More than 300 people packed into Austin’s historic Driskill Hotel on Sunday, March 15th to watch the patent-focused documentary, Inventing to Nowhere. The official SXSW 2015 event was complete with drinks, popcorn, a mac and cheese bar, and the straight-from-the-garage stomp and roll sounds of The Ghost Wolves.
After the screening, the crowd participated in a panel discussion featuring Michael Douglas, Ph.D. – Texas Life-Sciences Collaboration Center, Conley Giles – Founder and CEO of Invent It 2 Day, and Evan Fitzmaurice – Senior Attorney, The University of Texas System, who discussed their concerns with the Innovation Act (H.R. 9) from the perspective of universities, investors and small inventors.