LTU establishing National Academy of Inventors Chapter.
The intellectual property law firm of Ward Law Office LLC is a proud sponsor of this new chapter of the National Academy of Inventors at Lawrence Technological University. Press release below and very exciting news indeed!
SOUTHFIELD—Lawrence Technological University is in the process of establishing a new chapter of the National Academy of Inventors.
NAI is a nonprofit membership organization based in Tampa, Fla., formed in 2010 at the University of South Florida to encourage inventors in academia.
NAI now has more than 4,600 individual members, including NAI Fellows, Senior Members, and Chapter Members, affiliated with approximately 260 institutions—U.S. and international universities, governmental agencies, and nonprofit research institutes—worldwide. Fellows must be named as an inventor on at least one United States patent and are selected by the NAI Fellows Committee.
The formation of the LTU NAI chapter was spearheaded by longtime LTU engineering technology professor Ken Cook, holder of some 25 U.S. patents. Cook, whose teaching career at LTU spanned seven decades, passed away March 21 at the age of 82.
The members admitted to LTU’s chapter will be comprised of the University’s most prolic inventors, encompassing alumni, faculty, students and friends.
LTU President Tarek M. Sobh said the formation of the chapter is meant to honor Cook’s memory, to help recognize LTU’s inventors and innovators, and to encourage LTU faculty to pursue U.S. patents for the innovations they create through the university’s growing reserach effort.
“Ken Cook was a prolific inventor, and we have many other true innovators among our distinguished faculty, students, and alumni community,” Sobh said. “We believe an NAI chapter at LTU is a natural extension of our increasing level of research sophistication.”
An informational meeting for all those who would be interested in participating in an LTU NAI chapter will be held as part of the University’s annual Research Day, Friday, April 19. The meeting will be held from 2 to 3 p.m. in Room M336 of the LTU Buell Building, building 5 at http://www.ltu.edu/map.
The chapter is sponsored by the intellectual property law firm Ward Law Office LLC, with offices in Southfield and Tiffin, Ohio.
Organizers plan to conduct two meetings per year, nominate members for national recognition, share member success stories, educate the community on patent pursuit, and send LTU chapter representatives to the NAI’s annual national conference.
https://www.ltu.edu/content/news/ltu-establishing-national-academy-of-inventors-chapter
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