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Message from the President Rebecca M. McNeill

Message from the Editor

KIPO Commissioner Insil Lee’s Visit to the BIPLA

USPTO Pro Bono Update

Members on the Move

BIPLA Third Annual Symposium

BIPLA and KAIPBA Joint Press Release

BIPLA Legislative Committee Panel

Patent Office Practice Committee Update

G2/21 – “Plausibility”: using post-published evidence in Europe

BIPLA Writing Competition

USPTO Recognizes 2022 Patent Pro Bono Achievement Certificate Recipients

A notice from the USPTO Patent Pro Bono Team

A notice from the Diversity & Inclusion Committee

Celebration in Honor of the Judiciary

List of Officers and Board of Governors

Job Listings

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2023 Ⓒ Boston Intellectual Property Law Association

NEWSLETTER ARCHIVE

Volume 54, Issue 2

BIPLA Writing Competition

We are now accepting entries!

1st Prize:$1,000

2nd Prize:$500

BIPLA is once again holding its annual Writing Competition. Law school students are encouraged to submit papers relating to topics involving intellectual property law. Judges will consider the merits of each paper based on: (i) contribution to knowledge respecting intellectual property law; and (ii) the extent to which it displays original and creative thought or information not previously published or available. The requirements for eligibility are outlined below.

Contest Rules

Articles must be written solely by a student or students either in full-time or part-time attendance at a law school (day or evening) within the jurisdiction of the First Federal Judiciary Circuit, or prepared in connection with a course at a law school in the First Circuit.
Articles must be written or published between September 1, 2022 and August 31, 2023.
Articles must be submitted to the Boston Intellectual Property Law Association on or before September 30, 2023.
Papers should be no more than the equivalent of ten (10) law review pages including footnotes (30-40 pages typed copy).
Submission of the paper as a .pdf file is required. Submissions must include the submitter’s name, current address, current telephone number, law school, and employment information (if applicable).

Please send all article submissions to:

Keith Wood Counsel Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds Keith.Wood@hbsr.com

Office: 617.607.5949