IIPSJ IP Empowerment Summit

Ray Millien, Program Coodinator

A draft program schedule has been posted.

Moving Forward

In Summer or Fall 2009, IIPSJ is sponsoring an all-day event entitled: “A Call to Serve: An Intellectual Property Empowerment Summit,” to be held in Washington, DC on the campus of the Howard University School of Law. The Summit will be sponsored by the Institute of Intellectual Property and Social Justice in conjunction with other sponsors to be announced.

Why: The Civil Rights Movement was not only about achieving civil and political rights, but also about achieving economic equality for African Americans and others marginalized by our political and economic system. In today’s knowledge-based economy, economic power is often tied to and significantly dependent upon intellectual property. Consequently, IP attorneys (especially minority IP attorneys) can and should take the lead in empowering minority and other marginalized communities to compete and attain a stake in the 21st-century economy.

What: The one-day Summit will bring together patent, trademark and copyright attorneys and other professionals to meet, discuss, learn, and network about how we can: (1) diversify the IP field; (2) empower minority and other marginalized communities using IP as a vehicle; and (3) share best practices in an effort to further our careers to place us in a position to effectuate change. The Summit faculty will feature leading jurists, scholars, community leaders and entrepreneurs who will present practical solutions to meeting the skills training, job creation and IP law-recognition needs that members of our communities require to be competitive in the 21st century.

For more information see our expanded IP Empowerment Summit page.

To contact the summit coodinator, please email Ray Millien at rmillien@iipsj.org with your name, title, company and contact information. (Or you may simply attach your vCard.)