Welcome everyone, I'm Cara Duckworth, acting Chief
Communications officer here at the United States Patent and
Trademark Office or USPTO.
I want to thank you for joining us today for the Women's
Entrepreneurship Symposium. We are so excited to have you here
for the first of five discussions held every Wednesday
in March celebrating Women's
History Month. Starting with an important fireside chat with a
key leader of the Department of Commerce to engaging panels on
successful business strategies and creating a more inclusive
environment for women to thrive. These programs will highlight
women leaders, inventors, and entrepreneurs who will share
their insights and experience with the goal of advancing the
role of women in innovation.
Before we start the program, a few housekeeping items, brief
reminder that the agenda for today's program was even in the
inbox of everyone who registered. But it could also be
found at www.uspto.gov. During the panels we will be accepting
questions by email at WES at uspto.gov. That's a lot of
letters, so I'm going to repeat it. WES, at uspto.gov. We will
do our best to get to all of
your questions. At the end of each panel, if for any reason
you get disconnected, you can log back into the program at
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a portion of the program, don't worry, we will be posting the
presentations online on our web page in the next few days.
Now I would like to introduce Coke Stewart, who will be
moderating our Fireside chat, advancing the role of women in
the intellectual property ecosystem. But first, a little
bit about Coke.
Coke is currently performing the functions and duties of the
deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual
Property and Deputy Director of the USPTO. As the number two
person at the agency, she is involved in every aspect of our
operations. A successful patent attorney Coke has served in many
important roles at the USPTO. As senior policy advisor to the
director as senior counsel for patent Law and litigation and as
the acting. Deputy solicitor, among other impressive
positions, Coke also does what many other successful women do.
She gives back to the community. She volunteers with women in
stem and she works with others within our organization to help
them with their career progression and for all of us
women. We understand and appreciate how important
mentorship is in building
confidence. She also happens to be a big Duke basketball fan,
and for those of us who aren't, we won't hold that against her.
I am proud to introduce you to a very respected leader
at our agency of 13,000 employees. Ladies and
gentlemen. Coke Stewart.
Yeah, it's a tough time to be a
Duke basketball. 2 basketball fan.
If anyone saw the game last night against Georgia Tech, it
was not our best performance, but I am so happy to be here and
happy to be here with another ACC fan. And Wynn Coggins who I
will introduce shortly just wanted to give some preliminary
remarks. So excited to be joined today by so many inspiring
colleagues, panelists and women entrepreneurs and from everyone
at the USPTO I just want to extend a warm welcome to all of
you. Our panel this afternoon. Officially launches are series
of month long events. In honor of Women's History Month and
women. Preneurs, And I encourage all of you to participate in as
many of them as possible and you can find out more about them on
our social media pages among
other places. 11 years ago the USPTO launched the first
Women's Entrepreneurship Symposium and the event really
signaled the agency's commitment to promoting women entrepreneurs
and spearheading initiatives that are pivotal to expanding
the presence of women in the
innovation ecosystem. An it's an issue we've long been studying.
As some of you may be aware, we've issued some reports
recently on women, an invention on the most recent one was
called progress and potential 2020 update on women Inventor
Path patentees and I thought you might be interested in some of
the key findings. First of all, more women are entering the
patent system than ever before, so that's great patents for the
least one woman inventor accounted for about 20% of the
patents. About five years ago, and that percentage has been
going up to closer to 22% these days, and the number of women
among all US inventor patentees grew from about 12% five years
ago. It took close to 13% today.
And women are staying engaged in patenting. So about half of
women who did file patent applications filed again within
five years. So I know when you hear these numbers 12% and 20%,
it doesn't sound as high as we would like them to be. But when
you consider the hundreds and thousands of patent applications
filed each year and the millions of patents and circulation, even
small shifts in these numbers represent the work of thousands
and thousands of new female inventors. So it is very
exciting. Shifting gears, I'm pleased to note that the USPTO
is an employer is also made great progress and supporting
women in STEM careers. For example, while women in the
United States hold about 25% of staff jobs, women here at the
USPTO hold about 32% of those jobs. And while nationally only
about 25% of women, are senior executives in corporations in
about 20% depending on the measure of women are partners in
law firms at the USPTO women
represent. 34% of our senior executives, an women, hold many
of our most senior executive positions in the agency. Many of
them are tuned in today, so I wanted to identify some of them
for you because there are great resources for you within an
outside, the agency.
So some of them are DDS, Decker or acting Chief of Staff Mary
Carthoris, our Chief Policy
Officer. Turn faired or deputy Chief Policy Officer, Valencia
Martin Wallace and Robin Evans, deputy commissioners from Alton,
or deputy Director of Government Affairs Jackie Bonier, deputy
chief judge at the PTAB, Debbie Stevens, our Chief Information
Officer, Ann Mendez, our Deputy Chief Administrative Officer Amy
Cotton are acting Deputy Commissioner for Trademark
examination policy and someone you just met. Our new corporate
communications officer, Cara
Duckworth. I also wanted to highlight that three of our five
regional offices are led by women, Hope Shimabuku
in Dallas, Molly Kocialski, in Denver and Elizabeth Dougherty
Eastern Regional outreach director here in Alexandria, and
you'll hear from both.
Elizabeth and Molly today. So I want to commend all these women
who are part of our USPTO executive team in our building.
It even stronger USPTO for the
future. And this is a perfect transition to our guest
Wynn Coggins, who I'm delighted to
introduce this afternoon. Wynn has over 30 years of federal
service, most of it spent on our very own USPTO. As you know,
when was most recently our Deputy Chief Administrative
Officer and work very closely with our former Deputy Director
Laura Peter as Our Chief of
staff. When recently left the USPTO to become the deputy
Assistant Secretary for Administration or Dosa as it's
called in the Department of Commerce and for those who may
not know the DASA is the most senior executive in the entire
Department. So during the transition, Wynn was a natural
pick? Two dental person to be picked to serve to head the
Department, and in that role she was overseeing €12.00, a budget
of almost $9 billion, an almost
50,000 employees. And as you may have heard this today, Governor
Raimondo was sworn in as the new.
Permanent Secretary of the Department of Commerce. So I
am sure she will be very grateful to everything when
has done to lead the Department during this
transition.
Wynn is an accomplished executive an administrator
and based on my odds observation, she's also a
devoted mother, an interior designer, a landscape
architect. And has many other skills.
Which is just a testament to versatility in our numerous
strengths, within and outside
the workplace. So simply said,Wynn is the superstar, she's the
perfect person to kick off today's events. So Wynn thank
you for joining us today, I hope you're ready for some tough
questions. Everyone wants to get some advice from you today.
Glad that we're able to connect. Hi everybody.
So today the pretty exciting day over at the Department, Wynn it
is, it's very exciting and you mentioned that yes, Governor
Raimondo is now the Secretary of Commerce. I actually had the
great honor of swearing her in just now, so just wow.
Incredible. Just really incredible. I I felt very. I
felt very honored to have that opportunity an she is simply
amazing. Everyone on this call is going to really enjoy
getting to know her and see her in action. She's
fantastic.
Yes, her biography is incredible. I encourage
everyone to look her up and it it'll. It'll blow you right
out of your chair when you read about her and we're so
excited to have her and to have another strong female
leader.
Department absolutely,
absolutely. So Wynn let's jump right in.
So one of the things I wanted to ask you about is when you were
at the USPTO you were looking for ways to expand the
participation of women in leadership roles. And you
cofounded USPTO's network of executive women. So I wanted to
ask you a little bit about that. Why you established it, and you
know what, if anything, you
learned about. Pulling this group together. Sure no, I'd
love to talk about that. So this was in 2015 and Coke you
know when I think many on this call know we were celebrating a
very historic event. Michelle Lee had just become the first
woman to be confirmed as the USPTOs director and an Under
Secretary Commercial Property. So that was huge.
And I was sitting. I remember sitting in a senior management
meeting shortly thereafter and I kind of looked around and I
realized to your earlier point just how many women that we at
the USPTO had in leadership roles that were represented
right there in that meeting
around the table. And I kind of I left that meeting got involved
in something else, but but went back later and I did a little
digging an I found that at the time, looking at the data that
again to you earlier point women represented over 30% of our
senior executives. And even though 30% may not seem like a
very high number.
As we did kind of more investigation, we realized just
how far ahead we were, even at that 30% number. When you
compare that other industries you know, especially the
technical industries and the law firms. So I think you know that
was a lightning strike where we realize just how much the USPTO
truly was blazing a trail for women in executive leadership
positions. So I had a very good friend at the time and I still
do. And admittedly she was my partner in crime. Alot of things
and I think a lot of you on this call know her well. It was Sarah
Harris. She was then General Counsel and Sarah and I were
having lunch one day and I said hey we need to celebrate this
somehow. What do you think? What
should we do? And Sarah, being Sarah, naturally said, let's
have a party, and which is a great idea because I knew that
she was thinking about the value of networking, which is truly
it's it's it's. It's a great tool to be able to, to to use in
these kinds of situations.
But the more I thought about it, the more I realize the
importance of doing something formal and building something
that potentially could have a
lasting impact. And I also knew that a lot of us and I think a
lot of us on the on this call still in these executives jobs.
We just don't have natural network. Sometimes at these
levels. And I know that we needed a place to kind of come
together to share stories to connect to. You know, get some
informal advice on things we're dealing with. And I also knew
that we could do a better job bringing up those behind us and
being mentors. So I said, hey, your party is a great idea, but
what do you think about starting
an affinity group? And that's what we did. And we also
actually been had a party to kick it off, so we were able to
do both. And I have to say we work with Bismarck Myrick and
his group and they were phenomenal and helping us sort
of navigate the hoops we have to jump through to get the
group started and it was it was it was, I think a success for
what it was made for, what it was intended to be and I hope
it's still thriving because that was. That was a lot of fun
to do and in the intent was to have a lasting impact.
That's amazing, I mean, I just learned in this process that
you would help start that. So thank you on behalf of
everyone here at USPTO for getting that off the ground
Wynn.
The next thing I wanted to ask you about was just kind of an
issue of mentoring. And of course we have a very strong
mentoring program at the USPTO, but I was interested in your
telling us a little bit about mentors that you've had. Who
helped shape your leadership style, and if there's any kind
of lessons learned or maybe career advice that you can give
from them. I mean, I can't.
It's just so hard for folks to understand what your life must
have been like over the past few months. Running this whole
agency. Obviously you've got the same amount of time in the day
as we all do, and just how you manage time and and what.
All the advice of your career and how it may be impacted your
roll over the past recent
months. Absolute no happy happy to jump in and talk a little bit
about that. So first I'm just so very grateful to the many, many
mentors that I've had throughout my career and also my personal
life. Because if you think about it, career often has that
inflection point into personal life sometimes. And sometimes we
give too much to career. Not enough personal life, and then I
get that a balance. So we have to be really careful about
making sure that that balances is constantly being kind of viewed
corrected when we can. But let me share something Coke with you
and something that might be surprising to the group. I've
had a lot of mentors.
And we didn't always get along an we didn't always agree.
So if you think about that for a minute and think about just
how easy it is to naturally gravitate those that think and
act like you do because it's so reaffirming.
That can be really tricky, right?
The one thing that really shaped me as a leader and that I found
to be just so instrumental into what I'm doing now really is
just gravitating towards people and pushing myself outside that
comfort zone to really find folks that were different than I
am. So really, its diversity. I think that has really helped me
and you know, really, having the ability to reach out beyond your
comfort level and realize that there are other opinions outside
your own area that there are other ways to look at and solve
the problem. But there are other ways to react and make decisions
that all really helped show me the value of being inclusive of
being open to feedback. Honestly, feedback that you may
not like or you may not agree with and really just being open
to kind of new and just different ways of thinking.
And all of this really helped me tremendously, and building not
only a more holistic way of thinking, but also, you know,
improve my self awareness.
Which I think is the number one quality that most successful
leaders have. Is that just finely tuned self awareness.
And I can tell you this based on my experience. It's also the
number one quality lacking in leaders that haven't been
successful unfortunately. So when it comes to mentors, when
it when it when it comes to this kind of thing. My advice is
this. Surround yourself with mentors who frankly, don't think
like you do. They don't react and don't act like you do that.
Don't come from the same background that haven't had
those same experiences and at work look at the world just a
little bit differently. Because you know it well, it's not easy.
It's going to push you and it's really going to help you grow.
So I wanted to ask a follow up practical question on that Wynn
which is and I know I myself have struggled with it
sometimes. How do you implement this? Yeah, I mean, if you're a
mom and you've got kids now we're in a pandemic. Do you set
up regular copies? Or how do you keep that mentoring networking
cadence going with your with this group that you've
assembled. So the one thing I know Coke, did you know about
me? And most probably others do too at this point is I'm
not very shy so I don't struggle. I don't struggle
with with reaching out to folks. What would I have
struggled a little bit with is just making sure that I'm
not putting people on the spot or that I'm not being
too aggressive or then I'm being very mindful of what
they're comfortable with, so you know that kind of goes
back to self awareness.
The other thing I think people need to maybe re adjust their
thinking a little bit on what they think of as mentorship,
because for mentorship it's not always you know, grabbing
somebody for coffee, although that helps you know it's not
always actively trying to get time on their calendar.
Mentorship is also watching and
learning. So you know if you're in a meeting with someone and
you're maybe they don't, they're not coming across on the issue
that you might be more open to their viewpoint. Try to
understand where they're coming from, because that sort of
passive mentorship can really inform you if you let it on,
then how you would might react and another similar situation.
So it's not always those one on one Sit down. You know what I
think many people think of his mentorship, and those feedback
sessions. It's also about watching people work, watching
people navigate. Watching people on their feet listening,
you know, really finely tuned that listening skill because
sometimes if someone is not reacting the way that you would
not responding in a way that you would. You took you tune
that out. You naturally just doing that out. So you want to
keep your ears open to that because that's sort of a passes
mentorship action that you can take really without, you know,
putting any any time constraint. The other
individual you just actively learning and you're actively.
You're actually taking in information about how to do
things may be a little bit differently.
Having said that, there's one on ones are great if you can. You
know, I have often approached somebody and and ask them to,
you know, have coffee make time. Can I grab a few minutes in
between? Meetings if something happens during a meeting.
Sometimes I'll follow up with them and say, hey, that was
interesting. Can you follow up and share with me your thought
process there and you know most folks that are that are in this
and in it for all the right reasons. You know they really
want to, you know, pay that forward so you know they'll make
time for you. Absolutely, you know they'll find a way to to
bring you in, and I'll talk about that a little bit. But I
see mentorship is a two way activity, right? It you are just
as responsible for mentorship as the career as the employee
trying to be mentored.
As the mentor who needs to give
back. So yeah.
Thanks.
So shifting gears for a minute , Wynn you know with this
entrepreneurship Summit and our National Council for expanding
innovation, we're really trying to focus on how to get more
women and young girls into fields like stem where. There may
be under represented and obviously leadership positions,
so having spent time at USPTO now having spent time in the
Department, what do you think we as government agencies, can do
to encourage? More women and girls in these areas.
So I think that there's more that we can do is agencies, but
also more that we can do with individuals, right? So it's kind
of like a little bit of a two part question, so I think number
one you've got to generate that spark of interest early, and
then you've got to keep it burning brightly so you know.
And so how do you do that?
So I think all of us on this call can collectively just
simply start with being good role models and leaning in
when we see opportunities be proactive. I would say
individually we need to do a better job developing an
encouraging those that are coming up behind us. You know
that that goes to that, lifting each other up to
pushing people forward.
Servant leadership saying. Take an active interest you
know. Offer to be a mentor. If you see someone that could use a
little help, you know. Create career details. If you have that
ability to do that. But I think fundamentally it's just taking
the time to spend it with others and just trying to help them.
I would say that you know, open yourself up and invite others in
that that that can be that can be a little daunting sometimes,
and while it might seem simple, the and I found this
particularly in the past. You know two months or so, the
busier we get simply, the harder it is to make the time. You know
that's just that's just you just run out of time in the day that
is my biggest challenge right now. Just you know, finding the
time to meet regularly with my employees and then anyone else
that might that might reach out
and connect. But it's just so important and many of us truly
don't recognize just how much of a positive influence we can have
if we just simply make the time.
Um, I think as an organization, if you can and have the
opportunity you know, reach out, work with schools, work with
educational institutions. There's a lot we can do to
develop partnerships to design educational materials to design
training materials, to offer internships and other USPTO It
just has just done such a wonderful job in that space.
So in my mind it really starts with early engagement, right?
To generate that interest and then the constant care and
feeding to grow and develop that interest, which would
hopefully lead to increased numbers of women and girls
getting into these underrepresented areas.
Yeah, I know a great thing that we see a government to when
it's just that we can put on programs like this and they are
free. You know it's part of our mission and I've attended so
many great programs on women, entrepreneurship and
leadership, but a lot of them are very expensive and I just
think it's great that we're in a position to put on these.
And, you know, in a virtual environment we can have so many
people come in and watch and listen.
So another thing I wanted to ask you turns back a little
bit to your background Wynn.
You've had over 30 years an federal government. You've had
oversight for human resources, information technology, talent
acquisition. What advice can you give to women entrepreneurs in
the audience today about federal resources available to them and
what have you learned that would be informative and valuable for
them as women Entrepreneurs ? well Coke, first I want to thank
you so very much for reminding me of just how old I am. So
thank you for that.
Well, because you started when you were 18 righ? exactly
right. Yeah, child prodigy. Absolutely so let me start by
separating out the federal resources. Sort of part of the
equation from the what I have learned, part of the equation
because I think that the what I have learnt part might be just a
little more valuable for this audience. But certainly I'll
just. I'll just dive in on the federal resources part. So my
advice when it comes to understanding our federal
resources is to 1st understand truly how government works.
That's important. You need to understand the rules of the laws
and the regulations around innovation. You know whether
that innovation is a new product or a new business idea. You need
to first really understand the
constraints. So that you can understand the opportunities
right and getting a patent is a great example. It's a
complicated process, but if you do your homework and you
understand the process, it really makes so much easier.
So I think second is an entrepreneur. You really need to
understand the space that you're
working on. Not only do you need to be the subject matter expert
on whatever it is you're innovating, but you also need to
understand your competition. And you need to know that
entrepreneurial community and that's, I think with the federal
resources. Come in, there were just so many wonderful federal
small business resources that are available to grant programs
through training through counseling and coaching through
loans that are geared to giving entrepreneurs a boost. There's
so much out there, but you need to know where to find him, and
that can be a little bit tricky.
So certainly the Department of Commerce is a great resource.
The Small Business Administration is a great
resource. the US Chamber of Commerce. Those are all just
examples of organizations that have these federal programs
available to entrepreneurs. But you need to know how to
get there. So my advice is scuse me first to do your
homework and to network. That's this is very, very
important. Fine folks that have been there before. You
have been find out what worked for them and what didn't work
for them. You know you gotta put yourself out there.
So you also asked what did I learn? So as I think about the
the what I've learned, part of
the question. I think to do truly let's let's let's kind of
separate out the entrepreneurship part of it and
just think about anything that we're trying to achieve as
women. And I think to be successful really in anything
that we chase after. I think that fundamentally in
foundationally that we as women we really need to
believe in ourselves and our values and truly know what
we're bringing to the table and be confident in that, you
know, be passionate about whatever it is that you're
pursuing. And don't be afraid to ask for help. You know, I
find this to be something is interesting to me, and I've
studied this alot. You know, sort of in my 30 years in
government.
Some really see this is a weakness, but I actually see
asking for help is a strength 'cause it takes a lot of courage
to do that, and it's not natural for a lot of us.
The failure, I think, and I've seen this is actually when we
try to push through on something, knowing that we
either don't have all the information or we think we can
just do it on our own and it falls apart. You know, we
failed, the program fails, the project fails, missed
deadline. I can tell you this, I am rarely the smartest person in
the room on anything.
But maybe one or two things, but seriously, rarely on anything.
But I have learned overtime. The value of getting the right
people that are in the right jobs that are the right subject
matter experts together on an issue. So there be there can be
a collective collaborative and this is important informed
discussion because that's when the best decisions are made. And
I think that that maybe brings me to the most important piece
of advice that I have on this. It's don't be afraid to take a
risk. And don't be afraid to fail, because honestly, it's the
best way for all of us to learn and take it from me. I have had
some failures. But we are really not truly pushing ourselves if
we're not finding ways to try new things. And when you try new
things when you work outside your comfort zone, there is just
an inherent inherent risk of failure. You know you just can't
get away from that.
So my my thoughts and advice on this or don't play it safe. You
know. Instead, embrace taking
smart risks. And use it as an opportunity to learn and
grow, but also be accountable when things don't go as
planned because that will happen. You need to own the
mistakes when you make them and then be responsible for
fixing those mistakes.
And do take that risk. I think that's the most important thing.
And also as managers and leaders. If you think about it,
you know we need to also take that advice and allow our own
employees to take calculated risks and and to fail to some
degree, because we're not truly growing. Our employees were not
truly positioning them to be great leaders if they haven't
taken a risk and had some some some form of failure throughout
their careers because that truly is in my opinion, the only way
that you learn. And that's that's how I really honestly
think the best leaders are made.
So I'm going to exercise some moderators prerogative and ask
you a question another question because we got a little bit of a
late start. You said earlier that there been times in your
career or maybe you've done too much on the job side and you or
too little. I don't know. You didn't say that, but I mean I
just wanted to ask you because I can tell you when I hear from
women leaders like you.
The balance, whether it's you know your life outside of work,
whether it's caregiving to
You know a family member or children or your. You know
your interpersonal life.
However, we want to achieve. We want to get these Heights and
you certainly I mean to get to lead the Department of Commerce
at the Cabinet level agency is just phenomenal, but also to be
a working mother, a wife
And all the other interests and talents you have Wynn can you
give some advice to the group about how you've achieved? You
know these successes and also balance these other interests
and priorities in your life. I can tell you what I tried and
again I have some of this is not worked well for me. Has not
worked well for my husband, but we've been able to sort of pivot
and ANAN, right size it a little bit so so I've always tried to
look at career and personal life as as kind of balance, right?
And sometimes you could add a balance, you know you read a lot
about having it all and you know can we all have it all? I think
we can. But I think there has to be an understanding that
sometimes be having it all gets out of wack. So sometimes you
put too much into the personal life monitor into careers
sometimes too much into career and not much into the personal life.
And I think there can be moments in time when it does get out of
balance. You just have to be aware of that and be able to
kind of pull back a little bit and just make sure you're making
those deposits on whatever whatever side is not getting
enough getting enough attention.
To me it comes down to communication. I've got a
wonderful husband, great kids we're constantly talking. We're
constantly communicating, you know, do we get upset? Do we get
mad? Do I miss volleyball game sometimes? Yeah, but I think you
know we all understand what we're trying to do. And often I
asked for help. So that comes back to asking for help. I got a
great network, friends, parents, my kids, my husband they, all
my network and then obviously all of my wonderful colleagues
at the Department.
And it's just. It's just so important communication
piece. I cannot overemphasize it. But the other piece that
that I have found to be enormously successful in both
life and career is is the authentic apology.
Something goes wrong, you missed something. You make a mistake.
You miss a doctors appointment.
Maybe you might flub up on a presentation. The I'm so sorry I
gotta tell you when it's real and authentic it will take you a
long way because we're not perfect and we are going to
stumble. And the key is just being able to pivot from that.
Pick yourself up, ask for help desk yourself off and keep on
going. I don't. I don't like looking in the rearview mirror
'cause things happen. I try not to dwell on that. I try to learn
from it and keep moving forward, and I think that's important
too, especially at home. You know 'cause things do go wrong
sometimes and. I think it's great to admit mistakes, you
know, own accountability, but don't dwell on maybe what what
happened and didn't go right. I'm a glass is half full person
so I try to dwell on how can I improve for the future. How can
I make that better the next time? How can I avoid that not
happening the next time and just you know, celebrating little
things you know with your spouse. You know with your
partner with your kids so that when you are there your present
and just being president not distracted is so important.
So if I've got some family time, family moments at home, I'm
trying to put away the phone. You know, I'm trying to be
there. I'm trying to be president. Sometimes I go from a
from a crazy day when I've been at it since 7:00 o'clock in the
morning until about 6:30 7 o'clock at night. And then I find myself
sitting at the kitchen table with my son doing 8th grade
science. And, you know, trying and trying to remember, you
know, cell structure and biology, but he needs me, so I
need to be present in that moment. And while I'm madly
Googling, you know what? What do these things mean and how can I
help him learn? And sometimes the date isn't until about
11:30 twelve o'clock. But you know I had to be there had to
be present to be there for him, but they also had to get done.
But I needed to get done during that day too. So you know that
being present part when you checked in. Try not to check
out this hard to do sometimes.
Just a couple of personal
thoughts. I love it. Thank you so much Wynn an I mean your
schedule is unbelievable and today of all days with the new
Secretary of Commerce coming in to make time to talk to all of
us and our employees and all the women participating, I heard we
have. We may have as many as 1000 or more people who have
registered for our program and I know not everyone can stay for
the full time. But Wynn for you to give us this time, it's we as
an agency and we as women
leaders so. Much appreciate your contribution and everything
you're doing is a role model, so just thank you so much for
joining us today. And for having this talk and.
If you if you don't have anything else, I think it's time
to turn it back to Sean to set
up the next panel. Coke thank you And and thank you to you and
to the team for inviting me. I'm humbled to have been apart of
this. I wouldn't have missed it for the world. I miss my USPTO,
friends and colleagues and I couldn't thank you enough for
including me today's program. So
thank you. Thank you Wynn.
Well, thank you Coke for moderating that session and
thank you Wynn for your participation today and
congratulations on your continued success. We here at
USPTO rooting for you because you're still our
family and we appreciate you.