Fitch Even was a sponsor of the 38th Annual National Inventors Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony held March 31, 2010 at the U.S. Department of Commerce in Washington, D.C. Fitch Even attendees at the induction events included Ed Gray, Tim Levstik, Sherri Blount and John Naber. Mr. Gray is the Chairman of the Board of Directors for the organization.

The National Inventors Hall of Fame was founded in 1973 by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the National Council of Intellectual Property Law Associations. Each year, men and women inventors are honored for work which has changed society and improved the quality of life. A partial listing of the 2010 inductees includes: Post-It® note co-inventors Arthur Fry and Spencer Silver; interactive video inventor Ralph Baer; Roger Easton, inventor of GPS; S. Donald Stookey, inventor of Corning Ware® consumer dishes; and Yvonne Brill, inventor of the hydrazine rocket thruster used to keep geosynchronous communications satellites orbits aligned with antennas on earth. Posthumously, Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Emile Gagnan were honored for their invention of the demand regulator for SCUBA equipment, a key advance in underseas diving equipment.

David Kappos, Patent and Trademark Office Commissioner and Assistant Secretary of Commerce, and Fitch Even partner, Ed Gray, presented the inductee honors at the 2010 ceremony.

To view a recent Washington Post article about the Induction Ceremony, visit Note to Self: Sticky Ideas Can Be Magic. For more information about the National Inventors Hall of Fame, visit www.invent.org.