Cooley Presents Innovation Award to Students Participating in Project Invent

San Francisco – March 2, 2022 – Cooley has awarded a team of student inventors participating in nonprofit Project Invent with its Innovation Award, offering complimentary patent prosecution and counseling support to the group for its winning invention. Cooley lawyer Jeremy Binstock will lead this effort.

The Cooley Innovation Award was presented to Ferrofoot, a 10-student team whose foot brace invention is a comfortable and cost-effective solution that will help mitigate the foot drop symptom caused by multiple sclerosis. As part of the award, Cooley will prepare and file a provisional patent application, with an option to later convert to and prosecute a nonprovisional application, at no cost.

“Cooley is proud to be the first law firm sponsor in a program that really highlights the innovation of the next generation,” Binstock said. “The work that Ferrofoot presented at Project Invent’s Solutions Showcase was impressive and something we really believe will make a long-term impact beyond this project.”

Project Invent’s mission is to empower high school students with 21st-century skills to succeed individually and make an impact globally through invention. Students form teams to work on one problem that they identify in their local communities and spend a year modeling potential solutions to that problem, with the support of community partners. Along the way, they learn from teachers, coaches and mentors about intellectual property and potential methods of IP protection, including patents. At the end of the year, each student team presents their invention at the Solutions Showcase, which is judged in part by Cooley patent lawyers, who award free patent application preparation to one winning team. Cooley’s Innovation Award is a powerful catalyst of the fearless, change-making mindsets that Project Invent works to cultivate within young innovators.

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