PATRICIA CARTER SLUBY is a Registered Patent
Agent and a former United States primary patent examiner. She is also a
free lance writer and lecturer who has appeared on television and radio
shows to discuss minority inventors. Sluby is the past president of the
National Intellectual Patent Law Association and has authored several
books.
The work Creativity and Inventions: The Genius of Afro-Americans
and Women in the United States and Their Patents (1987) details the
inventive nature of minorities in America. Her second book The Inventive
Spirit of African Americans: Patented Ingenuity (2004) discusses the
ancient contributions of African to the enslaved souls brought to American
shores and includes through time all fields up to the leading edge of
today's technology. An outgrowth of the previous work, the latest
publication The Entrepreneurial Spirit of African Americans (2011),
provides historical accounts of creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship
among African Americans from the 19th century to the present day.