Patenting protects innovation, fosters academic incentives, promotes competition, and
generates new revenue for clinician-inventors and their institutions. Despite these
benefits, and despite plastic surgery’s history of innovation, plastic-surgery-related
patent applications are few.
In this video, Rod J. Rohrich, MD, Editor-in-Chief of “Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery,” discusses a new study that aims to educate plastic surgeons with a step-wise process on converting ideas into patents.
Read the October 2021 PRS #PlasticSurgery article, “Overcoming the Patent Gap: A Guide to Patenting for Plastic Surgeons” by Kisyova, Yap Kannan, Nadkarni, and Chandawarker. Find it on PRSJournal.com.
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