Please join me in learning more about nonfungible tokens (NFTs) and copyright and entitlement to priority in Europe. We also have a very entertaining article on how to present a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day for your life sciences startup and an article on multiple after final strategies for patent prosecution.

This issue also includes an article on mindfulness and stress, an update from the ad hoc Committee on Diversity and Inclusion, and the BPLA’s Comments on the National Strategy for Expanding American Innovation, and event updates from the Medical Device Committee and the Patent Office Practice Committee.

I would like to thank BPLA’s administrator, Constance Brennan, and the staff of Readz for their help in preparing this newsletter. If you have suggestions, requests, or submissions for a future issue, please feel free to reach out to me at vice.president@bpla.org.

The future for our community looks bright. The USPTO is studying how to promote diversity in inventors and within the patent bar, Judge Kimberly Moore will assume the role of chief judge of the Federal Circuit on May 22nd, replacing Chief Judge Sharon Prost, and President Biden has nominated Ms. Tiffany Cunningham, a patent litigation partner at Perkins Coie in Chicago, to the Federal Circuit. We are glad to keep in touch with you through virtual programming and this newsletter, but we look forward to a return to in person programing.