Delighted to be back in New York and Washington DC this week.

Thank you to Kenneth Min and his Practising Law Institute (PLI) team for inviting me to convene and host the Global IP Spotlight series. The upcoming episode on AI regulation and copyright will feature Dr Stanley Lai, SC Lily Xue Dong Joshua G. Graubart Peter Yu and Matthias Leistner.

Thank you also to Hideaki Roy Umetsu Aruto Kagami Kohei Wachi of Mori Hamada & Matsumoto for your hospitality at your New York office and to Nahoko Ono for connecting us. Ono-sensei will be a panelist on an upcoming Global IP Spotlight episode on Japan. It was also great to be back at Fordham University School of Law and catch up with my former colleagues Darin Neely and Aisha Harper.

Finally but not least, thank you to Lisa Dunner for inviting me to attend the inaugural Donald R. Dunner Memorial Lecture and reception at The George Washington University Law School. I am grateful to Don for agreeing to serve as chair of the John Marshall Law School IP program’s advisory board and Lisa as a board member. Lisa and her sister Jennifer both earned their law degrees there. John Marshall is known today as the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law.

Also with Jenny Sue Dunner Joshua Sarnoff Patrick J. Coyne Nick Groombridge Naja Cherry,