Amazon, Cruise, The Walt Disney Company, Google, Meta, and Microsoft have partnered to create the Advancing Diversity Across Patent Teams (ADAPT) initiative, which will seek to boost diversity, equity and inclusion in the intellectual property industry.
The companies, which are all members of fellow partner LOT Network, plan to make DEI resources and programs more accessible to companies of all sizes as a key component of their efforts. ADAPT will initially focus on the patent industry, but it plans to broaden its mission to other areas of IP down the line.