Committee on Intellectual Property

What We Do

The ACS Committee on Intellectual Property (CIP) is a Society reporting to the Council and the Board. The committee’s purpose is to support intellectual property through advocacy, education, and awards.  

Both the Board and the Council call upon CIP to study and make recommendations on matters of importance to the ACS, especially as it relates to intellectual property. Innovation is a major component to the health and growth of the U.S. chemical enterprise and intellectual property rights are an integral component to innovation.   

CIP focuses on three main areas:

1. Educating ACS members about intellectual property issues important to the chemical enterprise;
2. Monitoring legislative and regulatory developments influencing intellectual property; and
3. Nominating chemists and chemical engineers for national awards. 

Who We Are

The CIP consists of three subcommittees:  Awards, Education and Outreach, and Advocacy. CIP meets semiannually at each ACS National Meeting.

For more information about the Committee, contact CIP’s staff liaison, Emily Cumberland.

Highlights

The Intellectual Property Committee Helps Increase Recognition for Chemists and Chemical Professionals

CIP seeks to highlight and acknowledge the intellectual property contributions of chemists and others working in the chemical enterprise. To this end, CIP recommends nominations chemists for the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the National Inventors Hall of Fame, and the National Women’s Hall of Fame. To suggest someone for these honors, please email CIP.

CIP congratulates ACS members recently inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame: Marvin Caruthers, Sumitra Mitra, ACS Central Science Editor-in-Chief Carolyn Bertozzi, and Margaret Wu. We welcome your suggestions for future nominees.