Our International IP Practice Seminar is happening next month. Hope to see you there! https://bit.ly/3tqofe9 Our International IP Practice Seminar is a one-day, comprehensive CLE program that brings together seasoned experts to provide instruction on the issues of contemporary significance covering patents, trademarks, and design rights. Speakers include senior representatives from WIPO, regional and national IP offices, multinational corporations, and law firms from key jurisdictions worldwide. The event is presented on an innovative virtual platform offering an immersive CLE and networking experience.

I'm pleased to announce that the session descriptions for our 65th Annual IP Conference are now available: https://ipconference.law.uic.edu/schedule-2/ Modeled after the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos and the Annual Fordham IP Conference in New York, the conference features highly interactive sessions with newsmakers in the IP, privacy, and technology communities. In addition, the conference features sixteen sessions with more than ninety expert faculty from government, civil society organizations, companies, law firms, and academia. This year’s conference expands on the success of last year’s virtual setting to offer two full days of interactive discussions involving the audience and virtual networking opportunities with speakers. In addition, the conference’s virtual platform provides attendees the same seamless transition between sessions for which the conference has become known. Our program is unique in combining forward-thinking IP legal and innovation issues from across the spectrum with an immersive format where newsmakers in intellectual property, technology, and privacy engage in a moderated discussion with each other and with the audience. At a time when conferences may consist of little more than timed speeches and where attendees sit behind a screen as passive viewers, ours stands apart. Hope to see you there!

Looking forward to joining Douglas Clark, Mark Cohen, Danny Friedmann, Peter Ganea, Jyh-an Lee, Yahong Li, and Peter Yu to discuss the rapid evolution of China's IP system over 40 years and its dramatic consequences for world trade, innovation and the global IP system. This event is free and open to the public. https://www.law.berkeley.edu/research/bclt/bcltevents/book-talk-intellectual-property-law-in-china-2nd-ed/ University of California, Berkeley - School of Law University of Illinois Chicago School of Law Texas A&M University School of Law School of Law, City University of Hong Kong HKU Law Rouse Peking University School of Transnational Law Tongji University