{"id":218131,"date":"2023-05-03T16:28:42","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T15:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clarivate.com\/?p=218131"},"modified":"2026-03-27T09:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T09:40:57","slug":"celebrating-women-in-ip-meet-our-expert-rosemary-bassilakis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clarivate.com\/intellectual-property\/blog\/celebrating-women-in-ip-meet-our-expert-rosemary-bassilakis\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating women in IP: Meet our expert Rosemary Bassilakis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-218133 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/clarivate.com\/intellectual-property\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/05\/Rosemary-Bassilakis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clarivate.com\/intellectual-property\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/05\/Rosemary-Bassilakis.jpg 801w, https:\/\/clarivate.com\/intellectual-property\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/05\/Rosemary-Bassilakis-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clarivate.com\/intellectual-property\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/05\/Rosemary-Bassilakis-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/clarivate.com\/intellectual-property\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/05\/Rosemary-Bassilakis-768x764.jpg 768w, https:\/\/clarivate.com\/intellectual-property\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/05\/Rosemary-Bassilakis-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/clarivate.com\/intellectual-property\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/05\/Rosemary-Bassilakis-40x40.jpg 40w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>This year the theme of World Intellectual Property Day is \u201cWomen and IP: Accelerating innovation and creativity.\u201d Clarivate helps companies accelerate innovation, achieve long-term growth and realize sustainable success. We are happy to continue the global celebration of World IP Day by spotlighting our women IP experts, whose ingenuity and talent pave the way to major breakthroughs. Here is the story of Rosemary Bassilakis, Service Operations Associate Director at Clarivate.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Finding passion in providing solutions to fuel innovation<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Deep expertise and experience in science can lead to a successful career in the intellectual property (IP) industry. Rosemary Bassilakis walked down this path which she describes as \u201cquite organic and fortuitous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After 15 years as a research associate in the laboratory, her passion for designing and building research equipment, conducting experiments and interpreting data evolved and she transitioned into a patent research position outside the lab. This was a challenging shift for Rosemary \u2013 made more complex by embarking on another very important role in the middle of a career change, the one of a mother. In doing so, she demonstrated strong will and determination can balance the best of both worlds.<\/p>\n<p>Now, 20 years later, Rosemary is an established Associate Director of Service Operations at Clarivate with three grown children.<\/p>\n<p>What Rosemary finds most rewarding in her role at Clarivate is the opportunity to collaborate and find efficient and effective solutions to answer customers\u2019 strategic questions. These answers ultimately help her customers optimize their IP processes, maximize efficiency and accelerate innovation.<\/p>\n<p>As Rosemary perceives it, the global patent world is vast, messy and quite challenging to make sense of. Nevertheless, she reflects that, \u201cI am part of an amazing team that captures, structures and analyzes Clarivate market-leading patent data to inform clients of critical details: the who, what, when, where and why in terms of innovation in their technology domains. The clarity and insight we provide gives our customers historical and directional perspectives which serve as the underpinning of strategy.\u00a0 Strategy stimulates creativity and accelerates innovation.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Gender equality and diversity key to lighten up the future of the IP industry<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Rosemary firmly believes that many women are still overshadowed by male colleagues in areas of innovation and IP creation adding that, in her opinion, there are a lot more women impacting the IP world than is reflected in today\u2019s patent ownership figures.<\/p>\n<p>Despite an increasing number of women <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stemwomen.com\/women-in-stem-percentages-of-women-in-stem-statistics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">graduates with science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) degrees<\/a>, only <a href=\"https:\/\/clarivate.com\/blog\/diversity-and-inclusion-in-innovation-understanding-the-gap-and-five-ways-to-empower-innovators\/\">16.5% of inventors<\/a> named on international patent applications are women, according to research from the Clarivate patent analytics team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is time for women to move out of the shadows and into the innovation spotlight. \u00a0Diverse groups of people work together not only to find the best answers, but to find them faster.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;To find innovative solutions to the complex and pressing challenges that humankind is facing today, we need a village, one with gender equality and diversity.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rosemary believes that as more women pursue STEM degrees and work in the IP industry, this will further contribute to breaking deep gender stereotypes. The future she desires for the IP world will be the reflection of gender equality not only in terms of patent ownership but also in terms of the number of executive positions held by women and the complete omission of pay gaps.<\/p>\n<p>As a dedicated partner in providing IP services that elevate customers\u2019 ideas and sustainable success, Rosemary sees an incredible opportunity for gender diversity within the IP industry for continual learning, creation and collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo the women seeking an IP career, please know, you are enough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Be resilient. Be bold with your ideas, your voice and your leadership.\u00a0 We need your active participation not only to reach the world\u2019s innovative potential but also to pave the road for the next generation of women innovators.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To learn how our experts help you maximize your IP potential, check our <a href=\"https:\/\/clarivate.com\/products\/ip-services\/\">IP services<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/clarivate.com\/products\/ip-services\/#gate-6a18dde7-0b22-491d-8b38-b26e6ed919b8\">contact us<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year the theme of World Intellectual Property Day is \u201cWomen and IP: Accelerating innovation and creativity.\u201d Clarivate helps companies accelerate innovation, achieve long-term growth and realize sustainable success. 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