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Broad initiative to encourage diversity and inclusion launches

December 02 2015
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UK IP and business professionals met to celebrate the launch of a new scheme called IP Inclusive, to educate the IP community about cultivating a professional culture that embraces diversity and promotes inclusion irrespective of age, gender, sexuality, race, physical ability, faith, wealth or background

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