Intellectual Property Owners Association

Join IPO on Thursday, May 28th in Frankfurt for a one-day conference organized by IPO's European Practice Committee. The 13th annual European Practice Committee conference includes sessions on AI tools for IP professionals; information sharing; update from recent EU IP files; claim construction; and doctrine of equivalents, waiver and estoppel. The conference includes presentations from in-house and outside counsel as well as experts from the courts.

Learn more or register now: www.ipo.org/euro26.
Registration is open to members and non-members.

Join IPO on March 18-19 in Washington, DC for the IPOwners Spring Summit™. Register now at www.ipo.org/spring2026.

The conference is designed for senior leaders with topics directly relevant to in-house attorneys while providing outside counsel information that will enhance relationship building and productivity with their corporate clients. Topics include: Damages and Injunctions, (Non?) Confidentiality of On-Sale Products, Strategies for Avoiding Disputes, Schedule A Litigation, Best Practices for Foreign Filing Requirements Around the World, Branding and Ownership in the Age of Generative AI, AI Meets the Fine Print, Difficult Decision-Making for Legal Leaders, and Intersection of AI and Intellectual Property Law.

Register or view the full program at www.ipo.org/spring2026.

Join the IP Chat Channel™ on Tuesday (January 27) for a webinar on "2025 Case Law Review," which will examine the major IP developments of the past year. Our panel includes Paul Berghoff (MBHB (McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP), Wendy Larson (Pirkey Barber PLLC), and Joshua L. Simmons (Kirkland & Ellis).

In trademarks, the panel will address how the Supreme Court’s decision in Dewberry provides fresh guidance on litigation strategy as it relates to damages recovery, how the Yuga Labs decision out of the 9th Circuit grappled with the Lanham Act’s application to new technologies, including when fair use concerns may be implicated, and Schedule A case trends.

In copyrights, the panel will discuss the Supreme Court’s forthcoming decision on secondary liability in Cox v. Sony, as well as decisions from this year concerning AI training, fair use, and the copyrightability of AI-assisted works. The panel also will examine early-stage trade secret disclosure requirements, possession versus ownership of a trade secret, and the state-of-the law of trade secret damages.

Finally, important cases in the patent space will be discussed, such as EcoFactor v. Google and Google v. Sonos, along with developing trends in IPRs, written description, and Section 101 eligibility.

IP Chat Channel™ webinars are free for IPO members. CLE credit is offered in most states. Register at webinars.ipo.org.