Events

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is hosting the second in a series of three Women’s Entrepreneurship Symposiums during the month of March, titled Trends and Opportunities. The event will feature Tené Dolphin, Executive Director of the National Women’s Business Council, and Adji Fatou Diagne, Ph.D., Economist, U.S. Census Bureau, who will speak about “the economic […]

C-IP2 is hosting a virtual event titled Paradise Rejected: What the Decision to Reject Copyright Registration for an AI-Created Work Imagining an Afterlife Means for AI, featuring Professor Sandra Aistars, Senior Fellow for Copyright Research and Policy and Senior Scholar, C-IP2, Antonin Scalia Law School; and Dr. Robert Abbott, Professor of Law and Health Sciences, University […]

The Authors Guild is hosting a conversation with U.S. Representative Teresa Leger Fernández (D-NM) and Authors Guild lobbyist Marla Grossman. Representative Leger Fernández sponsored both the Creative Economy Revitalization Act (CERA) and the 21st Century Federal Writers Project. “This discussion will address the importance of authors and other creative professionals as a driving force in […]

NFT experts will join panel moderators—Dana Childs of Sound as A Pound and Jane Bushmaker of Adeptus Partners—to address what Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) are and to “delve into some of the legal and ownership considerations for creatives and other interested parties in this burgeoning marketplace.” The event will also address how creatives are using NFTs […]

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is hosting a webinar on “the latest developments in intellectual property (IP) law in China.” The program “will provide an opportunity for IP attorneys, businesses, inventors, brand owners and other IP stakeholders to access a unique and concise source of information about recently implemented IP-related measures and legal […]

The U.S. Copyright Office Affairs Committee and the American Bar Association’s Intellectual Property Law Section (ABA-IPL) will host their annual joint event, providing “a unique opportunity to interact with leaders from across the Copyright Office's divisions and administrative functions.” The event will also provide an opportunity to meet new Office leadership. You must be an ABA member […]

In celebration of Women’s History Month, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is hosting “an interactive fireside chat with women entrepreneurs and technology business leaders. From converting one of the oldest industries to the digital age, to overcoming a worldwide cybersecurity attack, to recovering from an unexpected power outage caused by a historic weather event, […]

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) will host an online webinar featuring Piero Attanasio, Head of Public Affairs for Associazione Italiana Editori (AIE) and a Member of the International Publishers Association’s (IPA) Copyright Policy Working Group, who will facilitate a discussion of Copyright Infrastructure–Rights Data and Identifiers in the Text Publishing Industry. Registration for this event […]

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is hosting the third in a series of three Women’s Entrepreneurship Symposiums during the month of March, titled From Inspiration to Commercialization. The event will feature Georgia Grace Edwards, CEO and Co-Founder of SheFly Apparel; and Ceata E. Lash, Founder, Inventor and Co-CEO, PuffCuff LLC. The speakers will talk about “how […]

The Copyright Alliance, Copyright Society and the Young Lawyers Division (YLD) of the Black Entertainment & Sports Lawyers Association (BESLA) will host part two of a three-part series, titled Black in Copyright. The event will feature a “moderated discussion focused on Black creators.” Through this discussion, the event “will provide awareness about the Black experience in Copyright […]

On February 3, Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter announced that the U.S. Copyright Office will extend the time period for copyright registration applicants who filed electronic applications with declarations under section 710 of the Copyright Act to submit their deposits to the Office. For such applicants, deposit copies must be received on or before March 31, 2022, […]

The Roger Williams University School of Law Intellectual Property Law Association (IPLA), in partnership with the Black Law Students Association, the Criminal Law Society, the Multicultural Law Students Association, the Criminal Law Society, the Asian American Law Students Association, and the Feinstein Center for Pro Bono & Experimental Education, will host an event on Zoom “to discuss […]