The Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property hosts the fifth annual fall conference October 12-13, 2017. This year’s conference is titled Real Intellectual Property Reform.
This unique conference will highlight how IP can work more effectively. IP has several jobs, all of them essential to flourishing individual lives and national economies. It secures investments in creative and inventive activity and careers, it is the foundation for the commercialization of innovation and creative works, and it helps to improve and enrich the lives of creators, inventors, and the public. While it serves these functions, it could always do better. Moreover, in recent years, there have been attempts by scholars, governments, and courts to “rein in” IP that have both intentionally and unintentionally made IP less effective.
Our conference will encourage and discuss proposals to make IP work more effectively. We will seek to understand how IP institutions could work better and serve their purposes more productively. As is the hallmark of all CPIP events, scholars, inventors, creators, and industry representatives will talk about the real world impact of and practicality of the ideas we discuss.
