         Toxic environment for female inventors/avoiding
           conflicts with coworkers
     The boss must
     be named also                                                 patent applications
                               If we file a patent
                            application we will have                 are expensive
                               a conflict with our
                              cooperation partner

                                                     The invention is a
       The invention will not                     competition for our own
       work, this is total crap,                          product
         you are a lunetic
Individual Reasons
4.   Internal opposition
We keep thinking about all kinds of obstacles:
Will the invention
be useful for the
    institute?                                             Will it work?

                                  Is this an
                                 invention?

                                               Is it worth while
                                                    to file an
                                                  application?
       Will I annoy anybody by
       reporting an invention?
Individual Reasons
5.   Lack of experience with IP
     invention is not recognized

       How will I recognize        What will I do, when I
         an invention?               have invented
                                      something?

      Do I have to pay
        something?                        Will I need a
                                          permission?
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