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NEWSLETTER ARCHIVE

Volume 56, Issue 4

President's Message

By Emily R. Whelan, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP

Dear Colleagues,

Welcome to our fall newsletter! We’ve had a busy fall as an organization. Among other interesting events, BIPLA was very pleased to welcome for our annual PCT seminar a distinguished delegation from WIPO: Lisa Jorgenson, Deputy Director General; Garrett Levin, Senior Policy Officer, IP and Frontier Technologies Division; Debbie Roenning, Director, Madrid Legal Division; Matthias Reischle-Park, Deputy Director, PCT Legal and User Relations Division; and Viviane Gross, Head, PCT International User Outreach and Support Section. We thank them for visiting us and for their very informative presentations.

We are excited to gather with many of you at our Annual Meeting on December 3 to conclude the year’s business and celebrate together. We look forward to hearing from our keynote speaker, Jack Cushman, Director of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab, who will address issues at the intersection of information science, AI, and the law.

We welcome everyone’s participation to help us continue BIPLA’s role in advancing intellectual property discourse and building community among intellectual property practitioners throughout the First Circuit. If you would like to get more involved, please consider serving as a committee co-chair for 2026 – volunteering now will allow consideration for openings in next year’s roster. Many thanks to the 2025 committee co-chairs, my fellow Board members, and Spencer Jawitz, our excellent Events & Communications Manager, for all of their efforts this year. And thank you to everyone who has attended and sponsored events this year for helping to keep our community vibrant.

I have appreciated the opportunity to serve as BIPLA President in 2025 and hope you will continue to reach out with questions or suggestions. You can reach me at president@bipla.org.

Emily R. Whelan President, Boston Intellectual Property Law Association