Intellectual Property

The Intellectual Property Community is dedicated to bringing together IP lawyers to learn, collaborate and discuss practice issues. The Community holds virtual meetings and maintains a dedicated listserv for continuous engagement.

IP Community meetings focus on:  

• Registration and prosecution of rights both domestically and internationally
• Licensing of rights, franchising, and joint ventures
• Enforcement of rights and defenses through civil, criminal, and administrative remedies
• Utilizing IP as valuable assets (valuation and IP as securities for loans)
• Secrecy agreements
• Protection of know-how
• Trade identity, including trademarks, trade names, trade dress, and Internet domain rights
• Copyright, design registrations, neighboring rights (e.g., phonograms), software, telecommunications
• Special IP rights such as plant varieties
• Interactions of IP with antitrust, public procurement, border controls, privacy rights, employment, tax law, and marketing approvals (drugs, biologics)