At tonight's annual patent dinner for Monroe county inventors, Xerox Corporation will celebrate the intellectual achievements that create value for its customers and are powering future generations of the company's products and services.
The dinner is being hosted by Len Parker, vice president of the Xerox Engineering and Enterprise Center and chief engineer. He also is responsible for the company's intellectual property operations.Ê The keynote speaker is Frank Cost, assistant dean of Rochester Institute of Technology's Colleges of Arts & Sciences and co-director of the Printing Industry Center.Ê Cost's speech is called "How Xerox Inventors Helped Me Reach the Promised Land."
The invitation list includes 350 researchers, scientists and engineers who were awarded patents in 2005.Ê They come from a variety of Xerox's Monroe County operations, including Information Management, the Paper, Supplies and Supply Chain organization, the Production Systems Group, the Xerox Engineering and Enterprise Center, the Xerox Innovation Group, and the Xerox Office Group.
"Our strength in technology drives Xerox's success, and it is the foundation for everything we do. It has enabled us to create entirely new businesses again and again," Parker said.Ê "This dinner celebrates the inventors whose innovations differentiate our existing systems, whose ideas are the basis for our next generation of services and solutions, and whose creativity will ultimately generate the new businesses that secure our future."
The dinner, to be held at the Rochester Convention Center, will honor not only the patent recipients but also their families and the Xerox legal staff charged with protecting the intellectual property.
The company consistently creates value with its inventions by embedding them in Xerox products, solutions and services, using them as the foundation of new businesses, or licensing or selling them to other entities.Ê For more information about Xerox technology and brand licensing, visit www.xerox.com/innovation.
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