IPLJ is proud to report that staffer Meredith Hatic has won second place in the New York State Bar Association Intellectual Property Law Section’s 2011 Annual Law Student Writing Competition! Meredith is a 2L at Fordham and is planning on pursuing a career in entertainment law upon graduation. Meredith’s paper examines whether and to what [...]

We are so proud to report that the IPLJ was recently cited in Justice Breyer’s dissenting opinion in Golan v. Holder, decided on January 18th! Check us out on page 10 of Justice Breyer’s opinion (page 55 of the document).  

In honor of the first Volume XXII release, the IPLJ will be hosting a party on Thursday, January 19th at 5:30 pm in the IPLJ office. Book 1 includes notes from Leah Feinman (Senior Articles Editor), Noah Hertz-Bunzl (Associate Editor), and Christian Levis (Associate Editor). All three will be there to briefly discuss their notes [...]

Be sure to save the date 11/11/11 for the IPLJ Symposium entitled “IP Bullying or Proactive Enforcement?” Where is the line drawn between fair and effective enforcement of intellectual property rights and so-called “bullying”? Stories of pugnacious patent-holding companies, combative copyright trolls, and threatening trademark enforcers abound in the news recently. Our esteemed panelists will [...]

IPLJ’s Business Editor, Amit R. Parikh, co-authored an article with Charles R. Macedo, a partner at Amster Rothstein & Ebenstein, and Jessica Capasso, an associate at Amster Rothstein & Ebenstein.  This article addresses a Supreme Court opinion that decides employees’ rights to inventions under the Bayh-Doyle Act.  The article examines the opinion in detail and notes [...]

We here at IPLJ are proud to share the impressive work of our former and current staff.  Read a recent contribution to this vast and ever-developing field by IPLJ’s former External Events Editor, Valentina Shenderovich. Find the fashion law article written for Sheppard Mullin here.    Thanks to Sasha Segall for the IPLJ Logo!

Notice anything different around here? With the help of the Tech Editor, Amy Dunayevich, I designed a logo for the IPLJ Blog in the style of old-school patent drawings. Although earlier drafts of the logo focused more on the “entertainment” element, we thought a logo with a looming spectral Lady Gaga head covered in animated [...]

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Hello IPLJ-ers and our blog readers!! You may notice some changes going on on our beloved blog. Please pardon our dust as we’re doing some remodeling. We hope this will make reading the IPLJ blog way more enjoyable, exciting, and another blog to add to your “procrastinating-doing-real-work” internet experience.

A new year, a new group of talented journal staff members. IPLJ wants to welcome all the new staff who will be hard at work keeping the journal running this year! Welcome! We are so excited to have you join the team. Readers, keep a look out for blog posts by our wonderful staff this [...]