2024 Membership Dues Now Being Collected

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As a Member of CincyIP, you will enjoy access to discounted registration rates for our monthly CLE luncheons and for our annual Premier Conferences.  You will also receive our CincyIP newsletter!

Annual membership dues are an essential element of the budget that enable CincyIP to operate throughout the year and host CLE events of premium quality.  They help to bridge the gap between the programming costs that we incur and registration fees paid by attendees, and they ultimately allow us to provide you with engaging and educational events worthy of your valuable time and attention.

Our membership categories are as follows:

Active-Professional: $85 ($75 EARLY BIRD THROUGH FEBRUARY 1, 2024)
The majority of our Members are legal practitioners in private practice or corporate environments and fall within the “Active-Professional” category.

Active-Academic: $55 ($45 EARLY BIRD THROUGH FEBRUARY 1, 2024)
We recognize that law professors and similar academics may not receive reimbursement for their registration fees through their employer, and thus we reserve a discounted “Active-Academic” category for these individuals.

Associate-Professional: $55 ($45 EARLY BIRD THROUGH FEBRUARY 1, 2024)
This category encompasses non-lawyer individuals such as interested business persons, patent agents, paralegals, legal assistants, etc.

Honorary/Student: $5
This category encompasses Judges, other distinguished persons, and students.  Please note that this category of membership does not carry voting rights.

If you have questions regarding which category of membership you qualify for, please contact us at president@cincyip.org.

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Supreme Court and Federal Circuit Review – Intellectual Property

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Please register to join us IN-PERSON on July 16th, 2024, for our next event. We are excited to offer this in-person event as FREE, a special rate to kickstart our in-person meetings. We anticipate 1.00 General CLE credit in Ohio. This event is capped at 40 registrants.

Matthew Molloy
Oleg Khariton

Our presenters will be Matt Molloy and Oleg Khariton, both from Dinsmore & Shohl, presenting on recent Supreme Court and Federal Circuit cases to give insights and guidance for both litigators and prosecutors.

Registration and lunch will begin at 11:30 am, with the presentation at 12 pm.

Registration closes 5 pm Friday, July 12.

Registration is:

  • free for CincyIP members,
  • free for students and academics, and
  • free for non-members.

Register here by Friday, July 12, 2024, at 5 pm.

Professional Responsibility and Practice Before the USPTO

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Please register to join us on May 14, 2024, for our next webinar. We anticipate 1.00 Attorney Professional Conduct CLE credit in Ohio for this event.

Our speaker will be Dahlia Girgis (USPTO’s Office of Enrollment and Discipline).

This presentation will cover aspects of professional responsibility and practice before the USPTO and related ethical matters including enrollment, Design Patent Practitioner Bar, AI, Discipline and investigation processes, Ethics scenarios, Signature requirements, and MORE.

This event will be held by webinar. Registration closes 5 pm Friday, May 10.

Registration is:

  • free for CincyIP members,
  • free for students and academics, and
  • $15.00 for non-members.

Register here by Friday, May 10, 2024, at 5 pm.

Patent Pro Bono Opportunities and IP Education Toolkit

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Please join us on Tuesday, April 16, 2024, for our next Webinar event. This month’s Webinar will be held from 12:00 to 1:15 pm. Our speaker will discuss the considerations IP practitioners should take when dealing with Patent Pro Bono opportunities (USPTO and Ohio Invents) and educating the next generation of inventors and practitioners (Geof Oberhaus).

As patent practitioners, we are uniquely positioned to help financially under-resourced inventors and small businesses file and prosecute patent applications. Learn how you can help those who could not otherwise afford to do so engage in our innovation economy.

During the second part of the presentation learn about the tools and resources available for educating and exciting middle and high school students about IP rights (e.g., patent, trademark, copyright). The IP education toolkit is meant to complement existing Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math (STEAM) curriculums to educate students about the importance of IP and how IP could affect their personal lives and career journeys. Learn how you can be a part of the goal to educate students about IP to empower the next generation of innovators, IP professionals, or simply IP-aware students.

The webinar event will be approximately 60 minutes.

Registration is:

  • free for CincyIP members,
  • free for students and academics, and
  • $15.00 for non-members.

Register here by Thursday, April 11, 2024, at 5 pm.