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Joined August 2009
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CIPU’s 9th IP Awareness Summit may have been the most relevant yet. AI + IP is happening now—and it’s reshaping industries, from creators to policymakers. 🎥 Follow us on YouTube for event highlights youtube.com/@thecenterforipu… #IPAS2026 #AI #IPrights
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🎙 S5 EP11 | Character licensing is a $370B industry… and most people don’t even realize they interact with it daily. New episode with David Bourne on how brands use iconic IP to drive emotional connection, sales & brand recognition. #Licensing #IP youtube.com/shorts/edAzWiw-I…
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Our 7th annual IP Awareness Summit, held in Evanston last week, was a huge success! There were 100 in the audience and another 40 on livestream. Thank you to all of our speakers and panelists for providing insightful commentary and engaging conversation to all of our attendees!
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2023 Intellectual Property Awareness Summit will be Held in Boston at Northeastern's Center for Research Innovation s.einnews.com/-eNi9uP7hH
Episode 2 of 'Understanding IP Matters' is out now Dan Brown guests on the 2nd episode of "Understanding IP Matters," the podcast that maps out how creatives can become entrepreneurs. Episode 2 is now streaming on all platforms. Listen here: buzzsprout.com/1537696/96464…
Bridges—Not Barricades. Check out our homepage to see a breakdown of how some of the most common household brand names such as @Nike, @Apple, and @LEGO_Group protect their IP rights. Only on ipbasics.org
Panel 3: "How can schools better teach students about intellectual property?" with James Conley (@KelloggSchool), Stephanie Couch (@LemelsonMIT), Steven Weiner (@SRI_Intl), Efrat Kasznik (@ForesightValue & @StanfordGSB). More info & register: lnkd.in/eJAtfSw @CenterforIP
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#Intellectualproperty & other experts explore Living with #COVID19: Identifying Developing & Sharing Work-Life Solutions, incl virus-related innovation, collaboration and #IPrights. 30 September, 1:30-4:00 EDT @BerkeleyHaas @CenterforIP @IPCloseUp Details:ipcloseup.com/2020/09/02/fre…
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IP Awareness Summit keynote, Talal Shamoon, CEO of Intertrust, says that we are entering into a new age of IP rights. "Education should be the focus of business as well as law." See IAM's timely article. bit.ly/2TESNZk
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Gary M. Lauder, Managing Director of Lauder Partners, Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm investing primarily in information technologies giving a Keynote speech on “The Roll [sic] of Patents in Corporate America”. #intellectualproperty #IPAS2020 – at Manhattan, NY
Thanks @CenterforIP @BerkeleyHaas for hosting a great day of conversations on #IP and inviting Dr. Michelson to share about the necessity of IP education for all #students!
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“Asia is starting to drive innovation. 60% of global IP applications are filed in Asia.” Andrew Yip, Director, IP Office of Singapore at IP Awareness Summit 2020 @CenterforIP
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“Four years ago, no US college had a full for-credit intellectual property course. Now 300 universities have them!” ... Dr Gary Michelson at the CIPU IPAwareness Summit just now. @Michelson20MM @CenterforIP
Matteo Sabattini, Director of IP Policy, @ericsson and Don Clark, Technology Contributor, @nytimes discussing the impact of new technology like 5G and AI 💡
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We are honored to kick off IPAS 2020 with a very special keynote, Dr. Gary K. Michelson, the most prolific inventor in the history of medicine. Dr. Michelson currently holds over 340 U.S. patents, and he has nearly 1,000 issued or pending patent applications throughout the world.
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Improving cooperation between US and China intellectual property professionals. @IPCloseUp
US-China IP Exchange & Development Foundation Established to share information and unite owners #China #patents ipcloseup.com/2020/01/08/us-…
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In her first interview since becoming Ericsson's new chief IP officer, Christina Petersson talks exclusively to IAM about the importance of listening to the market, the challenges of 5G licensing, her management style and diversity in IP deal-making. iam-media.com/frandseps/new-…
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One fraud receives patents. Tens of thousands of non-frauds receive millions of patents. What conclusion does @eff reach? Where are their stories about how "the system does live up to this ideal?"
The patent system is often explained as an exchange between inventors and the public. But the Theranos story reveals that the system fails to live up to this ideal, writes EFF's @danielnazer arstechnica.com/tech-policy/…
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