Events

On April 5, the Center for Intellectual Property Understanding (CIPU) will host the fifth annual Intellectual Property Awareness Summit (IPAS) 2022, featuring The Future of IP as its theme. The event will include two keynotes and four panel sessions, spanning topics such as “Entrepreneurship and Diversity,” “The IP Awareness Disconnect,” “The Rise of Virtual Property,’ and “Looming IP […]

The American Bar Association’s Intellectual Property Law Section (ABA-IPL) is hosting its IPLSPRING conference, featuring a variety of CLE program sessions, a discussion of critical issues in IP law, and the opportunity to network with colleagues throughout the three day event. Program topics and highlights include IP Protection for Software; Expungement and the Reexamination of […]

Composers Stephanie Economou, Bobby Tahouri, Tori Letzler, and Esin Aydingoz (moderator) will participate in a panel discussion on “how non-gamers break through those entry barriers to fully experience and appreciate these modern music masterpieces and the composers who create them.” The conversation will center upon “how to break through the blockades to the game scoring […]

This event will bring together a cross-disciplinary panel to examine how “courts handle patent-eligibility questions, particularly at the outset of patent cases, and ways in which copyright cases may deploy similar strategies.” The panel will also “examine an increasingly nuanced patent-litigation domain— treatment of the related questions of contributory, induced, and willful infringement—and share lessons […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

Musicologist and professor of music Judith Finell will moderate a panel titled Frenemies: Collaboration and Conflict Between Content Creators and Digital Platforms Using Music to Attract a Crowd, hosted by the LA Chapter of the Copyright Society. For additional information and registration, please click here.