USPTO: Intellectual Property Basics & Helpful Resources

Webinar

For those who are unfamiliar with patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is hosting a webinar for “experts about intellectual property (IP) basics and potential ways to protect creator innovations as from idea to product.  The Office “offers this free event for aspiring entrepreneurs, innovators, and students the […]

Copyright Society: Whose Dish Is It Anyway?: Copyrightability of Cookbooks, Recipes, and Your Nonna’s Secret Marinara

Virtual Event

The Copyright Society will host an event on Zoom titled Whose Dish Is It Anyway? Copyrightability of Cookbooks, Recipes, and Your Nonna’s Secret Marinara. This panel discussion will “explore the copyrightability of cookbooks, recipes, chef's ‘signature’ dishes, and all things culinary.” San Francisco-based chef Maria Zizka “will share her strategies for publishing copyrightable cookbooks.” Attorney Lynn Oberlander […]

Save the Date: C-IP2, ITIF, and Hudson Institute: World IP Day Panel

Panel

Learn what young innovators and creators think about IP and copyright by attending a World IP Day panel hosted by C-IP2, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), and Hudson Institute. This year’s theme focuses on IP and Youth: innovating for a Better Future. The event will feature “a panel young speakers across a variety of IP-intensive […]

Scalia Law’s Arts & Entertainment Advocacy Clinic and WALA: Protest and Political Art: What Does the Law Allow?

Virtual Event

George Mason University’s Scalia Law School’s Arts & Advocacy Clinic and the Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts (WALA) will host an event featuring photographer and documentarian Michele McManus to “discuss managing legal risks associated with making and selling art that documents political movements, protests, and uprisings.” The event is free and open to the public. […]

C-IP2 and Arts Management Program at George Mason University: Beyond the Notes with Maria Schneider—A Conversation about Respecting Artist Rights

George Mason University, Antonin Scalia Law School Arlington, Virginia

Grammy Award-winning composer Maria Schneider will participate in a conversation “about her boundary-pushing musical career and arts activism,” moderated by George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School Professor and Arts & Entertainment Advocacy Clinic Director Sandra Aistars. The event is co-hosted by Mason’s Center for Intellectual Property x Innovation Policy (C-IP²) and Arts Management Program. For additional information and registration, please click here.

USCO Webinar: Update on the Copyright Public Record System

Webinar

The U.S. Copyright Office will host its next public modernization webinar to keep the public informed regarding its modernization efforts. The Office recently released the Copyright Public Records System (CPRS) pilot, “which will provide access to the same registration and recordation data that exists in the Copyright Public Catalog but with enhanced search capabilities and an improved interface. This […]

USPTO: Diversifying Your Market or Supply Chain: Copyright Protection

Virtual Event

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is hosting a session for small business owners and entrepreneurs who want to learn how to protect their intellectual property (IP in Mexico. The event will feature experts from the USPTO who will address the best approaches for protecting and enforcing copyrights in Mexico, including copyright registration, the […]

Authors Guild: Minding Your Poetry Business

Panel

As part of its Business Bootcamps for Writers series, the Authors Guild is hosting a panel discussion with Philadelphia poet laureate Yolanda Wisher and four Philly-connected poets from various backgrounds who will discuss “how they do business through writing, teaching, performing, consulting, and more.” This panel is designed to provide “practical advice and real talk for poets […]

Fordham University IP Institute: 29th Annual Intellectual Property Law & Policy Conference

Conference

The Fordham University Intellectual Property Institute is hosting the 29th Annual IP Law Conference on April 21-22. Known as the “Davos of IP,” the event will be held online this year. The Conference “offers an important forum for leaders in government, the judiciary, academia, and the private sector around the world to meet, discuss and resolve current IP […]

LOC: Deadline to Apply for 2022 AHHA Internship Program

Deadline

April 25 is the deadline to submit applications for the 2022 Fall session of the Archives, History and Heritage Advanced (AHHA) Internship Program to the Library of Congress (LOC). In the Fall of 2022, AHHA will be a hybrid program that includes both onsite and remote projects. The event has passed.