Sandra Nowak

Ms. Nowak is Chief Intellectual Property Counsel for the Health Care Business Group of 3M Company, where we connect people, insights, science, and technology in key markets to solve problems and make better health possible. Ms. Nowak is passionate about diversity in innovation. She helps lead this effort at 3M and around the world in her role as co-chair of the Intellectual Property Owners Association’s (IPO’s) Diverse Inventors Subcommittee and Women in IP Committee, where she works with a global group of IP professionals and inventors to advance diversity in innovation and women in IP. Ms. Nowak is also a founding member of the Twin Cities branch of ChIPs. In April 2019, Ms. Nowak testified before the United States Senate Judiciary Committee on the topic of Trailblazers and Lost Einsteins: Women Inventors and the Future of American Innovation.