Native American Intellectual Property Enterprise Council

NAIPEC AND NATIVE INNOVATION
The Native American Intellectual Property Enterprise Council

The Native American Intellectual Property Enterprise Council (NAIPEC) supports invention and innovation in the Native American community by providing quantitative patenting, copyright, and trademark assistance. By helping individual inventors or tribal communities bring new concepts to market, NAIPEC is at the intersection of industry and academia, facilitating opportunity and helping create new knowledge-based enterprises.

You can join us as an inventor, you can support us with your funding or time and talent, or help us reach out to the vast pool of Native Intelligence and the people who can help us support them.

BREAKING NEWS FROM NAIPEC

NAIPEC Opens Office at USPTO
After diligent work by both the teams at USPTO and NAIPEC, we are delighted to announce that the office allocated to NAIPEC at the United States Patent & Trademark Office is now open.

At a special Reception on January 30, 2012, Under Secretary David Kappos welcomed the NAIPEC team.

Mr. Kappos echoed President Obama's words in this year's State of the Union address, and pointed to innovation and invention as one of the central pillars of the country's competitive advantage, and as a source of inspiration for all the various communities of the nation, particularly Native Americans.

David Petite thanked all the staff at USPTO for their hard work in achieving this milestone, and challenged Native inventors to continue to demonstrate the inventive spirit that has typified them for generations.

NAIPEC is currently advertising for Native student interns to help be a part of the presence at USPTO.

View video of remarks at this historic event >>

An Introduction to Native Innovation
Long before the first European’s discovery expedition washed ashore, some of the greatest civilizations in the world thrived in the Americas. Complete with major population centers; technologically advanced cultures that often radically engineered the landscape across the continent, to the point that even "timeless" natural features like the Amazon rainforest can be seen as products of human intervention, these civilizations ultimately fell foul of European expansion and the disease and cultures that came with it. Read more