Be sure to save the date for our annual Stampede!

This year’s event will be on Tuesday, April 23, 2019.

We will again be at the Radisson Blu hotel

More information will be coming soon, including registration!

A great time was had by all at the 2018 MIPLA Holiday Happy Hour.

We’re pleased to report that $1,375 (including a donation from MIPLA) was raised on behalf of the Volunteer Lawyers Network.

Thanks to everyone attended the November 1^st Copyright and Trademark CLE and further thanks to Kirsten Donaldson and Carrie Hefte for presenting!

All MIPLA members are encouraged to attend our fall social at Psycho Suzi’s Motor Lounge in Northeast Minneapolis. The weather’s cooling off but that doesn’t mean we can’t pretend to be in a Polynesian paradise with the assistance of a few tiki drinks in the “Shangri-La Lounge”.

Who: MIPLA members
What: Food, drinks and friends
When: Thursday, October 25, 2018 from 5-8pm
Where:
Psycho Suzi’s Motor Lounge, Shangri-La Lounge
900 Marshall St NE
Minneapolis, MN 55418
(parking is free in their lot and on Marshall Street)

You’re invited to join the Mitchell Hamline School of Law Intellectual Property Institute and the Women in Intellectual Property Law Association (WIPLA) section of MIPLA for a networking reception.

Wednesday, July 18, 2018, 5-7 pm

Du Nord Craft Spirits
2610 East 32nd Street
Minneapolis, MN 55406

MIPLA and Dykema had a great Meet the Firm event on Thursday, May 17!

                     2018 MIPLA Stampede

The 2018 MIPLA Stampede was held on May 10, 2018.  The event was a success; thank you to those who presented and to those who attended the event!

The schedule for the 2018 MIPLA Stampede can be found by clicking here.

The 2018 MIPLA Stampede Faculty list can be found here.

Presentations:

• 2018 Litigation Year in Review
• Implicit Bias Discussion Slides
• Open Source
• Sponsored Research and Technology Transfer

The 2018 MWL Conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Minneapolis (1300 Nicollet Mall) and will feature a full day of CLE programming, geared towards the diverse practice areas and experience levels represented by MWL’s membership. 

MWL is honored to welcome morning keynote speaker Michele Coleman Mayes, Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary for the New York Public Library and past Chair of the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession from 2014-2017.  The 2018 MWL Conference will also incorporate MWL’s 46th Annual Meeting as a luncheon program.  To conclude the day MWL is pleased to present an interactive workshop led by Toni Halleen, COO and Co-Owner of Schaefer Halleen, entitled: “Say Yes to Diversity! What Improv can Teach Us About Embracing the ‘Big Tent’”.

On April 24, MIPLA held its annual curling event at the St. Paul Curling Club!

Sweepers Ready!
 

An aerial view of the sheets


Match in progress


Our resident curling experts

 

Here comes the rock!

11:30 am – 4:30 pm, Room 325 and live webcast, Mitchell Hamline School of Law
Approval pending for 3.75 CLE credits

Schedule

11:30 am: Registration, networking, lunch

12 pm: Welcome with Professor Sharon K. Sandeen

12:10 – 1:30 pm: Cybaris, an IP Law Review Presentation—The Coming Dearth of Patent Lawyers: What can/should be done?

• Professor Wissam Aoun, Detroit Mercy School of Law
• Lucas Hjelle, Patent Attorney, Schwegman Lundberg Woessner
• Molly Littman, Associate, Gray Plant Mooty
• Professor Ken Port, Mitchell Hamline School of Law

1:40 – 3 pm: A Year in Review and Coming Attractions

• Braden Katterheinrich, Faegre Baker Daniels LLP
• Alan Koenck, Kinney & Lang
• Kelsey Thorkelson, Robins Kaplan
• Moderator:  Amanda Mangan, Johnson, Killen & Seiler

3:10 – 4:30 pm: Oil States and the Future of Inter Partes Reviews

• Rachel C. Hughey, Merchant & Gould
• Cyrus Morton, Robins Kaplan
• James Smith, Ecolab
• Moderator: Katy Boyle, Pauly DeVries Smith Deffner

4:30 – 6 pm: Reception