Delighted to be back in Washington, DC, for meetings on Capitol Hill, at the US Patent and Trademark Office, the US Copyright Office, and with stakeholders in practice and academia. Strong people-to-people ties help us collaborate on issues we care deeply about and better address common challenges.

First photo collage (clockwise): With Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property, U.S. Department of Commerce and USPTO Director, and Institute for Intellectual Property and Social Justice Founder Lateef Mtima; Shira Perlmutter Register of Copyrights, U.S. Copyright Office, Associate Register of Copyrights and Director of Policy and International Affairs Maria Strong; the Library of Congress, and the USPTO.

Second photo collage (clockwise): With Miriam Lord, Associate Register of Copyrights and Director of Public Information and Education; Michelle Nerozzi-Ankenbrand, US Senate Counsel Detailee; John Lee, Counsel at U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary; Cordelia (Dede) Zecher, Chief Advisor to the Under Secretary of Commerce for IP and Director of the USPTO, Grace Ramdat, Strategic Planning Program Manager and Prof. Mtima; Theodore Essex and Damon Lewis, partners at Hogan Lovells; and Jamie Simpson, Chief Counsel, House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, IP, and the Internet at U.S. House of Representatives.

Third photo collage (clockwise): With Prof. Mtima, Esther Lim, Partner & Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP; Reina Escoto USPTO; Brad Watts, Patents and Innovation Policy U.S. Chamber of Commerce Global Innovation Policy Center and Peter-Anthony Pappas, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary (Sen. Tillis); retired Capitol Subway System train model; view of the US Capitol from the Library of Congress; Professor Jay Thomas, Georgetown University Law Center.

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