PIPLA Year-in-Review Meeting – May 28, 2019

TO ALL MEMBERS AND FRIENDS:

The Philadelphia Intellectual Property Law Association is holding its annual Year-in-Review meeting on Tuesday, May 28, 2019 at 3:30 pm.

Location:   BakerHostetler
                  Cira Centre, 12th Floor
                  2929 Arch Street
                  Philadelphia, PA 19104-2891            

3:30 PM:  Patent Ethics
                 John Simmons and Keith Jones, Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

4:30 PM:  Trademark and Copyright 
                 Lesley Grossberg and Lisa Bollinger Gehman, BakerHostetler

5:00 PM:  Patent Prosecution
                 Robert Leonard and Dawn Kerner, Volpe & Koenig, P.C.
                   
5:30 PM:  Supreme Court and Federal Circuit
                 Angie Verrecchio and John Wittenzellner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP

6:00 PM:    Elections             

The Articles of Association require yearly elections for positions on the Board of Governors.  Officer positions are filled annually and Members at Large positions are filled bi-annually.  In accordance with Article 4, notice is hereby given to the membership of the following slate of nominees submitted by the Nominating Committee (Jay Halt, Angela Verrecchio and Robin Quartin):

President                Steve Weed;
President-Elect    R Touhey Myer;
Vice-President    Lesley Grossberg;
Treasurer              Melissa Gibson;
 
Board Member        Lisa Bollinger Gehman (2019-2021); and
Board Member        Jessica Watkins (2019-2021).


As the immediate-past President, Felicity Groth will serve on the Board.

Joseph Boos (2018-2020) will continue to serve his two-year term as Secretary.

In addition the flowing Board members will continue their two-year terms.

 Board Member        Brian Auerbach (2018-2020);
 Board Member        Michael Cornelison (2018-2020); and
 Board Member        John Wittenzellner (2018-2020).

The 2019 PIPLA Distinguished Intellectual Property Practitioner Award will be presented at our September meeting


The cost is $40.00 for members and $50.00 for guests/non-members and $15.00 for students. Please make checks payable to “PIPLA.”  Two and one half hour of Pennsylvania and Delaware CLE credit has been requested.  

Please RSVP by May 21, 2019 by e-mail to pipla@bakerlaw.com or by mail to Nicole Buderacki, BakerHostetler, Cira Centre, 12th Floor, 2929 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-2891.