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Randi L. Karpinia, Director Intellectual Property Law, Motorola Solutions Inc.

Adapting to a Changing Business Environment

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Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO, Amazon

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Organizational Structure

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Budgets Matter

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Becoming Valued Business Partnersseamlessly integrate into businesses and become an invaluable resource

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Balancing Practitioner Roles

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Business Centric Patent Prosecution

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TACTICAL APPROACH STRATEGIC APPROACH

Pathways to transformation:

Strategic and knowledgeable decision making along the path to issuance

Strategic USPTO filing avenues (accelerated examination, first office action interview pilot)

USPTO prosecution external statistical tools (examiner statistics)

Nurturing an IP Culture in today’s fast paced business world

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Thank You!

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