IPPro The Annual 2018/19
The beating heart of the world is reaching new heights in innovation, with technology coming to the forefront in 2018 as an enabler of efficiency and automation. In the intellectual property industry, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and blockchain are beginning to shape the burgeoning technology services landscape, and exciting opportunities for both inventors and law firms alike are beginning to present themselves. However recent regulation, such as the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation has drawn a line in the sand for enforcers, resulting in far-reaching consequences across continents, and leaving brands open to attacks from those wanting to hide behind anonymity on the internet. All this, and more, is discussed inside IPPro: The Annual, which features comment and analysis from the world’s leading IP associations. We hope you like its new coat of paint and, as ever, if you have any feedback or suggestions, don’t hesitate to get in touch.
The beating heart of the world is reaching new heights in innovation, with technology coming to the forefront in 2018 as an enabler of efficiency and automation.
In the intellectual property industry, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and blockchain are beginning to shape the burgeoning technology services landscape, and exciting opportunities for both inventors and law firms alike are beginning to present themselves.
However recent regulation, such as the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation has drawn a line in the sand for enforcers, resulting in far-reaching consequences across continents, and leaving brands open to attacks from those wanting to hide behind anonymity on the internet.
All this, and more, is discussed inside IPPro: The Annual, which features comment and analysis from the world’s leading IP associations. We hope you like its new coat of paint and, as ever, if you have any feedback or suggestions, don’t hesitate to get in touch.
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AIPLA · Feature<br />
Furthermore, website users will soon notice something<br />
different at www.aipla.org. We are in the process of making<br />
some dramatic improvements to our website and want to<br />
thank members for their input to provide an even more userfriendly<br />
interface. We will make it easier to access the items<br />
you need, while making it more fun and intuitive to keep you<br />
updated on news, advocacy, and our events. <strong>The</strong> website<br />
will better share who we are and what we do. We have also<br />
added features to improve the content, look and availability<br />
of our website on a variety of devices because we know that<br />
is how our members work. <strong>The</strong> website is streamlined and<br />
improved to allow easier navigation. Finally, we’ve added<br />
some personalisation elements so that each user can see and<br />
discover what matters to them most.<br />
This summer we also launched AIPLA INNOVATE, a<br />
special compendium of articles written by and for AIPLA<br />
members. Designed as an online publication, INNOVATE<br />
features magazine-like articles on a wide variety of<br />
topics in IP law today.<br />
Going local: public outreach and<br />
networking initiatives<br />
This holistic approach has further led us to incorporate<br />
several innovations to our existing offerings, such as new<br />
and expanded networking opportunities outside of our<br />
stated meetings. AIPLA is a community of practitioners,<br />
and despite advances that allow us to receive<br />
educational offerings remotely, I believe that there will<br />
always be a desire for those practitioners to meet and<br />
engage with one another. But budgets can be tight and<br />
time short, so an important goal for the organisation is to<br />
bolster our outreach and encourage AIPLA participation<br />
at the local level.<br />
<strong>The</strong> association has made local networking opportunities more<br />
plentiful by supporting our existing committees in their efforts<br />
to expand their offerings of local events.<br />
We have bolstered our relationships with local IP<br />
associations across the country, and we have travelled<br />
regionally to visit law firms and companies to learn how<br />
AIPLA can better serve our members.<br />
On 11 April <strong>2018</strong>, AIPLA joined forces with the US<br />
Chamber of Commerce in Washington DC to present the<br />
programme ‘Investing in American Innovation: Is the US<br />
Patent Environment Promoting or Limiting Investment?’ Iancu<br />
featured as keynote speaker and maintained that the dialogue<br />
on the IP system should focus on the remarkable and lifechanging<br />
innovations attributable to our US system rather than<br />
on flaws or abuses in the patent system.<br />
On 26 April <strong>2018</strong>, in celebration of World IP Day, AIPLA’s<br />
Public Education Committee organised more than 14<br />
programmes in 14 different cities around the US, including<br />
an event at the USPTO and a celebration on Capitol Hill. This<br />
year’s theme, ‘Powering Change: Women in Innovation and<br />
Creativity’, recognised the significant contributions of women<br />
in the field of innovation and creativity.<br />
I have personally taken part in many events at AIPLA that<br />
promote networking across our membership and that<br />
support a variety of demographics. We want to make sure<br />
that travel is not a prerequisite for member satisfaction in this<br />
organisation. In addition to the local events discussed above,<br />
AIPLA offers world-class education at your desktop, and later<br />
this year we are implementing our first-ever virtual career fair.<br />
All these initiatives are to improve efforts of bringing AIPLA to<br />
our members.<br />
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