2024-2025 Center Events

International IP Practice Webinar

September 26, 2024
online

UIC Law Center for Intellectual Property, Information & Privacy Law proudly co-hosted the International Intellectual Property Practice with Kuhnen & Wacker and the World Intellectual Property Organization. The webinar provided valuable resources for legal professionals and students alike, providing insights into the latest legal trends and practices.

Organizers
  • Detlef von Ahsen, Partner, Kuknen & Wacker, Germany
  • Matthias Reischle-Park, Deputy Director & Head, PCT Legal Division, Patents & Technology Sector, WIPO, Switzerland
  • Dr. Christian Thomas, Partner, Kuhnen & Wacker, Germany
  • Yolanda M. King, Director and Associate Professor of Law, UIC Law
Sessions
  • Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) Update
  • Key Developments in International Trademark & Design Law
  • Unified Patent Court (UPC) – First Experience
  • Key Developments in Intellectual Property & AI (NEW)

Intellectual Property Law Careers Panel

Photo of the Careers Panel Students and Speakers

October 24, 2024

IP Rights and Wrongs: Advancing Social Justice and Ethics

Professor Yolanda M. King, UIC Law CIPIPL Director, & Brian Mueller, UIC Senior Pre-Law Advisor, co-hosted this Intellectual Property Law Careers panel event for UIC Pre-Law students to learn about highly specialized areas of Intellectual Property Law from a distinguished panel of leading Chicago attorneys.

Students learned the following:
  • What Intellectual Property law is
  • How to prepare for a career as an IP attorney
  • What it’s like to practice IP law
Featured Panelists:
  • Derris Banks, USPTO
  • Jomarie Fredericks, Rotary International
  • Jim Muraff, McDonald Hopkins
  • Joe Saltiel, Irwin IP)
68th Annual Intellectual Property, Information and Privacy Law Conference

November 8, 2023 

UIC Law Center for Intellectual Property, Information & Privacy Law proudly presented its 68th Annual Intellectual Property, Information and Privacy Law Conference. The Annual Conference provided an exceptional opportunity to meet with newsmakers and influencers, to learn and discuss the most exciting and important developments in the field, and to be empowered to help create better laws and policies that promote innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship. A mainstay in IP CLE programming, the conference is known for its highly interactive format.

Sessions included the following:
  • Patent Eligibility of Computer Implemented Inventions
  • The AI Regulations Landscape in the US, EU, and Latin America: Current Trends and Their Impact on Innovation and Privacy
  • AI Regulation on an International Scale and Human Rights Frameworks
  • Federal and State Privacy Developments in 2024
  • Trademark Law Developments
  • IP Licensing: Current Trends and Hot Topics
  • Into the Unknown: Navigating the Complexities of Litigating Emergent Abilities of AI
  • Diving Deep: The Case for Specialization in Security & Privacy Law
  • Trade Secret Law Developments
Special thanks to our Sponsors
  • McAndrews, Held & Malloy, Ltd. – Benefactor
  • Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd. – Patron
  • Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP – Gold
  • Quandary Peak Research – Bronze
  • Swanson, Martin & Bell LLP – Bronze
World Intellectual Property Day - Women in IP Panel

April 26, 2024
online

Women in Intellectual Property Law: Opportunities and Challenges

UIC Law’s Center for Intellectual Property, Information & Privacy Law was delighted to host the Women in Intellectual Property Law panel to commemorate World Intellectual Property Day on April 26, 2024. The panel highlighted opportunities and challenges facing women in the IP field.

Organizer
  • UIC Low Center for Intellectual Property, Information and Privacy Law
Speakers
  • Esther Lim, Partner and Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP, Moderator
  • Lisa Jorgenson, Deputy Director, Patents and Technology Sector, WIPO, Welcome Address
  • Fraline Allgaier, Principal Owner, Allgaier Patent Solutions, Panelist
  • Lisa Dunner, Trademark/Copyright Leader, Dunner Law/Raphael Bellum, Panelist
  • Sharon Israel, Chief Policy Officer and Director of International Affairs, USPTO, Panelist
  • Michele Katz, Founding Partner, Advitam IP, Panelist Yolanda M. King, UIC Law CIPIPL Director and Associate Professor, Remarks
Inaugural Information and Privacy Law Program

May 9, 2024 

The University of Illinois Chicago School of Law Center for Intellectual Property, Information and Privacy Law proudly presented the Inaugural Information and Privacy Law Program. The program consisted of three engaging panels that covered a broad range of hot topics, such as AI, BIPA, and online tracking.

Watch the Inaugural Information and Privacy Law Program